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Honoris Causa
… degrees at Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced the honorands, and President Drew Faust read the citations, … an honorary degree had also been voted to former Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Jeremy R. Knowles, who died on … and algorithmic serve as source code in the quest to make machines think. Photograph by Stu Rosner Janet D. Rowley. …
Issue: July-August 2008
Shifting Sands
… into an aardvark hole, blazing days and frozen nights: the Marshalls weren’t on a typical family vacation when they … and other helpers. Backed by Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, they were searching for the … ensuing decade, the Marshalls documented the daily lives of the hunter-gatherers in 40,000 photographs. Some will be …
Issue: September-October 2018
Writing Crime into Race
… have a record.” That sentence dropped like a hammer inside the meeting room where Khalil Gibran Muhammad, then 21 years … Several weeks earlier, Muhammad and a few other University of Pennsylvania students had organized a demonstration, with plans to seize copies of the student newspaper from distribution boxes: a …
Issue: July-August 2018
"Listen my children..."
… outstretched to shake with passers-by." And you shall hear/ Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere….” Thanks to the legend-building of Henry …
Issue: March-April 2007
Football: Harvard 35-Holy Cross 34
… literally. With his team having just scored a touchdown on the final play of regulation to pull within a point, the Crusaders’ head … a 2-0 mark. On a sparkling autumn day (and with the Head of the Charles Regatta wending its way along the river), the …
Brevia
… Chao Center Celebration Harvesting one of the fruits of its capital campaign the day before unveiling … Americans in College history. Stanford’s yield continued to rise sharply, reaching nearly 77 percent, as did Yale’s , …
Issue: July-August 2014
Native Modern
… Conjure your image of a Native American. Modern Americans might first think of American Indians as relics of the past, their memory consigned to kindergarten … him for, like, nine months.…There were moments when he’d rise to being a great father. But for the most part, he was …
Issue: January-February 2019
Sarah Thomas, New Vice President for the Harvard Library, Sees Opportunities Ahead
… Sarah Thomas , the new vice president for the Harvard Library , shared her … an interview with Harvard Magazine during the second week of September, her fifth week on the job. The libraries have … announced in May, came as the Library Board (comprised of representatives from Harvard’s schools and charged …
From the Archives: A Routine Commencement Speech
… George Marshall’s Harvard speech got thin coverage in the press, and the few reporters who saw its news value … scant support from their superiors and the Department of State. The late Stephen White ’36, then an editorial … writer for the New York Herald Tribune, was the only out-of-town newsman to cover the speech—and that was a bit of a …
Behind the Scenes: Writing about Oneself
… to give alumni a look into College life by writing about the undergraduate I knew best: me. For my final essay as a … my life, I learned (quite against my will) about the power of slowing down and doing nothing in particular. As I adapted to the pace of my home state of Alabama, I felt my mind open up to new …
At Home on the Range
… Every day Hustace "Stacey" Scott '70 rises early and walks into the kitchen to pour two large pancakes on the griddle: a carbohydrate jump start for a day of manual labor on the Wyoming plains that begins, and often …
Issue: January-February 2003
Encouraging Harvard to Resist
… has been updated to include reactions to Harvard declining the federal government's demands. This spring , federal … University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of pro-Palestine campus protests who holds permanent U.S. … hospitals. Throughout the past month, several groups of Harvard alumni and faculty members have written and …
Uncentered
… were landing thick as snow when I shocked myself in the Smith Campus Center. As electric shocks go, this one was … my hands were headed, my fingers only brushed the edge of the electrical outlet. A sensation not unlike several … procrastinating of our fellow students we’d watched the sun rise and our productivity fall into a gradual scroll through …
Issue: March-April 2019
The March for Science
… Early on a chilly Saturday morning in April, I gathered in Cambridge with a hearty band of Harvard scientists and supporters of science to help launch the March for Science, an …
Issue: July-August 2017
Fat Goes Down (with) the Tubes
… Orders roll in from unseen commanders and throngs of troops shuffle to work. They tear apart tubes, unclamp hoses, snap sinewy support lines, pull power cords—they undo the details of their flexible infrastructure. In record time they've …
Issue: May-June 2002