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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
Harvard Square Blooms Again
… from Monday, May 23, until Friday, June 3. Happily, there are plenty of new shops, restaurants, and diversions in the Square, … plans to shutter earlier this year, much to the dismay of loyal customers. Fortunately, it also has strong roots: …
Issue: May-June 2022
All the World’s a Page
… Shakespeare, performed in the palm of one’s hand. So proposes educational technologist … The New Book Press, has created full-length e-books of Macbeth and Midsummer Night’s Dream, with Romeo and …
Issue: July-August 2014
edX: The Second Season
… edX , the online learning joint partnership between Harvard and MIT (now including Berkeley, Georgetown, the University of Texas, and Wellesley), announced its second virtual "semester" of classes, including two Harvard-based large lecture …
Cambridge 02138
… Summing Up Summers The article on, and interview with, Lawrence Summers ( … page 56) should be required reading for members of the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers. The … to rescue scientists and other academics persecuted by the rise of Nazism. Hitlers first victims were the …
Issue: November-December 2006
Divertimentos and Democracy
… Mounted on the wall of the botánica next door, where the devout can buy … pizzicato , then made the voices of their instruments rise and intertwine sinuously—all without a baton to cue …
Issue: January-February 2015
Doing Community Medicine
… A few years ago, instructor of medicine Pieter Cohen, a primary-care physician at the Harvard-affiliated Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), … produced similarly high-impact studies addressing the steep rise in emergency-room wait times, the distribution of free …
Issue: September-October 2008
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
Yesterday’s News
… 1930 The Peabody Museum has sponsored two summer expeditions: the first will make a thorough archaeological survey of a large portion of Utah; the second will continue archaeological …
Issue: July-August 2015
Post-Pandemic Pedagogy
… soon to tell how COVID-19 will alter life and work within the University community over time. But it is a good bet … academic year, and peered ahead. Its report on the future of teaching and learning at Harvard, published March 9, aims … recommendations. Next steps. Many significant issues arise from the task force’s overview. How willing is Harvard …
Issue: May-June 2022
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
Yesterday’s News
… 1910 Thanks to the local construction company building the Cambridge portion of the new subway system, several thousand carts of earth are secured to fill in the lower part of Soldiers …
Issue: September-October 2015
A Family Farm
… season at Keewaydin Ranch, two ranch hands yell and swat at the cows—“Hey! C’mon. Git. Git in there!”—ushering them out of a corral and into a squeeze shoot. The metal compartment … required for both the ranch and nursery. Knotty dynamics arise, as in any familial enterprise, yet Alex and Amory …
Issue: July-August 2018
Crimson on Capitol Hill: 117th
… Incumbency has advantages. Of the 53 Harvard degree-program alumni or matriculants in the … aisle are six senators and 34 representatives, for a total of 54. Asterisks mark the four newcomers. Senate …
Issue: January-February 2021
Toward Democracy in America
… In the age of Twitter , when stabs at wisdom can appear in 140 … book dedicated to a vitally important concept. Let there be no doubt: Toward Democracy makes a major … by polarization and extremism, we need a reminder of why we value it in the first place. That is precisely …
Issue: November-December 2016