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The Community’s Conversations
… To a striking degree, the speeches and welcoming messages to students at the beginning of the fall semester touched on a common theme: the importance of civil discourse and the centrality to the University’s …
Issue: November-December 2019
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
The Corporation Changes
… James R. Houghton ’58, M.B.A. ’62, who joined the President and Fellows of Harvard College (the formal name of the Harvard … Corporation member began in mid January. The committee comprises Faust, Reischauer, and two other Corporation …
Issue: March-April 2010
“Big, Fat, and Sick” Institutions—Can Digital Healthcare Help?
… The U.S. healthcare system is “Big, fat, and sick.” So said professor of medicine Jag Singh , speaking at a recent conference in …
Off the Shelf
… Times , by Joel Richard Paul, J.D. ’81 (Riverhead, $30), offers an accessible portrait of a giant from the third branch of government. The author, of the …
Issue: March-April 2018
Our Psychotropic Lives
… think that as humans, we are somehow above biology—capable of self-restraint and subverting base urges. But professor … to biological urges that are complex and sophisticated, but they are biological urges all the same. In his most recent … substances to be used with caution included books. With the rise of the novel and the spread of literacy, a new fear of …
Issue: March-April 2009
Hiram Hunn Awards
… Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid. Hunn ’21 recruited … served Harvard in the Houston area, which has seen a rapid rise in applicants; he is a current committee cochair. Koch, …
Issue: September-October 2008
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
The Context: Affirmative Action and Harvard
… This is the seventh post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival …
Listen to the Landscape
… “Because they have no lyrics,” explains composer and musician Ben Cosgrove ’10, “the titles of my pieces are the only chance I have to give the listener … name from the Yankee Division Highway, another appellation of the Route 128 beltway that rings Boston and separates it …
Issue: July-August 2012
Humanists All
… Editor’s note: Harvard Magazine published “ The Market-Model University: Humanities in the Age of Money ,” by James Engell and Anthony Dangerfield, in the … then have only intensified. Here, Engell takes stock of the humanities and arts, in the academy and in society, …
Issue: January-February 2023
The Eating Is Easy
… to relax, eat well, and have some fun. Restaurants, from the eccentric to the refined, offer the chance to do just that, while showcasing local … toss)—help foster schmoozing within a gustatory crowd that often includes the Irwins’ parents and friends. The menu has …
Issue: July-August 2017
Arts and Sciences Aims
… The new annual letter of Dean Jeremy R. Knowles to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), disseminated in February ( … that the endowment payout for the next fiscal year will rise only 2 percent, and perhaps by a like amount in …
Issue: March-April 2002
Mapping the Way to a Brain Survey
… scope , this is an effort that may eventually surpass even the Human Genome Project. Since President Obama’s April announcement of a new federal initiative to accelerate research on mapping brain activity, an advisory group of scientists has been deciding how best to deploy this boon …
Issue: July-August 2013
Harvard: The Mix Tape
… to make me mix tapes. He would find me by my locker after the last bell to hand me the cassette. I could barely make out the names of the songs, written in scratchy boy handwriting. Usually, … The tracks ran into one another; sometimes they’d be cut off. I would have my favorite songs, but it was too hard to …
Issue: July-August 2013