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Photos in Thread
… From a distance, they look like framed four-by-six-inch color photographs of landscapes and still-life subjects—salt marshes, … and fabric art. Behar begins each piece by printing one of her own photographs on cotton broadcloth. Then, with …
Issue: November-December 2008
The Frelinghuysen Morris House
… The following text is a sidebar to " Modern and Historic ," … L.K. Morris were prolific abstract artists at the forefront of the American art scene, starting in the 1930s. Known as … stucco home with their own animated frescoes and the works of cohorts A.E. Gallatin and Charles Shaw, as well as …
Issue: September-October 2007
Literature and the Environment
… The arts and humanities have potentially crucial contributions to make toward full understanding of the multiple, accelerating environmental challenges … facing the world today. To take a simple example from one of modern environmentalism’s comparative success stories: …
Issue: September-October 2011
Harvard in Drag: The Collected Works
… In the bowels of the Hasty Pudding building at 12 Holyoke Street, a clubhouse … cell made glorious by its inhabitants--the costumes of Harvard men in drag from years and years of Hasty Pudding …
Issue: March-April 2002
Harvard Kennedy School Dean Elmendorf to Step Down
… Douglas W. Elmendorf , dean of the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) since January 2016 , … faculty. His expertise may be much in demand, as concerns rise about the size of the federal deficit and debt, and the …
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
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
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
Six Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences
… Among the 72 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences are these Harvard faculty members: Gary …
The Next Chapter
… York City, Daniel and Elizabeth Rowe made an unlikely leap: They moved to a 55-acre farm in the foothills of New Hampshire's White Mountains, where they've turned … autographs, into a thriving business. Franklin A. Reece '68 of Cambridge spent 35 years as a high-powered entrepreneur, …
Issue: January-February 2004
Grandparenting Guide
… Olivia Gentile ’96 launched The Grandparent Effect ( http://grandparenteffect.com ) this … special occasions and holidays, but “I think they were kind of enjoying retirement and didn’t really want to hang out … the media as a whole is doing a great job of covering the ‘Rise of the Grandparent,’ as I call it,” she explains. With …
Issue: July-August 2015
Meet the New Marshal
… attended so many Commencements that she can almost recite the script by heart. But this year's ceremony will bring a … share the honors.) As marshal, O'Neill will serve as master of ceremonies for the morning exercises, speaking some lines … she'll open the event by formally imploring the sheriff of Middlesex County, "Pray give us order." (According to The …
Issue: May-June 2004
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
Dues to the Past
… MCMLVI masks. For their sixty-fifth reunion, whatever form it may take, members of the College class of 1956 conceived of a custom mask subtly emblazoned with a …
Issue: March-April 2021
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 …