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Artful Gifts
… Show love and support for the arts this holiday season by purchasing hand-made goods … to perform monologues at a small COVID-19-safe gathering. Offer relatives guitar, flute, or singing lessons from a local musician. Commission that timeless painting of grandparents, children—or a favorite local landscape—from …
Issue: November-December 2020
Black and White—and the Red, White, and Blue
… my third birthday: don’t talk to strangers, never take the Cross Bronx Expressway, and always remember that the … pennant banner. And then trip Mike Lowell. But when I was offered a chance to sing the national anthem at Fenway, I … the ordeal. As a singer whose talent compares to that of Beyoncé’s third cousin twice removed, I would not be …
Documentary Query
… working on a documentary about Partners In Health, the nonprofit founded in 1987 by Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and … among others, seek photos or video depicting the early days of the organization, before its official founding, including …
Issue: November-December 2014
Harvard Liberalizes Undergraduate Financial Aid
… students, focusing particularly on those attending the College from middle-income and upper-middle-income … announced on December 10 by President Drew Faust, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith, and dean … grant aid, reflecting unusual circumstances such as health crises, a large number of children in college simultaneously, …
Summer in the City
… Make way for poults. Visitors to Harvard Yard—and these days, there are throngs of them—often wish to capture an iconic photo: Johnston Gate; the …
Issue: September-October 2019
Alumni Day with Mary Louise Kelly
… At the second annual Alumni Day, when reunion classes and other … festive for this first fully post-pandemic 153 rd meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), now considered the … Singers who gave a rousing rendition of “Radcliffe, Now We Rise to Greet Thee” and then, at the ceremony’s close, led …
Fracking’s Deadly Toll
… During the past two decades, U.S. oil and gas production has soared … the United States has been the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas. America’s booming oil and natural … gas. Today, the United States is Europe’s largest supplier of natural gas and is helping millions of Europeans keep the …
Issue: July-August 2022
“Vietnam” on PBS: The Crimson Connection
… When audiences nationwide encounter The Vietnam War, the new documentary series directed by Ken … War II). Few U.S. viewers are likely to be aware that much of the film’s emotional power and new (for them) information … U.S. draftees and those who avoided service, may be surprised to learn that North Vietnamese leaders managed to …
Crimson on Capitol Hill: 114th [Updated]
… The republican resurgence of 2014 affected the University’s … contingent in the new Congress. Three new senators (one risen from the House) and five new representatives—including …
Issue: January-February 2015
Brevia
… granting visas for foreign nationals intending to study in the United States have begun to inhibit the flow of talent to universities, particularly in the sciences. … Tougher Tiger Transcripts As grades in Harvard College rise again (see " Brevia ," May-June, page 75), Princeton …
Issue: July-August 2004
Admissions, through the Ages
… Eight years out of Yale—after stints as a U.S. Marine platoon leader and a teacher—Dwight D. Miller joined the Harvard College admissions office in July 1967. That was before the merger with …
Issue: September-October 2019
Yesterday's News
… 1915 One hundred-plus Harvard men and their families sail from New York City via the Panama Canal to San Francisco to attend the annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs. Illustration by Mark Steele … goal. The editors note reproachfully that only 59.4 percent of alumni have donated to date, a poor showing compared with …
Issue: July-August 2005
Richard Evans Schultes
… ’37, Ph.D. ’41, was a most unlikely candidate to become the archetypal Amazon explorer, the leading authority on mind-altering plants and fungi, and a “founding father” of rainforest conservation. The grandson of German and British immigrants, he spent his childhood as …
Issue: July-August 2022
Afropolitans
… In their version of the classic West African song, “Sweet Mother,” the band … Derrick N. “DNA” Ashong ’97. “But everyone can kind of feel the joy and vibe and the love in it.” Indeed, last …
Issue: September-October 2010
Provincetown in the Off-Off Season
… J anuary in Provincetown can’t promise the carnival sizzle of summertime. But with the population … 1,000, and only 20 or so restaurants and bars open, the tip of Cape Cod offers, instead, “a wonderful, quiet romance,” …
Issue: January-February 2020