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Yesterday’s News
… 1914 The outbreak of World War I traps more than 40 faculty … to 30 traveling fellows in Europe and sends at least two professors with French citizenship home to fight. 1939 … Hall, where Harvard’s presidents have worked since the building opened in 1815, to newly refurbished …
Issue: July-August 2014
Overseer Candidates’ 2024 Harvard Priorities
… year , Harvard Magazine asks candidates for Harvard’s Board of Overseers—one of the University’s two governing boards—to answer the … the board must be aware of relevant and timely issues that arise—on campus and off—and provide a reasoned perspective on …
Facing Harvard
… Blame the smallpox. The outbreak began in the depths of a worse … the latest principles of architecture: the Enlightenment risen from the rubble of the Elizabethan era. The building’s …
Issue: November-December 2016
Can Science Justify Itself?
… And most expect any attack on those values to come from the far right: from foes of progressivism, from anti-science religious movements, … proven excellent clickbait, he observes, and are on the rise in number and popularity—and editors have spotted this …
Issue: March-April 2018
Your Tech Relationship Counselor
… W hen the batteries of his three-year-old Apple Airpods began to … Fowler covered business, media, advertising, and the early rise of the Internet in China. He also got to cover the 2008 …
Issue: January-February 2020
Supporting Cast
… Nicholas Britell ’03 fell in love with music through the movies. Chariots of Fire made him want to study classical piano, and as a … the 1992 hacker film Sneakers. If, like Horner’s shimmer of flutes and choir, his own work as a film composer doesn’t …
Issue: September-October 2016
Documenting New England’s Unseen
… At a dinner early in my freshman year, I received a piece of advice that has stuck with me ever after. Latanya Sweeney, professor of the practice of government and technology and the first … my confidence in it. Then that fall, to my welcome surprise, scholar, filmmaker, and former Harvard College fellow …
Issue: September-October 2021
For Science and Engineering, New Life
… In January, the Harvard Corporation authorized the establishment of the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee … to play a major role in shaping the research campus that rises alongside the Charles River in the next 50 years. … In …
Issue: March-April 2007
Festive Fare, Afield
… Commencement and reunion week draws tens of thousands of people to Harvard Square, where there are plenty of restaurants suited to the ensuing …
Issue: May-June 2015
Capital Punishment’s Persistence
… Among the reasons why the United States might be considered … with China, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, it ranks as one of the world’s top executioners. Because most countries have abolished capital punishment, the U.S. retention of the death penalty is anomalous, especially among Western, …
Issue: January-February 2016
President Garber’s Quiet Installation
… ceremonies typically take place in Tercentenary Theatre, attended by thousands. These are not typical … a small, private celebration, which included elements of Harvard’s traditional installation ceremony, took place … in Menschel Hall at the Harvard Art Museums on the evening of Saturday, December 7, to mark Alan M. Garber’s …
Noir Romantic
… ” says poet April Bernard ’78, with a full-throated laugh. Then she explains: “ Noir is romanticism embittered. The life of feeling that has been betrayed leads to the attitude and genre of noir. No one who loves noir is a cynic--cynics never …
Issue: November-December 2010
The SIGnboard: Reunion Week
… ) host get-togethers during Commencement and Reunion week. Some early … at Lowell House, with featured guest Annise Parker, mayor of Houston from 2010 to 2016. Cambridge mayor E. Denise Simmons will join Parker on the panel of dinner speakers, and f ormer Cambridge mayor Kenneth E. …
Issue: May-June 2016
Yesterday’s News
… 1925 The senior and freshman classes assemble on the Widener … Harvard men gather on May 1 to organize the Harvard Club of Shanghai; Way Sung New, M.D. ’14, is elected president. … “the changed military situation in Europe threatens our way of life,” and student support for aid to the Allies …
Issue: May-June 2015
The New England Folk Festival
… Why not launch your day with a rousing ukulele workshop? Then waltz over to sessions on English hand-bell ringing and … (April 24-26 at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School) offers well over 200 dance and music events during a … no expertise is required, says Janet Yeracaris, president of the nonprofit New England Folk Festival Association. “The …
Issue: March-April 2020