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“We Salute You, and We Thank You”
… Following Thursday’s in-person, new-look Commencement for the class of 2022 , the University this morning put on a unique, … until morphing at the end into two powerful, surprise expressions of love for parents and congratulations to …
John S. Rosenberg , Nancy Walecki , Lydialyle Gibson , Jacob Sweet
Reassessing the Gender Wage Gap
… easy to calculate how much—or how little—women in the United States earn relative to men. “You take everyone … for women, find the median for men, and divide,” says Lee professor of economics Claudia Goldin, explaining how to … skills. Goldin has a less popular idea: that the pay gap arises not because men and women are paid differently for the …
Issue: May-June 2016
The Roberts Court
… To honor the life work of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L ’59, LL.D. ’11, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), the …
A "Down Payment" on Financial Aid
… The university has created new scholarships, launched a … unveiled a low-cost loan program to assist graduate- and professional-school students pursuing public-service or … initiative, the number of scholarships available will rise by one-third, to a dozen students annually. Include the …
Issue: March-April 2003
Harvard, H.H.R., Houghton
… Henry Hobson Richardson , A.B. 1859, the leading nineteenth-century American architect—Boston’s … Trinity Church, a major role in the design of the New York State Capitol, libraries, important … Given the unabashedly Harvardian character of the enterprise, the selections from the book presented here will be …
Issue: November-December 2024
Journey to the Amazon
… rainforest to see what Harvard climatologists were doing there. See some of the plants and animals he encountered, and video of the scholars at work. (And read the article, " Models—and …
Issue: January-February 2011
Where the Eyeballs Are
… “These are trying times for political cartoonists,” … “KAL,” lost his job as political cartoonist of the Baltimore Sun a year ago, after 17 years of skewering politicians and others for that audience. The …
Issue: January-February 2007
"A Force on the Ice"
… There has been a Moore on the ice for Harvard since 1996, … 88). The brethren hail from Thornhill, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto ("the hockey capital of the world," says Dominic) and all three have been drafted …
Issue: January-February 2002
Language Learner
… Before I went to Madrid, friends offered their stories of time spent abroad. One described the … de Buen Retiro without sunscreen, only to be duly surprised at how they’d been burned. To a Harvard student …
Issue: November-December 2018
Investing vs. Harvesting
… Pforzheimer professor of teaching and learning Richard J. Light likely … universities—small and large, public and private—than any other scholar of higher education. He has met with the … with what you already know. You might be happily surprised by what you find you enjoy and who you meet.… While …
Richard J. Light , Allison Jegla
Issue: July-August 2022
Extreme Housing
… There are more than 20 million refugees in the world, and for many of them, home consists of UN-donated plastic sheeting held … historian Polybius in his attempts to explain the sudden rise of Rome. Because it's extremely efficient, Jelacic says …
Issue: September-October 2004
The Morning Exercises, Done Briskly
… Last year, the Commencement Morning Exercises went off humidly, in a … were beautiful, as clear blue as spring in New England can offer. Perhaps in keeping with the weather, the events …
“Wild Dreams”
… For a three-year-old Malaysian girl, the “magic hour” came in the heat of the afternoon, when everyone else in the small white … stand at the window, watching in wonder. “The world is full of this shimmering heat, a tropical dream,” she recalls. …
Issue: March-April 2020
Concerning the Union, Disunion
… The freshman have had their last supper in the Harvard … work began in early February on a $23-million makeover of the Union, which will become the core of a new humanities … the heart of what is hoped will be a vibrant academic enterprise. How would it be as a baronial living room, where …
Where the Volunteers Are
… Despite New England’s deserved reputation as an incubator of social innovation, the region’s volunteer rates do not fare well in a national … show that New England has an aggregated lower percentage of citizen engagement and volunteerism than the rest of the …
Issue: September-October 2009