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Fraught Finances
… Amid an historic expansion, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) must now come to … service and operating expenses for new buildings, which rise from $11.7 million this year to $72 million in 2010, …
Issue: March-April 2006
Elbow Room
… No outward sign sets the pale yellow house at 31 Inman Street apart from its … in the attic; then westward still, to the final residence of Robert Frost ’01, Litt.D. ’37 , at 35 Brewster … in Central Square, that anonymous Victorian was the cradle of the Dark Room Collective. There, in the late 1980s, a …
Issue: March-April 2016
On Reading Well
… Publisher Paul Dry ’66, Ed.M. ’67, has reissued The Fields of Light: An Experiment in Critical Reading (Paul … much a teaching rather than a research-publishing enterprise.” The method, he summarizes, was “asking what the poem …
Issue: July-August 2013
A Designer Refines
… in white shirts for women, discusses how she handles the details on a prototype shirt she is developing. … width:600] … Katiti Kirondé ’79 on the details of fashion … Katiti Kirondé ’79 on the details of fashion … 1526 … 1505 … A Designer Refines … article …
Following the Monuments Men
… Men traveled through Europe rescuing looted art from the Nazis. Read about their work in " The Art Army ," from the January-February issue of Harvard Magazine . Click the map below to see the routes …
Issue: January-February 2010
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
Undergraduates Think Big
… At 8 p.m. on Thursday, February 11, Sanders Theatre was filled to capacity with undergraduates who were there, after a long day of classes, to attend—of all things—more lectures. But … science professor David Malan spoke on "how to make machines do your bidding," arguing that the tools to control …
News In Brief
… New Fellows on the Corporation Richard P. Lifton, president of The … 1. Lifton succeeds Shirley M. Tilghman, president emerita of Princeton and a distinguished molecular biologist who …
Issue: July-August 2025
Can Pseudonyms Make Better Online Citizens?
… joking about politics on Twitter, and sharing reviews of everything from hotels to running shoes. Judith Donath, a … and Society , argues against using real names for most of these Internet interactions and relying instead on …
Issue: September-October 2014
The Dangers of Mirror Life
… Synthetic biologists can alter the genes of microbes, plants, … to create lifeforms from molecules that are mirror images of the building blocks of life. Because the release of such …
Issue: May-June 2025
Hits, Heads, Helmets
… “ I can think of two hits in particular I took at Harvard that would … to anyone,” says Vin Ferrara ’95, who quarterbacked the 1994 and 1995 Crimson varsities. “So of course they weren’t diagnosed.” Ferrara, who earned an …
Issue: January-February 2010
As Many Books as Possible Short of Bankruptcy
… Harvard got into the book-publishing business in the 1640s. It happened this … Dunster, 30, who was quickly appointed the first president of Harvard College. He married the widow Glover and moved … not counting paperback reprints. It’s no pee-wee enterprise. Some highlights of 2013: Walter Johnson’s River of …
Issue: March-April 2013
Oldest Graduates
… The senior members of Harvard and Radcliffe present on Commencement day, and recognized in the afternoon ceremony, were Lillian (Sher) Sugarman ’37, 97, of Swampscott, Massachusetts; and 104-year-old Donald F. …
Issue: July-August 2013
The Right Way to Honor Veterans
… rain and threatening skies forced this year’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps ceremony indoors, but couldn’t squelch the pride and enthusiasm of the families, friends, and alumni who turned out to honor …
Christopher Cerf: Sound and Image
… Multimedia creator Christopher Cerf ’63 ( profiled in the July-August issue of the magazine ) has been an important force in educational …
Issue: July-August 2011