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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
The Talk
… The Commencement-week speakers wove together affectionate … searing personal anecdotes, an explicit evocation of the apocalypse (in President Drew Faust’s address, making … change and through storm.” What does that mean for today’s crises? Where do universities fit in this threatening mix? …
Issue: July-August 2016
Marc Goodheart Relinquishes Governing Boards Role
… Marc Goodheart ’81, J.D. ’85, Secretary of the University since 1998—and thus the chief administrative … term in office and the University’s subsequent financial crises . Such dramatic moments in Harvard history aside, …
The Last Word
… editor Deborah Smullyan’s hands in 1993. Though she gave up the class notes three years later, she has continued to … issue. In her day job, meanwhile, Smullyan, herself class of 1972, edits class report volumes for the Harvard Alumni … Gazette highlighted her double life in its pages. Most of Smullyan’s work for this magazine is seen only by College …
Curiosities: A Fantasy Trip
… During a fall jaunt through the Berkshires, follow a bread-crumb trail into the … Rockwell Museum, in Stockbridge. “Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration” (through October 31) features more … centuries. The focus is “on looking at the tradition of American illustration as a reflection and shaper of …
Issue: September-October 2021
The Harvard College Curriculum
… Beginning in the fall of 2018, Harvard undergraduates will find … Program in General Education takes effect. Following review of the Gen Ed curriculum that took shape a decade ago—under … and humanity.” The College’s requirements thus comprise the Gen Ed courses; the distribution courses; …
Issue: July-August 2017
Spanish-Caribbean Tapas
… Union Square, long viewed by many as an unwholesome tangle of car traffic, has lately emerged as something of a foodies’ haven. Distinctive, locally owned restaurants abound, ranging from the supper-club milieu of Journeyman (try the fresh …
Issue: July-August 2012
Cartography Animated
… Mapmaking, especially before the Enlightenment, had as much to do with imagination as … strange, quasi-mythological creatures in the far reaches of the ocean. Imposing megafauna trod across early colonial-era maps of Africa and Asia, enticing explorers to exploit their …
Issue: March-April 2021
More Housing in Allston
… apartment building at 180 Western Avenue in Allston. The site lies at the intersection of Western Avenue and North Harvard Street known as Barry’s … to accommodate about 500 Harvard affiliates that will rise at the rear of a parcel fronting 175 North Harvard …
Playing Nice in the Sandbox
… School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) researchers and … as Gmail, Facebook, and Angry Birds. When a user surfing the Web opens an external application, says Cutting … professor of computer science and lead researcher Greg Morrisett , Web browsers such as Google Chrome typically …
Trends in Harvard’s Hiring and Promotion of Women and Minority Faculty
… With a possibly contentious debate over the College’s current policy sanctioning student members of unrecognized single-gender social organizations averted , the main focus of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on February 7 was …
Made in Germany
… a checkered carpet is turned sideways: tables are bound to the wall, and the wall lies at viewers’ feet. This room, … a collapsed East German state. The installation is part of an exhibition opening today at the Harvard Art Museums. … Third Reich , socialism, mass migration, and the evolving rise of the far-right and neo-Nazism. The exhibit explores …
Slow and Steady Wins the Pulitzer
… notes, digitized for online viewers, have become a symbol of resistance against the dishonesty and empty promises that defined the 2016 … year as a reporter at The Washington Post , the recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting took on the …
“Our Vote Counts”
… This past Friday evening , an alliance of 27 campus affinity organizations came together online for “Interconnections and Elections: A … for postal workers and the removal of large mail-sorting machines means more mail is being held up. In some areas, …
Toward Cultural Citizenship
… One day in the early spring of 2013, Alexander Rehding asked the … who will tell us how they work in a complex ballet with machines and movable shelving structures.” Students will …
Issue: May-June 2014