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Harvard Borrowing Goes Green
… The University yesterday issued $500 million in new bonds: … occurrence, but completely within the normal bounds of financial management for an enterprise with annual revenues exceeding $5 billion, debt …
Overseer Candidates State Their Views
… In light of the importance of the annual election for members of … about my nomination for the Board of Overseers, I was surprised. I remain humbled, honored, and deeply moved by the … a rapidly changing world driven by technology and the rise of artificial intelligence, political and social …
ART Announces Architect for New Allston Theater
… In the wake of the February announcement of a $100-million … loved) feature of the new Everyman is the etched metal brises soleil on the facade featuring 105 full-length … just across the street from the ArtLab: the existing low-rise buildings and parking lot at 175 North Harvard Street , …
Slaves’ “Private Arenas”
… Combining forces, Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Fletcher University Professor, and Maria Tatar, Loeb professor of Germanic languages and literatures and of …
Issue: March-April 2018
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 …
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
Edward M. Kennedy '54, LL.D. '08
… “Now I have something in common with George Washington—other than being born on February 22. It is not, as I had … hoped, being president. It is instead this rare privilege of receiving an honorary degree from Harvard at a special … “I have seen throughout my life how we as a people can rise to a challenge, embrace change, and renew our destiny. …
Issue: January-February 2009
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
Cambridge 02138
… THE NEW IMMIGRANTS The images of today’s poor, hardworking illegal immigrants (Ashley Pettus, “ End of the Melting Pot? ” May-June, page 44) excite our natural … “new immigrants” assimilate faster than the old ones and rise about as fast. More irritating are the photographs …
Issue: July-August 2007
The Roman Empire’s Cosmopolitan Frontier
… At its peak , the Roman Empire stretched from North Africa to northern Britain and was home to perhaps a quarter of the world’s population. The early Empire’s … Empire’s collapse in the sixth century, and document the rise of successor populations, whose descendants still …
Vita: John Muir
… As the first great nature writer of the American West, a … baptism”: Heavens, what an honor for a tramp & how it surprises & excites me.…From the very beginning of my studies it …
Issue: November-December 2014
Henry Knowles Beecher
… Henry K. Beecher , M.D. ’32, for decades Dorr professor of research and teaching in anaesthetics and anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School (HMS), …
Issue: March-April 2017
Vita: Joseph T. Walker
… In 1934, chemist Joseph T. Walker, Ph.D. ’33, took on the task of creating a crime-detection laboratory for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Using science in crime detection wasn’t …
Issue: November-December 2015
Five Questions with Professor Stephanie Burt
… LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall ( Harvard, 2025 ), Loker professor of English Stephanie Burt gives voice to a shimmering variety of queer and transgender verse. “These are lives not represented, or not openly, or not … there poems here that you hadn’t read before, or that surprised you upon rereading? Absolutely —I knew when I started …
Brevia
… Spirits of the Law Since January 1999, when then-provost Harvey V. … it, Harvard's policy has been to prohibit "the use of Harvard's name or related images in labeling alcoholic … wage now begins at $10.85 per hour (up from $9.00), and rises to $12.25 to $13.34, depending on job classification …
Issue: September-October 2002