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The Harvard-Radcliffe Entente, Continued
… Founded in 1879 as the Harvard Annex, Radcliffe's original purpose was to offer women access to instruction by Harvard's faculty. … fully integrated in the mid-1940s, despite the resentment of some resistant faculty members (see "Harvard and the Arts …
Seeing the Forest for Its Trees
… went hiking. Mount Tamalpais State Park, Muir Woods, and the Point Reyes National Seashore--among the most diverse … landscapes in the nation--are all within easy reach of the city and quickly became as familiar to her as her own … says. “Nature was our church.” Now president and co-CEO of the Pacific Forest Trust (PFT), Wayburn is still a …
Issue: May-June 2010
America's Open Door
… Heaven's Door is George J. Borjas's second major work on the economic consequences of the great wave of immigration into the United States of the last 30 …
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
A Workable Democracy
… G. Breyer, LL.B. ’64, sometimes says that his job and that of other members of the Supreme Court is to speak for the law. … are difficulties which are intrinsic in the whole enterprise of organizing and maintaining a society which will …
Issue: March-April 2017
Maps of the World
… Darren Sears , M.L.A. ’04, has always been obsessed with the edges of things: shorelines, tree lines, mountain peaks, desert … the natural world seems to crack open. “We typically think of nature as this big, incomprehensible, unmanageable …
Issue: November-December 2024
Them Apples
… Images courtesy of the Harvard University Art Museums In Manhattan in 1958, the … Stella painted from then on.” “I think viewers will be surprised by how tactile these paintings are, by how Stella …
Issue: January-February 2006
An Expert on Sharing
… For many teenagers , the summer before college is particularly memorable. They … to wonder: What will college be like? What will become of the relationships I have at home? How will I survive living away from home? These are some of the feelings captured in Roomies (Little, Brown), a …
Issue: September-October 2014
Harvard Augments Financial Aid—and Girds for Austerity
… would increase financial aid to match peers’ augmented offerings, and a private conversation reviewing the status of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) as it … boss, the president, works), in 2006 and 2024; financial crises (in 2008-2010, and as COVID-19 spread in early 2020); …
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 …
General Petraeus Speaks at the Kennedy School
… U.S. Army General David H. Petraeus, commanding officer of U.S. Central Command, spoke yesterday to a capacity crowd at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) at an event that honored …
College Curriculum Change Completed
… During the second weekend in May, just before the Faculty of Arts … domain. During the May 15 discussion, however, she did rise—prompting Bok to ask, to much laughter, “Could you …
Issue: July-August 2007
LSD Testing in the 1950s
… In the first half of the 1950s, Henry Beecher of Harvard Medical School oversaw a …
Issue: January-February 2015
An Evening With the Editor
… On November 15, 2007, loyal magazine donors gathered at Loeb House in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to hear Harvard Magazine editor John Rosenberg present "The Making of Harvard Magazine: How Your Alumni Magazine Is Edited, …
Fixing the COVID-19 Swab Supply Chain
… In the United States and globally, the inability to test large numbers of people for COVID-19 has severely hampered diagnosis by clinicians and the data-gathering and modeling efforts of epidemiologists. But the shortage does not involve …