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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
Timely Recovery
… (HMC) reported a 7.3 percent return on endowment assets for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020. The endowment’s value … stimulus programs prompted sharp recoveries), HMC’s rate of return, which is net of all investment expenses, actually … Until then, the factors contributing to the 2.4 percent rise in the endowment’s value cannot be known exactly. But a …
Issue: November-December 2020
Exclusivity, from the Inside
… I was the kind of kid who would actually respond to the mass email … incoming freshman class. I didn’t realize he was the kind of dean who would reply, asking to meet me. At the time, I … in this organization. As a comper I would have been surprised to learn how fervently the Advocate tries to make its …
Issue: May-June 2017
Endowment Outlook: Less Robust Results?
… financial managers this month will begin reporting their endowments’ investment results for fiscal year 2012, … from the sharp losses incurred during the financial crises of late 2008 and early 2009—will not be repeated in the most …
Changes at the Tap
… If “fresh hot dog” sounds like an oxymoron, taste the one at Green Street. It’s as close to the tender pig as … is that gritty vibrancy, that rare and lively mingling of local folks, artists, and pols of all sizes, shapes, and colors that made the old grill so …
Issue: July-August 2007
Reflecting on “The Great War at 100”
… Calling it “an abyss of blood and darkness,” Henry James responded bleakly to the First World War, said historian and Harvard president Drew Faust. It disabused the novelist of his optimism about “the whole long age during which we …
Meet the 2011 Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal , first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
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
Back, but Not to the U.S.S.R.
… On the sweltering afternoon of July 8, more than 100 onlookers … to ring out over Cambridge. … On the sweltering afternoon of July 8, more than 100 onlookers crowded Winthrop Street …
Issue: September-October 2008
The “Talking Feds” Podcast
… During the tumultuous Trump presidency, Los Angeles Times legal … had played in Watergate,” he explained. “There was a lot of interest in their supposedly specialized knowledge.” … 2019. The weekly show—which ranks in the top 1 percent of all podcasts—welcomes a rotating cast of expert guests to …
The Renovated Harvard Coop
… in a Boston Globe op-ed, Joan Wickersham declared that “the renovated Coop is an embarrassment and a travesty,” … college textbook business during the past decade. “Sales of textbooks and trade books are supported by sales of higher-margin merchandise,” said Coop president Jerry …
An Opening-of-Year Conversation with Drew Faust
… In a conversation to open the new academic year, President Drew Faust spoke at Sanders … Prize-winning New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof ’82 (who is also a current member of the University’s Board of Overseers). They touched on …
“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 …
Much Bigger Than the Police
… at present, is trapped in an intractable dilemma caused by the gap between a just society and the one we inhabit,” said Harvard political theorist Brandon Terry, leading off a Radcliffe Institute online conversation Monday … policing and protest. His sentiment set the tone. For much of the next hour, Terry and two other speakers—Princeton …
Harvard Invests in MIT’s The Engine
… MIT-created venture firm The Engine, which aims to provide capital required to tackle … committed as a limited partner after launching the enterprise in October 2016 . Rather than seeking to fund … time and patient capital to commercialize—in a range of sectors including biotechnology, robotics, manufacturing, …