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Harvard Changes Employee Health Benefits
… The University announced today that under its … employees would become responsible for annual deductibles of $250 per individual and $750 per family, and coinsurance … closely with national norms—but they may well come as a surprise to faculty and staff members accustomed to Harvard’s …
Grand Adventures
… Sallick visited a horse farm, an olive-oil factory, and the museums of Florence—all with their grandchildren. “If their parents … Koenig says, but in recent years she has seen a sharp rise in the number of grandfathers who come along, too. “Men …
Issue: July-August 2006
Archibald Henry Grimke
… In the spring of 1874, 23-year-old Archibald “Archie” Henry … (HLS). Eventually, as a respected Boston attorney, founder of the NAACP, and president of the Association’s Washington, …
Issue: May-June 2023
Yesterday’s News
… 1924 The statue of John Harvard is moved from the Delta, west of Memorial Hall, to today’s position at University Hall. … tutoring [are] elevated to…a large scale commercial enterprise,” thus enabling some undergraduates to pass courses …
Issue: March-April 2014
Ways and Means: Harvard's Wage Debate
… In partial response to the "living-wage" sit-in at Massachusetts Hall last spring … page 70). As the committee--faculty members, members of Harvard employee unions, students, and … employer in Boston. Some of the workers whose wages will rise may live in families above the poverty line. Some of …
Issue: November-December 2001
Brevia
… granting visas for foreign nationals intending to study in the United States have begun to inhibit the flow of talent to universities, particularly in the sciences. … Tougher Tiger Transcripts As grades in Harvard College rise again (see " Brevia ," May-June, page 75), Princeton …
Issue: July-August 2004
Harvard’s Recipe for Healthy Eating
… Read Jonathan Shaw’s article on the connection between red meat consumption and diabetes risk in the January-February issue of Harvard Magazine , then explore Harvard’s new Healthy … (above). Created by nutrition experts at Harvard School of Public Health, the new eating guideline was unveiled …
Issue: January-February 2012
Yesterday’s News
… football season—with Harvard scoring a total 215 points to their opponents’ 21—the Crimson achieves its first victory … wartime role. 1958 Plans are complete for an extension of Leverett House, which has given Mather Hall [renamed Old … to ensure that black, Hispanic, and Native Americans comprise 10 percent of Harvard faculties by 1990, the centennial …
Issue: November-December 2013
Bloodless Revolution
… Imagine an operating room requiring no sterilization because there are no wounds, where doctors don't wear scrubs because … a supercooled magnet that creates crisp, clear images of the inner body through magnetic resonance. The surgeon … turf battles, if not all-out civil war. "This kind of enterprise is always fraught with hazard from that point of view," …
High-Tech Intersections
… " Reimagining the City-University Connection ," a symposium held October … academia can help the public sector make innovative use of data. For instance: Jeremy Levine and Carl Gershenson , … and residents receiving public assistance. They were surprised to find a strong correlation between the number of …
Hidden Treasures
… On a recent visit to Broad Street, the heart of New Britain’s “Little Poland,” not a word of English was heard. Customers lined up for kielbasa at …
Issue: March-April 2018
Vita: Francis Parkman
… more drastically, or to better purpose, than that of Francis Parkman. Still the grandest and most ambitious of our historians, he built his life work, an epic saga of …
Issue: September-October 2014
A Blossoming Centennial
… One by one, in the course of a decade, the masterpieces emerged, each as … Ducks plunge from icy branches into a winter pond. Schools of sweetfish dart between the submerged roots and stems of …
Issue: March-April 2012
Cities for Games
… When he lays down cobblestone roads, spends hours on the windows of a home on a quiet alleyway, or puts the final … on a towering church spire, Scott Duquette ’05 thinks of the visitors who will someday come to his city. They …
Issue: July-August 2012
Yesterday’s News
… 1924 With more than a thousand freshmen enrolled in the College and the Engineering School combined, President … his annual report that Harvard will have to shrink the size of future classes or reduce services to its students until the number of qualified teachers increases. 1939 “The Undergraduate …
Issue: January-February 2014