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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
Brevia
… Professorships Stimulus The University on February 16 announced a $50-million Professorship Challenge Fund. Donors of $3 million qualify for … barrier was crossed in 1997-98). Scholarship aid will rise 6.2 percent to $90 million. Allston Organization …
Issue: May-June 2006
The Dogs of War
… more than 200 who were taken to Gaza as hostages—set off furious confrontations at Harvard and on campuses across the country. As the Israel Defense Forces began bombing … intensified, sometimes tinged with deplorable strains of antisemitism and Islamophobia. Here and nationwide, local …
Issue: January-February 2024
News Briefs
… Allston Ambitions Even as work proceeds toward construction of the first commercial buildings in Harvard’s 14-acre “enterprise research campus” (ERC) along Western Avenue in Allston, …
Issue: May-June 2021
Where Science Meets Culture
… When Jane Pickering , the new director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture (HMSC), saw King professor of …
Happy Returns
… A s the punt hurtles through the sky, freshman Justice … the Harvard 14-yard-line, 40 yards downfield from the line of scrimmage. In many ways, his return began long before the ball was snapped: he has assiduously watched film of Columbia’s punter and read the scouting reports on him. …
Issue: September-October 2018
Endowment Value Declines to $30.7 Billion on Flat Investment Return
… Highlights: Endowment valued at $30.7 billion as of June 30, down $1.3 billion (4.1 percent) from $32 billion … its market benchmarks, but trails returns reported by some other institutions. Investment managers remain cautious about … volatile markets—from which long-term opportunities may arise. As Mendillo concluded her report: This is a time of …
Harvard Headlines: Fifteen Economists Publish Plan to Regulate the Financial System
… The Squam Lake Report (Princeton), a book-length set of recommendations for reform of financial regulation, was published today by 15 …
Three New England Trips on the East Coast Greenway
… These trails are all in development, meaning that stretches … linked Boston and Portland until 1944; only 16 percent of the trail (11 miles) is car-free now, but another 10.5 miles may be as well by the end of the year. A special bike/pedestrian bridge in Scarborough …
Issue: March-April 2010
Yesterday's News
… 1922 An explosion of liquid oxygen in Jefferson Labs takes the lives of an engineering graduate student and a carpenter working …
Issue: May-June 2002
Steven Spielberg: “I Was in a Celluloid Bubble”
… “It's an honor and a thrill to address this group of distinguished alumni and supportive friends and kvelling … director Steven Spielberg, Ar.D. ’16, speaking to the Harvard graduates and their friends and families who … hatred end?’ but ‘How to begin?’” Spielberg connected the rise of anti-Semitism to that of Islamophobia, and prejudice …
"More News to Come..."
… John James Audubon described the stentorian voice of the ivory-billed woodpecker in his Ornithological Biography, prose descriptions of the birds depicted in The Birds of America (1827-1838): …
Issue: July-August 2005
Unbelievably Good
… What's up with Ryan Fitzpatrick? Might this soft-spoken junior from Arizona be the most talented quarterback to play football for Harvard since the glory days of all-American Barry Wood '32? "The guy's amazing. He's as …
Issue: November-December 2003
Harkness and History
… education have long overlapped, collided, and shaped each other at Harvard. Harry Lewis owns a large collection of Harvard course catalogs, and he can show how, in the … everyman’s club, and could counteract this anonymity. The rise of college athletics in the latter part of the …
Issue: November-December 2013
Animal-Free Dining
… On a recent Saturday night, the Walnut Grille, in Newton Highlands, was buzzing. A young couple tucked into a dish of finger-lickin’ chipotle soy fingers. Nearby, old friends … in a church basement in the 1980s and has seen a steady rise in membership and attendance at its events, including …
Issue: March-April 2017