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The Socially Acceptable Bohemian
… Tickets are a stiff $40 apiece, but the Sit ’n’ Bull Pub in Maynard, Massachusetts, is full. … stage, halfway between a barroom dartboard and a string of iridescent red plastic peppers. The Sit ’n’ Bull looks … from his celebrated, sold-out Boston Symphony Hall concerts of the 1980s. But Rush is equally comfortable in any setting …
Issue: November-December 2007
Off the Shelf
… George Feifer ’56 (Smithsonian Books, $25.95). Commodore Matthew Perry, with his four American warships, pried open a sovereign country in the name of free trade. Among the unintended consequences of that wallop to Japanese self-esteem, Feifer argues, was …
Issue: March-April 2007
Harvard Finances: Strengths and Warning Signs
… The University’s financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2017 , released this morning, was full of the sorts of results that make budget officers happy: … through the most recent year, the annual distribution has risen $370 million (26 percent), outpacing the 22 percent …
The Expos Problem
… Janet Rosenbaum '98 was one of the most successful students of her year in the College's … good and bad writing. Dudley Hershbach recalls his surprise at learning that one of his teaching fellows instructed …
Music, Noted
… “But we don’t have recordings from back then, do we?” We all have our own version of the stupidest question people might ask when they find … music, from the ninth century onward. At this point, some of my collocutors’ eyes glaze over because musical notation …
Issue: November-December 2014
“Kind of Dark and Scary”
… a recent interview. “I spent maybe 30 minutes just picking them all off.” But as an animator, Zhan has long been interested in the disgusting and the visceral. Her short films often feature things that eat each other—and themselves. In …
Issue: September-October 2019
From Passive to “Immersive Learning”
… “Our students are way ahead of us technologically,” says Susan D. Jones, an associate professor who teaches courses on the history of medicine, science, and technology at the … increasingly part of the conversation. Jones points to the rise of immersive learning and online education, “in which …
Issue: September-October 2011
Endowment Managers’ Pay Reported—Sort Of
… The University released its tax return for nonprofit … Management Company's (HMC) president and chief executive officer, Jane L. Mendillo, and its highest-paid portfolio …
Completing the Century
… American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, $45) presents meaty profiles of 483 impressive figures who died between January 1, 1976, …
Issue: January-February 2005
Allston Options and Actions
… With a near-term goal of establishing an expanded campus footprint across the Charles River during the next decade, Harvard released … the next 10 years. Might a science building be the first to rise as part of an Allston campus? Summers indicated that he …
Issue: September-October 2005
A Harvard Senior’s Call to the Home Front
… I submitted my senior thesis the day before undergraduate Armageddon. Monday, … 9, five days before spring break. I stood on the steps of Widener Library holding the 108 double-spaced pages I … after the submission deadline, and as we gathered in one of the Barker Center’s high-ceilinged rooms, the head of the …
The Undergraduate Angle
… and news stories, conducting research, and performing other editorial tasks. Elizabeth A. Gudrais (left), from Red … summer as a reporting intern at Newsday. Kirstin E. Butler, of Geneva, New York, and Currier House, is concentrating in the history of art. During the summer, she was an intern at the Whitney …
The Harvard Scene
… EXHIBITIONS. At the Fogg, About Face: Artists' Portraits in Photography … opens on July 19. Continuing exhibits include Fragments of Antiquity: Drawing upon Greek Vases ; The Art of Identity: African Sculpture from the Teel Collection; …
Bluffing the Baritone
… from two to 20 times longer than expected relative to their size. In these birds, the trachea typically loops and … species, in birds large and small, sometimes in both sexes of a species and in others just in males. In one species, TE … when the structures that would allow speech might have arisen. Fitch's work supplies no answer to the question of …
Cambridge 02138
… THE CENTER OF THE WORLD The Middle East and western Asia are … are among our most motivated students. Not only did they rise out of poverty, but they and their families gained a … purposes would be reduced (and actual costs would rise, according to treasurer D. Ronald Daniel's letter). …
Issue: January-February 2005