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Financial Focus
… “About 75 percent of our revenues are from the endowment, tuition, and sponsored research,” reports Dan … academic year just begun, spending on such scholarships has risen about 90 percent—an increase of nearly $90 million in …
Issue: September-October 2013
A Modest Generation
… So what do we call ourselves? As labels for a generation go, The Silent Generation always struck me as singularly stupid; … began. Welcome to the real world. We are children therefore of the Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the … for that matter, central heating. Dishwashers and laundry machines would have to come later. I still call the …
Issue: May-June 2005
Solzhenitsyn Flays the West
… In 1974, the Soviet Union deported dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Litt.D. ’78, author of The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan … The Tercentenary Theatre audience was in for a rude surprise. "The Exhausted West," delivered in Russian with …
Yesterday’s News
… in Memorial Hall no longer need carry spare change in their pockets: the system of tipping the waiters has been abolished. 1933 In his … their Labor Day plans. 1948 Tuition at the College has risen to $525 per annum, a jump of more than 30 percent. The …
Issue: September-October 2023
Science and Sculpture
… childhood home in rural New Jersey stands a series of his aluminum sculptures. Called Quantum Stream, these seven rectangular parallelepipeds ascend a grassy … is full of surprising objects: aluminum sculptures that rise nearly to the ceiling, whimsical metal books on the …
Issue: January-February 2007
Assessing Admissions
… In his new book, The Chosen , Jerome Karabel ’72, Ph.D. ’77, offers a … attended one of the Big Three, and these students comprised more than one-quarter of the entering classes at …
Issue: May-June 2006
Sixteen-Acre Battlefield
… In the first month after 9/11, Larry Silverstein, the … Battle for Ground Zero. In 2001, Greenspan was a University of Pennsylvania graduate student in urban anthropology; she … virtually all the significant players in the resurrection of the area and writing dispatches about it for The …
Issue: September-October 2013
From Here to Timbuktu
… How Father Columba Stewart ’79, a Benedictine monk from Minnesota, … the short answer is: he had flown to the medieval center of learning (and site of a United Nations peacekeeping … Stewart isn’t typically that adventurous. Each day, he rises at 5 a.m., swims for 35 minutes, and then, fussy about …
Issue: January-February 2018
The President’s Challenge 2013
… President Drew Faust announced today the launch of the President’s Challenge 2013 , the second … Lab , two expert mentors, and full access to the resources of the lab through August 2012. This year the contest will …
How the Enlightenment Led to Colonialism
… to play an excerpt from his 2005 animated film rendition of The Magic Flute , how the 1791 Mozart opera connects to the topic of his second Norton Lecture, “A Brief History of Colonial …
Off the Shelf
… The three latest installments in the Cass R. … The author, a Harvard Lampoon alumnus, concentrated (no surprise) in the history of science. Chia-Chia Lin ’03, J.D. …
Issue: May-June 2019
“Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion”
… The Peabody Essex Museum’s newest exhibit opens with a white … by Maria Grazia Chiuri, the first female creative director of Dior. Debuting in the spring 2017 collection, it amplified the power of #MeToo—and currently retails for $860. Jeanne Lanvin's …
Issue: January-February 2021
Seeking a Flag-Bearer!
… been to more than 59 Games? You may be eligible to carry on the original tradition of the Little Red Flag, waved at the Harvard-Yale contest … by the person who has attended the football classic most often. In 1884, Frederick Plummer, A.B. 1888, took a …
Issue: November-December 2019
Off the Shelf
… experiences are a choice, not an inevitability, writes the Vanderbilt law professor. He declares the deregulation adopted in 1978 a … reflection.” American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration, by Benjamin D. Weber, Ph.D. ’17 …
Issue: November-December 2023
Little Red Flag
… in 1949, customarily carried a certain small banner to The Game as a talisman of Harvard luck. Made of magenta and brick-red silk with an olive H stitched to …
Issue: September-October 2003