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Down by the Riverside: A Progress Report
… The garden center that leases a 2.3-acre piece of Cambridge riverfront from Harvard is bringing out its flats of marigolds and petunias for another season, while …
Post-Regulatory School Reform
… At the turn of the twenty-first century, the United States was … a solid legislative footing. Political opposition began to rise against two of the waivers’ key recommendations: … and in competition among them. Private initiative and enterprise would quicken the pace of progress in this area as it …
Issue: September-October 2016
History from Below
… said historian Vince Brown last year , is a perpetual state of war. He was quoting the formerly enslaved eighteenth-century British … colonial empires were created through vast networks of war and conquest, which created the displaced Africans …
Issue: March-April 2020
Harvard’s Financial Outlook
… The University ’s severely challenging academic year —marked … divided over the Middle East war, an abrupt change of presidents, a pro-Palestinian encampment that spawned … expenses, has accelerated as use of medical services has risen and hospitals have had to pay their own large staffs …
Cambridge 02138
… Understanding Sleep Your readers should know something of what was left out of “ Deep into Sleep ,” by Craig Lambert (May-June, page 25). I will cite only two egregious errors. The article states, “Even 20 years ago, ‘The dominant …
Issue: September-October 2005
“History in the Making Was Screaming From the Headlines Every Day”
… I entered Harvard in the fall of 1917 to find that classes were melting away daily in the heat of the conflagration overseas. Talk of war and the …
News from the HAA
… Applauded Established in 1990, the Harvard Alumni Association Awards recognize alumni who … will be honored on October 25 during the opening dinner of the annual fall meeting of the HAA board of directors. Christopher Bayley …
Issue: September-October 2001
The Prodigal Doctor Returns
… " O my God —this is the end of civilization as we know it." Such was the reaction of a physician friend of Stephen Bergman '66, M.D. '73, on …
Jeremy Lin ’10 Makes Cover of “Sports Illustrated”
… Jeremy Lin ’10, the New York Knicks point guard recently promoted to a … taken the National Basketball Association by storm. Lin, profiled in Harvard Magazine as an undergraduate, is slated to appear on the cover of the next issue of Sports Illustrated. Here are some …
Off the Shelf
… Progress and Confusion: The State of Macroeconomic Policy , edited by Olivier J. Blanchard, Raghuram G. Rajan, Kenneth S. Rogoff, Cabot professor of public policy, and Lawrence H. …
Issue: September-October 2016
How the Endowment Distribution Is Set
… The news that the value of the Harvard endowment declined by … support financial aid, professorships, and so on—have risen to even larger sums annually. This example puts those … it followed a year in which the endowment distribution had risen, because the percentage-point change in the funds they …
National Academy of Sciences Elects Harvard Faculty Members
… The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates , among them …
A Ministry of Presence
… at exactly 3 o’clock, a small white van emerged from the swirl of traffic in Harvard Square and pulled over next to the … their long brown robes—and began setting up a temporary coffee and hot-chocolate stand at the back of the vehicle, …
Karl May
… The most popular German author most Americans have never heard of is Karl May, whose adventure novels have sold more than … novels with allegorical speculations about humanity’s rise from evil to good. In the spring of 1912, shortly …
Issue: March-April 2020
A Controversial Critique of Teaching and Learning at Harvard
… Education (a London-based magazine), Summers discusses the six years he spent teaching and advising Harvard … He casts his students as "the post-pubescent children of notables," and writes that they "had already embraced the perspectives of the rich, the powerful and the unalienated, and they …