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Film Archive Goes Silver
… Recently, a caller from the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna had two questions for Bruce Jenkins, Cavell curator of the Harvard Film Archive: Do you have a copy of Sherlock Jr., the 1924 silent-film classic starring …
Issue: January-February 2004
“Debate and Doubt”
… At the kick-off of Harvard Law School’s bicentennial celebration last week, Dean John F. Manning took the stage in Sanders Theatre and, in reverse order of their …
Yesterday’s News
… 1935 College seniors and juniors are again allowed to cut the last class before, and the first class after, Christmas recess, “but if the records of students who take advantage of this privilege subsequently become unsatisfactory the …
Issue: November-December 2015
A Literary Wake for the Obama Era
… The United States themselves are essentially the greatest … poem,” Walt Whitman claimed in the preface to Leaves of Grass . He went on: “Their Presidents shall not be their … as yet to be confirmed literary figure that will be a surprise to everybody. If this person says yes, I’ll be …
The “Water Cooler” Effect
… Chatting around the water cooler may yield more than office gossip; it may … Harvard Medical School (HMS) investigators. The benefits of collaboration are well accepted in the scientific world, …
Issue: May-June 2011
Harvard Backs After-School Initiative
… The blue lights of police cruisers flashed outside Allston's … school on an early spring morning. "What's going on in there?" a local man pulled over to inquire. Told that a partnership of for-profit and nonprofit institutions had teamed with the …
Extracurriculars
… content/norton-lectures Sanders Theatre February 3, 12, and 27, at 4 p.m. The 2014 Norton Lectures present “The Ethics of Jazz,” by Herbie Hancock. (For details, tickets, and … Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman discusses the rise of urban populations, revolts, and “The Politics of …
Issue: January-February 2014
John Mugane
… Hired in 2003 to build the capacity of Harvard’s African languages program (last spring it offered 21 of them, more than any other university in the …
Issue: November-December 2009
Yesterday's News
… 1928 The University plans to give a total of $350,000 in financial aid to its students, enough to pay the tuition of the entire previous year’s College class. 1933 After …
Issue: September-October 2008
Addressing Sexual Assaults
… sexual assaults on campuses, and institutional responses to them, erupted at Harvard, too, in early spring. Among the … Harvard: You Win,” a long, anonymous, first-person account of an unwanted sexual encounter. It alleged that the … on campus sexual assaults nationwide, and the presence of alcohol as a factor in the case—one of the frequent …
Issue: July-August 2014
The GSAS Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2010
A Poet's Warning
… celebrated its long-awaited Victory Commencement. For the first time since the end of the Second World War, alumni and graduates gathered in … advice to writers, he would have been revolted, but not surprised. In fact, his poem—“Under Which Lyre,” impishly …
Issue: November-December 2007
The SIGnboard: Spring Events
… ) host get-togethers during Commencement and Reunion week. Some early … and bioproducts sectors to stop by for conversation and coffee on Saturday, May 30, in Sever Hall (3-5 p.m. ). For … 19, at 6:30 p.m. , join HAUSA on an exclusive one-hour tour of Lower Manhattan’s Fulton Center, led by architect Greg …
Issue: May-June 2015
Atul Gawande's New Book, Reviewed
… Atul Gawande, surgeon, professor of medicine, and medical writer—and the subject of this September-October 2009 Harvard Magazine … all odds.") As the New York Times review notes, the book reprises Gawande's New Yorker writing about checklists as a …
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, …