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… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … Class notes and obituaries November-December 2012 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: November-December 2012
Meaningful Metrics
… The U.S. Department of Education’s promised college-ratings … and student outcomes) doesn’t have many friends on the nation’s elite, selective campuses. President Drew … worried. “I think these should be very complex portraits of institutions,” not reducible to a “simple metric.” But …
Issue: July-August 2015
Cambridge 02138
… everyone who has or uses a computer would read it. We lost the game when we adopted the term “Artificial Intelligence.” … loved the phrase “counterfeit humanity.” To extend the list of metaphors that cast a shade over things digital, I offer … E. Schevill and William Watkins way before 1957. I am surprised that they are not mentioned in the article or several …
Issue: September-October 2024
Joining the “Long Crimson Line”
… A round dozen of Harvard students—the largest contingent since 2010—took their oaths of office, respectively, as second lieutenants in the U.S. …
Through the Toilet Bowl, and What I Found There
… Harvard College, or at least so I imagined. Sitting in the back of my father’s 1993 Ford Explorer, I was four when I asked … next to nothing about the school. I envisioned an expanse of land peppered by ancient buildings. I fantasized about …
The Harvard Corporation’s Continuing Reconstruction
… According to a University report, the Harvard Corporation has taken the next step in its … campus development in Allston); ensuring greater depth of understanding about and expertise on Harvard finances, in … which provides debt financing to early-stage venture enterprises. Details on specific committee charters and …
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … Class notes and obituaries September-October 2012 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: September-October 2012
The Provost Search
… In the wake of Steven E. Hyman’s decision to step down as University provost at the end of the academic year, President Drew Faust has appointed a …
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … … Class notes and obituaries March-April 2012 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: March-April 2012
Talking about Teaching, Part III: Using the University’s Collections
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) concluded its … in later discussion, she noted that the exhibition has arisen from a graduate seminar in General Education, where … learning is always going to be a smaller enterprise here," compared to larger lecture-based instruction. …
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … … Class notes and obituaries January-February 2012 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: January-February 2012
Pure Fabrications
… in church with Paul Matisse '54 and you will marvel at how the creator has shaped his world. Everywhere you look you … or object that Matisse has made or designed for his home of the past 20 years, on Main Street in Groton, Massachusetts, 50 minutes by car north of Cambridge—his home in a former Baptist church. When …
Issue: May-June 2002
Bluegrass for the Yard
… "Fire on the Mountain: A Bluegrass Symposium" will bring experts in, and aficionados of, American bluegrass music to the Barker Center on … and folklorist, will also participate. Sponsors include the Office for the Arts at Harvard , the Folklore and Mythology …
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … … Class notes and obituaries July-August 2012 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: July-August 2012
Rustic Charms
… Dinner guests at The Herb Lyceum at Gilson’s Farm are free to wander through … Or they can sit out on a stone terrace with a glass of wine, breathing in the fragrant air, before settling in … charming, five-acre working herb farm in the historic town of Groton, Massachusetts, off Route 2. Proprietor David …
Issue: July-August 2011