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Bruce Mau Addresses Design Students
… designer, author, and innovator Bruce Mau, who gave the Class Day address May 23 at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), grew up in a mining town in northern … seeing his father and a friend break through a glass door of the family home, Mau decided “to live differently. I had …
The Undergraduate: Baby Talk
… About halfway through freshman year, one of my roommates made a startling confession. “You know, … you had a baby.” My roommates and I were draped across the futons in our common room, and as she said it, she burst … lack whatever complex mental or chemical processes comprise “maternal instinct.” When my half-sister first handed …
Issue: March-April 2014
Endowment Gain—and Gaps
… The University’s endowment was valued at $37.6 billion on last June 30, the end of fiscal year 2015—a gain of $1.2 billion (3.3 percent) … of financial institutions; the impact of “the eventual rise of interest rates” in the United States; and seemingly …
Issue: November-December 2015
Shovels in the Ground at Tata Hall
… The name of Ratan Tata, chairman of India's Tata Group , has become a significant one for Harvard: it will adorn the newest building at Harvard Business School (HBS). On …
Near Miss in the NCAA
… A furious comeback by the Harvard men’s basketball team fell short Thursday … favored North Carolina Tar Heels 67-65 in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. The Crimson trailed by 16 points with just over 15 minutes left before reeling off a 29-11 run to take a 65-63 lead with just over a minute …
Notes from Canaday
… The Crimson Summer Academy (CSA), a Harvard program begun in … in becoming successful college applicants. Graduates of CSA are publicly recognized by the University each year … the campus would be like. Although there were looks of surprise upon the discovery that Canaday has no …
Greening China
… Three decades of rapid economic growth in China have been accompanied by severe environmental degradation. In July 2007, the Financial Times headlined an article about a World Bank … at 3.8 percent of China’s GDP. As its citizens’ incomes rise with the rapid economic growth, these valuations will …
Issue: September-October 2008
Harvard Offers to Pay More Than Half of West Station Cost
… from one-third to more than one-half—about $50 million—of the total cost of West Station, a proposed commuter-rail … develop, and the value of developing, its commercial enterprise zone. Lapp’s letter acknowledged that some of the …
“I Have No Idea How You Feel”
… “I feel your pain,” then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton famously declared … Empathy entails compassion and understanding, the taking of another’s problems as one’s own. Evil itself, argued autism researcher Simon Baron-Cohen, is a matter of “empathy erosion,” the unwillingness or inability to …
Ups and Downs
… The shadows on the field at Harvard Stadium were lengthening, and so were Harvard’s chances of stealing the 138th playing of The Game from favored Yale, … opponent. The season’s crazy-quilt nature was no surprise to Stephenson Family head coach for Harvard football …
Issue: January-February 2023
Anne Bradstreet
… My Dear and Loving Husband,” a favorite at weddings, is one of the most anthologized examples of early American verse. But few realize its author was also …
Issue: May-June 2005
The Context: Universities Pushed to Reckon with Slavery
… This is the third post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background … role in collection practices that placed the academic enterprise above respect for the dead and human decency.” Though …
"Bright Line" at the Business School
… having a "financial interest" or "formal position" in enterprises launched, run, or owned by students who are studying at the school. The first restriction means no ownership of equity, options, or debt in such ventures; the latter …
Prosperity and Equality
… middle-class incomes, rising inequality, and the purported workforce displacements caused by immigrants, … an Economy for Prosperity and Equality,” featured some of the most interesting researchers addressing these … of scarce talents” (like running a multinational enterprise or creating software that can be used globally) but “ …
The Undergraduate: Word-upmanship
… n. |lɛkˈsɪfən| – Last week, I overheard one editor at the Crimson accuse another of being a lexiphane. The accused, quick to his wit, replied … tapped the OED app on my iPhone to find out what all of this meant. Lexiphane: someone who fashions ostentatious …
Issue: May-June 2014