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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 …
Harvard in the Olympics
… hear a former Olympic and National Hockey League player use the word “fungible” twice within a few minutes, but C.J. … program on “Harvard in the Olympics” at the Harvard Club of Boston. Just three weeks before the 2006 Torino Winter … included a disquisition on the ancient Olympics by Jones professor of classical Greek literature Gregory Nagy, four …
Issue: March-April 2006
Unfinished Business
… The End of any administration is an occasion to reflect upon … first phase of the otherwise privately developed enterprise research campus (ERC), entrusted to Tishman Speyer. … Interest rates and Boston construction costs continue to rise; there is plenty of vacant office space downtown and …
Issue: May-June 2023
Get Rid of It
… Get Rid of It Stay focused on these top 10 tips for selling, bartering, or giving away … the same clothes over and over, usually only a fraction of their wardrobes.) 3) When evaluating that ultra-deluxe …
Issue: July-August 2012
Ringing in the New
… presidential administration moves into Massachusetts Hall, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) is also taking on … new president, Jonathan L.S. Byrnes, D.B.A. ’80. “The theme of this coming year will be ‘Creating a New Era,’” he says. … develop better ways to engage an increasingly diverse group of people living throughout the world. “As with any …
Issue: September-October 2007
Off the Shelf
… Where Art and Science Meet, essays by Stephen Jay Gould, professor of geology, Agassiz professor of zoology, and curator of invertebrate paleontology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and photographs by …
Mike Schur on the Good Life
… he says. “I don’t know why anyone would decline any school of thought if it has something good to teach you.” This is not a typical conversation in the world of sitcoms, an arena where Schur’s track record is hard to …
Issue: March-April 2022
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
Strengths—and Warning Signs
… For the fourth consecutive year, Harvard has reported a … fourth consecutive year, the University’s senior financial officers have cautioned against taking the good times for … Harvard’s proposal for development of its envisioned “enterprise research campus,” on 36 acres of Allston Landing when …
Issue: January-February 2018
Commencement Confetti
… VITAL STATISTICS The University awarded 6,349 earned degrees, 11 honorary … viz., 536 people took degrees from the Kennedy School of Government, and they hailed from 70 countries on six … whose service to the University is at the core of our enterprise—those members of our faculty who have recently …
Issue: July-August 2003
Conjuring the Cosmos
… How did this story begin? Just after the Big Bang, the universe was “so smooth it was almost … when there was “no structure, no chemistry, no possibility of chemistry.” How then did it become the “heterogeneous” mix of planets, stars, galaxies, and filamentous structures …
Issue: May-June 2013
Believe It or Not!
… For me, it’s not the commemorative McDonald’s commercials, nor the reverent … Stewart hoax persists more than a decade later because some of us want to believe it. Kevin Young’s new book, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, …
Issue: November-December 2017
The Food-Climate Conundrum
… Thirty-five percent of food produced in the United States is never eaten; households are the largest … asked participants, “What gives you hope that we can rise to meet the food challenges of the twenty-first …
The Case for Cultural Appropriation
… encyclopedia or a textbook—a massive tome that will cover the entire history of human culture. Puchner, Wien professor of drama and of English and comparative literature, …
Issue: March-April 2023
Making the Case
… The United States of America is an idea—and an ideal. Each … and work on our campus. Today, international students comprise nearly a quarter of our community, and we host more … of ideals and values that are the heart of our enterprise and the soul of this country? There are, perhaps, no …
Issue: May-June 2018