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In Their Nation's Service
… “ On the morning of July 20, 1953, a week before the armistice … trench in South Korea, surveying a battlefield. “The bodies of a number of [fellow] Marines were strewn on the slopes of …
Issue: July-August 2008
Quotable Harvard
… Though he edited both the Yale Book of Quotations and the Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations and is an associate librarian …
Issue: March-April 2011
Harvard Horizons Spotlights Nine Scholars
… Tuesday evening , nine Harvard Ph.D. students shared their research in short, TED-talk-style presentations at the … can all understand,” said Harvard Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) dean Emma Dench during her … group, whose convivial bonds were evidenced by the row of high fives they gave each other after each presentation. …
Schools Report Strong Investment Returns
… In the wake of Harvard Management Company’s (HMC) reported 21.4 percent rate of return on the University’s endowment investments for the … both expectations and past experience. Real assets, comprised of real estate and natural resources, returned 16.5% …
Jewel Box and Jewels
… There are the jewels—in most museums’ case, their artistic … to confuse the capacious Calderwood Courtyard at the heart of the Harvard Art Museums, as recently extended upward and … affection dates from its 1927 incarnation at the center of the Fogg in Henry Richardson Shepley’s design, inspired …
Issue: March-April 2019
E-mail Implications
… A report on Harvard’s investigations of resident deans’ e-mail accounts last year —prepared by … academic misconduct led Harvard administrators to authorize the scrutiny of electronic communications, in turn a subject … may be involved in such cases, and that when such cases do arise, we want to assure that we are coordinated and working …
Arts and Sciences: Aspirations and Anxieties
… During the first Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting of the … in teaching settings, why had course section sizes risen toward the current apparent target of 18 students—too …
Catastrophe Mapped
… The centerpiece of an exhibition now at the Harvard Map Collection is a pieced-together map eight … second image above] that shows at a glance the dimensions of the Western Front in World War I. German trenches are …
Issue: September-October 2014
Harvard’s 375th
… You’re going to see plenty more of this logo, as Harvard prepares to commemorate its anniversary in the next academic year. Plans for celebrating the … making, but reflect “the opportunity to bring the members of our community together not just to mark our history and …
Issue: May-June 2011
Yesterday’s News
… 1913 Construction is underway on the new Larz Anderson Bridge, connecting Cambridge and … including 150 personal scrapbooks and manuscripts, and microfilm copies of thousands of his letters. 1953 Asked to comment on …
Issue: July-August 2013
![J.C. Buttre’s portrait, probably drawn when Everett ran for vice president on the Constitutional Union Party ticket in 1860, links him to Harvard and George Washington, one of his favorite subjects. (His lectures raised more than $100,000 to help purchase Mount Vernon [see <a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/05/granny-talk">“Granny Talk”</a>], and he wrote the entry on Washington for the 1860 <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica.</i>)](https://www.harvardmagazine.com//sites/default/files/styles/topic_teaser/public/img/article/1013/nd13_page_047_01_.jpg.webp?itok=BN9D6N1z "Engraving by J.C. Buttre/Library of Congress")
Vita: Edward Everett
… not been kind to Edward Everett. A preeminent public man of the nineteenth century, brilliant and honored, he is today too often relegated to a supporting role: it was Everett whose …
Issue: November-December 2013
Yesterday’s News
… 1923 The College admits 940 applicants, its largest class ever. For the first time, those in the top seventh of their preparatory schools have been admitted without … surveys its married graduates to find out “what sort of men its alumnae prefer to marry.” The answer is clear: 53 …
Issue: September-October 2013
How the Faculty Feels
… Harvard faculty members are a largely contented lot. They enjoy superb intellectual company, high-caliber … But for a more objective and nuanced assessment, the office of the senior vice provost for faculty development and …
Issue: September-October 2014
Yesterday’s News
… 1919 With the War Department’s approval, the Faculty of Arts and … celebration from May 30 to June 1, “the vicinity of Memorial Hall [is] thronged with delegates wearing gaily …
Issue: May-June 2014
Vita: Mary Sears
… Mary Sears ’27, Ph.D. ’33, collected plants and animals on the bogs near her home in Wayland, Massachusetts, where she … Her adviser was Henry Bryant Bigelow, the first director of the new Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). She … (from May to November) swimming for half an hour after sunrise at Nobska Beach. When an aspiring female oceanographer …
Issue: July-August 2015