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Harvard’s 50-Year Plan
… Ten million square feet of new buildings, as many as 12,000 new jobs, and many billions of dollars: the numbers alone suggest the scope of Harvard’s plans over … enrollment in engineering and applied sciences expected to rise only by about 140 during the next decade, “We do not …
Issue: March-April 2007
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
The National Academy Elects Eight Harvard Professors
… The National Academy of Sciences has elected 120 new members , including eight Harvard professors, drawn principally from the medical and mathematics faculties—but also including a …
Threats Foreign and Domestic
… During a wide-ranging discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations Tuesday evening, Joseph S. … threats facing the country, the limits—and possibilities—of American power, and Harvard’s current “moment of crisis.” … Representative from California, asked Nye about the recent rise in American isolationism. Isolationists who want an …
e-bio
… Parallel Lives, the now classic multibiography by Phyllis (Davidoff) Rose '64, Ph.D. '70, broke new ground in 1983 by examining the lives of five famous English writers and their far less known …
A Crutch or an Anchor?
… Social Studies 10 lecture, I barely manage to juggle Wealth of Nations, this morning’s Crimson, and the peanut butter sandwich I am carrying in my mouth. And … calls me to see if everything’s okay.” The question that arises is whether instant communication has a stabilizing or …
Issue: January-February 2007
President of Mexico Is Kennedy School Commencement Speaker
… Felipe Calderón, M.P.A. ’00, will deliver the 2010 graduation address to Kennedy School degree … the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. President Calderón, who took office in December 2006, served in his twenties as president of the National Action Party’s (PAN) youth movement and …
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 …
Wise Restraints
… As a historian, I often find it easiest to look forward by first looking back. … when I helped kick off Harvard Law School’s Campaign for the Third Century, the last launch as part of the Harvard … its founding nearly two centuries ago—a floundering enterprise with just one faculty member and a single student. …
Issue: January-February 2016
“The Opportunity to Make a Difference”
… During the September 21 , donor-focused launch events for The Harvard Campaign, Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07 (co-founder of Microsoft, and co-chair and trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates …
Part History, Part Literature
… In 1906, Professor Barrett Wendell ’77 created a program in … literature for Harvard undergraduates. In a later speech to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he explained his … The Last Battle of the Civil War , both spoke about the rise of nonprofessional journalists, such as bloggers. And …
Issue: January-February 2007
Harvard 24, Brown 21
… The Ivy League’s defending co-champions went head-to-head on … 24-21, surviving a dramatic Brown rally in the final minute of play. Junior Collier Winters, in his second start at … 15-yard pass to the six-foot-six Luft, who made a high-rise catch at the back of the end zone. Leading 24-14, …
Cambridge 02138
… Endangered Expertise The magazine’s email message title, “Has Ignorance Become a Virtue Today?” (referring to “The Mirage of Knowledge,” March-April, page 32) particularly caught my … knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.” It is hard to rise to the highest principles of our founding as a nation. …
Issue: May-June 2018
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 …
Telling Humanity’s Story through DNA
… DNA —a scientific approach that has grown powerfully during the past decade—reveals that human history is a story of mixing and migration at a scale and complexity that no … data. The resulting 2010 analysis yielded a stunning surprise: that modern humans had mated with that archaic …
Issue: July-August 2022