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Reunion on the Road
… Earlier this year, Earl and Paula Bracker of Cambridge marked their seventieth birthdays, organized a three-generation … people—to Tanzania for a reunion. Courtesy of the Bracker family The Brackers took 26 people — …
Issue: November-December 2004
Change at the Top
… Philip W. Lovejoy, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) since July 2014, will retire at the end of this year, concluding a quarter-century of Harvard …
Issue: May-June 2022
The Deadliest Virus
… Bird flu (H5N1) has receded from international headlines for the moment, as few human cases of the deadly virus have been reported this year. But when … recently created an even more transmissible strain of the virus in a laboratory for research purposes, they …
Issue: March-April 2013
Comings and Goings
… University clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events, including Harvard-affiliated speakers (please see the partial list below). For further information, contact … gathers to learn about “Petroleum, Putin, Power, and the Rise of the New Russia” from Marshall Goldman, Davis …
Issue: May-June 2008
The Forty-Year Fight
… program,” says Itzel Vasquez-Rodriguez ’17. She dreamed of pursuing Chicano studies in college, and says she was … learn that Harvard not only doesn’t have Chicano studies, they don’t even have an ethnic-studies department!” She … students in 1968. These protests led to the establishment of such programs at most schools in the UC system, and …
The Corporation’s 360-Year Tune-Up
… The Harvard Corporation’s self-review of its operations and … through the new joint committee, which will comprise Fellows, Overseers, and “selected others.” • Strategic …
Issue: January-February 2011
How to Cook a Thesis
… wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." The senior thesis, a big chunk of original work, is the culmination of the honors track in … in the early 1900s into her mental oven, but it failed to rise. Instead, she turned to the vast cookbook collection at …
Issue: January-February 2005
The Case for Compromise
… American voters hold their elected officials, collectively, in low regard, even … always been challenging. It becomes harder still with the rise of the permanent campaign. The relentless pressures of …
Issue: July-August 2012
News in Brief
… Provost Manning On August 15, less than two weeks after the Corporation removed “interim” from his title, President … in Massachusetts Hall is in place through the planned end of Garber’s service in June 2027. Alongside the provost’s … new home for that large department, scheduled to rise behind Littauer Center—may begin this fall, with …
Issue: November-December 2024
Fifty Things to Do While YouÌre Here
… Time doesn't stand still in Harvard Square, as the past and present views east (left, in 1956 and today) … photographs by Rose Lincoln Historical Photographs courtesy of the Harvard University Archives Upwards of 30,000 people … Catch up with your old nemesis and call for a truce. 44. Rise early for fresh pastries and hot coffee in the …
Memorial Church Gets a New Set of Pipes
… Curious tourists peeking through the open doors of Memorial Church this summer will see neat stacks of lumber and many, many pipes. They won’t see churchgoers; …
The Divestment Debate
… Advocates of divesting Harvard’s endowment investments in the fossil-fuel industry —part of a movement urging such … this as a pass on other things.” … The temperature rises as students, faculty members, and administrators …
Issue: July-August 2014
Solzhenitsyn in My Inbox
… It was in Cyrillic. My first thought was spam…delete. Then I read the message, in flawless English: Dear Ms. … an article about his speech. I never doubted that it had profoundly influenced the course of my life, but was it possible that I had made an impact …
Up in the Air and Killing
… Here on the volleyball court we find deceit. Right now the ball is … Though Jellin nods in seeming acquiescence, instead she lofts the ball above Hart to the far sideline, where … the net onto the hardwood floor. Point to Harvard. Two of the opponents' blockers, fixated on stopping Hart, had …
Comings and Goings
… Harvard clubs around the country offer a variety of social and intellectual … Marshall Goldman (“Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the Rise of the New Russia”); and Robinson professor of music …
Issue: November-December 2008