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"Habits Are Values in Disguise": The Phi Beta Kappa Exercises
… The Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, held the Tuesday morning of each Commencement week in Sanders Theatre, are in a way … insidious habit is so slow, and so thorough, none of it rises to a "catastrophe." Yet, like lung cancer, it's …
Ride the Wave
… in beach traffic when you can board a boat and cruise the open water? Anchored close to the Square, Community Boating Boston (community-boating.org) offers an assortment of lessons on the Charles River, from amateur-level courses …
Issue: July-August 2024
Crypto—To Regulate or Not?
… The future of cryptocurrency in the United States remains a subject of intense debate. Finance professor Marco Di Maggio , who … manipulation. The crypto industry has experienced major crises, such as Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX scam in 2022, in …
Harvard Medical School Renames Diversity Office, Revamps Recruitment Program
… its diversity programming last week, renaming its diversity office and saying it plans to revamp an initiative that … recruits medical students from underserved communities. The move is the latest in a series of shifts to diversity efforts across the University, as …
Connecting the Harvard Dots
… If graduating seniors wondered whether Commencement marked the end of all their Harvard fun and learning, Robert R. Bowie Jr. … Day to tell them, “Hell, no!” In fact, the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) promised, all young …
Issue: September-October 2010
In with the New
… Parsnip , which replaced the venerated Upstairs on the Square last fall, lacks the sassy whimsicality of its predecessor. Gone are the fuchsia-colored walls … leaping zebras, the gilded chairs, mirrors, and the sense of participating in an Alice in Wonderland moment that …
Issue: July-August 2016
Harvard Undertakes Review of Athletics
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay today announced a comprehensive review of Harvard athletics, guided by a high-level administrative … community to learn about our student athlete experience, the culture of our programs, and the structure of our …
The Humanities Village People
… Rachel Gibian ’15 will spend a considerable part of her summer in the stacks of the Schlesinger and Houghton libraries, … the Program for Research in the Sciences and Engineering (PRISE), the Behavioral Laboratory in the Social Sciences , …
“Fake News” and the Post-Trump Media
… In his 1997 essay “The Arc of the Moral Universe,” philosopher Joshua Cohen, Ph.D. ’79, asked whether the injustice of American slavery contributed to its demise. To anyone but …
“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
The Bells Return to Russia
… The April 27 issue of the New Yorker featured an in-depth exploration, by Elif Batuman ’99, of the journey a set of church bells from Russia's Danilov …
Ouch!
… The social status of physicians rose in the eighteenth century as their understanding of disease grew apace. But effective new treatments or …
Issue: November-December 2006
Being Alive Together
… On Friday, November 26, the lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim died, on the same day the Omicron variation of the COVID virus made headlines. That evening in New York, I had tickets to the new adaptation of Sondheim’s musical, Company . Although I teach …
“Building on the Continuity”
… This story concerns the events at Harvard during the spring of 1969, when … then denied those charges) . Suzanne Lynn wasn’t surprised: “I’m really glad to hear of the consciousness of the …
Jean Martin , Marina N. Bolotnikova
Renewing the Houses
… In early April, dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds released the results of a year-long review of the residential House system, …
Issue: July-August 2009