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An Artful Business
… Aiming to create their own “art stimulus package” during the 2008-09 economic … bakery in the East Village. Ani, a Yale graduate, was tired of cycling through internships. “There seemed no good reason … idiosyncratic, locally owned shops and restaurants that comprise hip Boerum Hill. It mounts solo exhibits and group …
Issue: September-October 2013
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 …
The Libraries’ Rocky Transition
… The evolving information landscape makes change in Harvard … To ready the organization for the challenges of the digital and online era (pursuant to plans announced … will be shared. The aim is both to reduce duplication of effort across what had been 73 separate libraries, and to …
Issue: May-June 2012
The Harvard Hedge Fund?
… A blog post by Matthew Yglesias ’03 has sparked quite a lively debate about … starts by quoting another blogger's comparison of Harvard's endowment to "a $40 billion tax-free hedge fund … Comments from site visitors draw in a cornucopia of related issues: tuition, financial aid, admissions …
Harvard Defends Race-Conscious Admissions at the Supreme Court
… Editor’s note. The magazine asked lawyer and legal analyst and journalist … a contributing editor, to report on the presentation of the Students for Fair Admissions litigation before the … first term, recused herself from the Harvard case in light of her recent past service on the Board of Overseers, but …
Boosting College Financial Aid
… on December 10—and received national attention, setting off debate on financial aid generally, private institutions’ use of their endowments, and the relative position of other … receive grant aid, reflecting circumstances such as health crises or multiple children in college at once.) The …
Issue: March-April 2008
Mem Hall: The Video
… Memorial Hall was at first hailed as an outstanding example of Gothic Revival architecture, but when the style fell from favor, even one of the building's architects looked askance at the edifice. …
Five Harvardians Win MacArthur Grants
… Five Harvardians have been named fellows by the MacArthur Foundation this year. Commonly referred to as … award is meant as an investment in the future promise of the fellows’ work. The Harvard-affiliated recipients … technology and whose 2017 book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy , examined …
When Field Work Means Putting Your Life on the Line
… Kit Parker is a professor of bioengineering. But right now, Harvard's Cabot associate … science is serving as a U.S. Army major in Afghanistan with the 10 th Mountain Division . His job is to participate in …
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 …
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Issue: July-August 2022
Stemming the Applications Flood
… early to Harvard, in December, remain free to apply to other institutions in the regular action cycle (where offers of admission are mailed April 1), and need not make their …
Issue: May-June 2003
News from the HAA
… Ballots for University Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) should arrive in the … All Harvard degree holders are eligible to vote. The list of nominees below was accurate as of February 1. The names …
Down-under Dominator
… Seventy-eight feet away at the other end of the tennis court, she doesn’t seem … regular season ranked seventeenth in the country (having risen as high as ninth, the best in program history) and …
Issue: July-August 2006
Widsom of the Aged
… celebrations, Primus could not devote full attention during the pomp-cum-protests that marked this year’s 373rd … But beyond sheer longevity, the elders had some wisdom to offer the relative youngsters who run the University today, … us in our nineties”), citing revolutions in technology, the rise and fall of Nazism, the Holocaust, the endless major …
Issue: September-October 2024
Brevia
… Lawrence H. Summers announced a new interpretation of the University's "Statement on Rights and Responsibilities," … to satisfy the undergraduate language requirement will also rise to 5. The rationale, explained Harry R. Lewis, dean of …
Issue: May-June 2002