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The Academic Heights
… Any Massachusetts Hall presidential transition—like the current one from Drew Gilpin Faust to Lawrence S. Bacow … to the age that is waiting before? So the arrival of An Academic Life is fortuitous and timely. The memoir of Hanna Holborn Gray extends from her youth and development …
Issue: May-June 2018
Closed Doors
… Universities customarily are open places. There is security where required (dorms, labs, libraries and … to the institutions’ openness: to discourse, the exchange of ideas, and the serendipitous meetings that pull back the … and engaging; persuading; and being persuaded—is on the rise on issues internal to the University. To cite a few: • …
Issue: March-April 2020
The “Other” Cambridge
… The Cambridge across the pond is somehow familiar to me, … that it would be preserved perfectly just for me—like one of those restored, “working” New England towns where you can take pictures of colonial women churning butter. It would be peculiarly …
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
Diversifying the Faculties
… A decade ago , more than two-thirds of tenured professors and nearly one-half of tenure-track professors at Harvard were white men. Since then, the composition of the faculty has evolved …
Issue: July-August 2017
Sonnets and the Stage
… In 1990, Shakespeare & Company, the distinguished theatrical ensemble in Lenox, Massachusetts, had a problem: the departure of co-founder Kristin Linklater three months before the … them to actors maybe as much as anybody—and so the act of teaching the sonnets is in itself a kind of artistic …
Issue: January-February 2012
On the Career Carousel
… applied for an internship at Harvard’s American Repertory Theatre, and to the master’s program in lighting design at … oh, she’d also like to work with kids. “I’m not the kind of person who doesn’t know what she wants to do,” she … that OCS would want to help them, but were happily surprised. “In some ways they saved the event during the last …
Issue: May-June 2008
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
The SIGnboard: SIG Snapshot
… Among the almost 50 Shared Interest Groups (SIGs) of the Harvard … and Urban Society_Alumni (HAUS_A), a group from “all fields of work and study” who seek “to make a difference in the …
Issue: January-February 2014
The Self-Made Mindset
… Sharma '99 enrolled at Harvard a generation apart, but the two authors offer the same advice to anyone looking to a launch a … can do everything right and still fail," says Bodde, author of The Intentional Entrepreneur and a senior fellow at the …
Issue: September-October 2004
A Conversation with Mia Alvar ’00
… short story by Mia Alvar ’00. Soon enough, he learns—as all the characters of her book, In The Country, do—that love costs. Alvar’s … around who Ninoy Aquino was, his assassination, and the rise of the opposition movement, tend to become very …
Harvard College Class of 2019 Admissions and Term Bill
… College announced today that 1,990 students have been offered admission to the class of 2019 ( including the 977 previously notified … fact that more men than women applied. Asian Americans comprise 21 percent of the admitted students, Latinos 13.3 …
Fiscal Portrait
… The University’s annual financial report for fiscal year … percent, to $4.25 billion; and, therefore, a wider deficit of $34 million (compared to a negligible deficit in fiscal … health benefits. That change reflects the recent rise in interest rates, different assumptions about future …
Issue: January-February 2014
Behind the Scenes: Vita
… Vita debuted in the January-February 1977 issue of Harvard Magazine , a … should be better known, or to reveal little-known facets of well-known figures. The rules were simple: either subject …