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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 …
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
The Turn in Online Education
… During the summer break on campuses nationwide, providers of … firm. She is co-founder of Team4Tech, a nonprofit enterprise that provides primary- and secondary-school education …
Failure to Finish
… A t approximately 4:05 p.m. on November 2, the 2019 Harvard football season began unraveling. Until … It was the most ghastly defeat in the 146-year history of Harvard football—for three weeks, anyway, until it was … which began with a 30-24 loss at Princeton, was a nightmare of spotty play, gambles that backfired, and horrendously …
Issue: January-February 2020
At the Harvard Art Museums, Indigenous Australian Art and Thought on Display
… Though snow may fall outside , inside their special exhibition galleries the Harvard Art Museums host some heat from desert Australia. Composed of 70 artworks—many of which had never left their native land before now—the …
Radcliffe Women Share Their Stories
… Gibbs ’55 still keeps in touch with classmates across the country. She fondly recalls memories of the women’s liberal-arts college, founded in 1879 as the … how to be a leader,” despite administrators who too often assumed “we would all get married and be happy for the …
Issue: July-August 2021
Doubts about Democracy
… conditions, elite commitment, some consensus within the society itself about national identity, and adequate institutional conditions. Iraq possesses some of these prerequisites, but is woefully lacking in others. … of oil production, that figure can be expected to rise dramatically. Iraq also boasts relatively high literacy …
Issue: July-August 2003
The Privacy Tools Project
… people’s lives. But doing so in a way that promotes sharing of the data while simultaneously preserving privacy by … Tools Project (together with Weatherhead University Professor Gary King, director of the Institute for …
Issue: January-February 2017
Can Disinformation Be Stopped?
… “Stop the Steal” was first trotted out during the 2016 Republican … Media, Politics, and Public Policy, watched a constellation of what she calls “disinformers” rally around the phrase … the Steal” turned violent on January 6, few were less surprised than Donovan. Hours before the Capitol was breached by …
Issue: July-August 2021
Enhancing the Student Experience
… Last year , more than 80 percent of the applicants offered admission to the Class of 2016 chose to matriculate …
Issue: January-February 2013
Yesterday’s News
… 1918 To save coal for the war effort, the University closes various buildings on selected days and cuts off heat to student dormitories after 9 p.m. 1928 Harvard … Minot and William P. Murphy prove that eating half a pound of mammal liver or kidney daily will improve and maintain …
Issue: January-February 2013
University Friendships—and Beyond
… were fashioned on a T-ride to Fields Corner, where a group of fellow first-year students and I were to help repaint a … T-shirts, we played icebreaker games and bonded over the inimitable teenage vogue of late 2017: fidget spinners, … bask and wallow in my solitude, I delight in surprise texts from former section-mates and club members, …
Issue: November-December 2020
All but the Art
… Harvard Art Museums announced in March that the renovated Fogg building and its Renzo Piano-designed … brought on-stream now, to be followed by reinstallation of the collections. The new facility—shown here in photographs of the reconceived Calderwood Courtyard, which has been …
Issue: May-June 2014
Cambridge 02138
… TERRORISM An acquaintance's discovery of a child's crisply done arm on his roof near Ground Zero … page 36) prompt me to write. Your discussants waffled on the salient points of the war on terrorism. They are: … they are addicted only to their cabalistic secrecy, to surprise, and to demoralizing the "enemy" with mere threats. …
Issue: March-April 2002