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Guerrillas in the Yard
… Bernard s. glassman ’44, from Bethesda, Maryland, reports: “Sometime in 1942-43, I responded … to pass. We graduated, dispersed, and our premature visions of derring-do and medals came to naught. “In a 1942 issue of the Crimson,” Glassman continues, “there appeared a …
Issue: July-August 2011
Video: The "High Set" in Tennis
… In this video , Bruce Wright, volunteer assistant coach of Harvard men's tennis, and head men's coach Dave Fish describe and illustrate the concept of "high set" that they are introducing to the Harvard team, …
Issue: May-June 2010
A Leap of Faith, and a Prayer Answered
… In Busia, Uganda, a dusty, gritty, border town of 50,000, the main drag is lined with hotels that cater to truckers. At many of these, more than lodging is provided. The HIV infection …
Issue: November-December 2009
Tony Horwitz Travels the Keystone XL Route
… attracted more passionate, deeply polarized letters than “The Keystone XL Pipeline,” a Forum opinion essay by Michael B. McElroy, Butler professor of environmental studies (November-December 2013; … it would bring, and those more cautious. To his surprise, the residents of a Hutterite community in Montana (“a …
Financial Reform: The Doggerel
… The financial cataclysm of 2008 has by now perhaps yielded … $35) would seem late to the parade. Yet its editors (IBM professor of business and government Roger B. Porter, adjunct …
Issue: September-October 2011
Harvard Reports $406-Million Surplus, but Endowment Declines
… Harvard’s annual financial report for the year ended June 30, 2022, published today, reflects a … an astounding sum, compared to fears at the inception of the pandemic that Harvard faced … costs may abate. In the nearer term, the commercial enterprise research campus in Allston (including a University …
The Semester Begins
… The University’s pace accelerates from summer’s relative … , with expected remarks by President Drew Faust, Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael D. Smith, Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana , dean of freshmen Thomas Dingman, an undergraduate speaker, and …
Commencement and Alumni Events 2023
… Kappa Exercises , at 11, with orator Adam Falk, Ph.D. ’91, theoretical physicist and president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and guest poet Natalie … of the ceremony, the graduating seniors are asked to rise, and their degrees are conferred on them as a group by …
Issue: May-June 2023
Glaeser: Time to Rethink the Mortgage Interest Deduction
… Glimp professor of economics Edward L. Glaeser, who directs the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, has been using the Boston Globe as a forum for critiquing government …
The Philosopher of the Real World
… a teenager, two political events shook her world. One was the Nicaraguan Revolution. As a 15-year-old living in … public high school she attended—“a bottom-up kind of place, with a focus on social justice”—and Siegel and her … the patterns of obtuse reactions that racial attitudes give rise to, and the incomprehension that occurs alongside their …
Issue: January-February 2024
Harvard College Names New Heads of Houses
… Danoff dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana today announced five new sets of faculty deans, the term for heads of the undergraduate Houses that the College adopted in 2016 . …
Zip Code vs. Genetic Code
… When considering the risk of a given disease—cancer, cardiovascular problems, … or even regional weather conditions? It’s common to think of disease and health “as this tension of ZIP code versus …
Issue: July-August 2019
Straws in the Wind?
… As the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) determines how Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Engineering and …
House Committee Subpoenas Harvard Over Tuition Costs
… Chairman Jim Jordan issued a subpoena to Harvard to force the University to hand over documents pertaining to its financial aid practices, as part of a congressional probe into alleged tuition price-fixing … to President Alan M. Garber, Jordan accused Harvard of withholding materials that shed light on how the …
A Ministry of Presence
… at exactly 3 o’clock, a small white van emerged from the swirl of traffic in Harvard Square and pulled over next to the … their long brown robes—and began setting up a temporary coffee and hot-chocolate stand at the back of the vehicle, …