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An End to Evasion
… Among the unsung heroes of the twentieth century is Raphael … 1941 and died in 1959, alone and penniless. As the "Father of the Genocide Convention" (the only inscription on his …
Issue: September-October 2002
Phantom Lowell
… Photographs Courtesy of Harvard University Archives. Photograph of Bronze Statue Courtesy of the Harvard Univerxity Portrait Collection, 2003 President … in the year. The unveiling obviously came as a total surprise to President Lowell. After a short silence, gazing at …
Issue: November-December 2003
William Cranch Bond
… Two hundred years ago , during the late summer of 1815, 26-year-old William Cranch Bond unexpectedly spent a night on the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Harvard’s emissary to …
Issue: September-October 2015
Canada Takes the Gold in Women's Hockey
… The Canadian team bested the Americans, 2-0, in the February … Botterill ’02 . The New York Times has a detailed synopsis of the game . The article quotes American defender Angela … Olympic Committee Athletes' Commission . Ruggiero was one of four athletes from the 2010 winter games elected for an …
Yesterday's News
… 1926 After closing the Memorial Hall commons because of students' "unsociable fashion of 'eating round' at cafeterias and lunch counters," …
Issue: November-December 2001
Celeste Ng debuts new novel
… “One of my small, goofy, weird joys is to get a very, very local newspaper from a small town, like my hometown, and read the police blotter,” says best-selling author of Little … I Never Told You , Celeste Ng ’02. “ Mr. So-and-So called the police again to report that someone moved his lawn chair …
Issue: November-December 2022
Harvard in the Interim
… Harvard ’s new normal began to take shape during the spring semester. New Corporation fellows were appointed … on pending searches—Kennedy School and Graduate School of Education deans, Harvard Art Museums director, general … service will not be brief, as Harvard adapts to the fall crises that culminated in Gay’s abrupt departure. Among …
Issue: May-June 2024
John Lewis Named Harvard Commencement Speaker
… Congressman John Lewis, LL.D. ’12 —a towering figure in the U.S. civil-rights movement who has represented Georgia’s Fifth District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1986—will be the principal speaker … Laws degree attests; on that occasion, in reference to his rise from his birth to sharecroppers to his leadership in …
Engineering Equity
… The reports of the Task Force on Women Faculty (WF) and the … faculty across the schools”—perhaps the biggest surprise in what she learned. From maternity leave to search … crucially important means of enhancing the scientific enterprise itself.” That endorsement reflects the administration’s …
Issue: July-August 2005
Analysis: Pedagogy, Practice, and Teaching Innovation at Harvard
… By chance, the Boston Globe on October 16 ran comments by President Faust and her three predecessors on the occasion of Harvard’s 375th anniversary, looking ahead to its 400th. … attention. Tuning Up Teaching. That discrepancy has given rise to the impression that undergraduate teaching, in …
American Studies
… No, the ship of state isn’t sinking. Louise Greep Hogan ’57, Ed.M. ’61, of Shelburne, Vermont, sent in this photo of herself taken … has indeed been a lifeline for many.” Getting ’em while they’re young (HBS division). Richard Palmer, A.M. ’88, …
Issue: January-February 2018
Rakesh Khurana To Step Down
… Thursday that he is stepping down next June, making the 2024-25 academic year his last as dean of Harvard College. In a letter addressed to the University … to make this announcement as I began the final year of my second term and what at the time I believed would be …
Yesterday's News
… 1911 The Bulletin notes that A Lawyer’s Recollections, by George … applauding a decision to “check an increasing disturbance of the academic peace” by closing certain roads in the Yard against “the menace and noisiness of the automobile.” 1936 Dedication exercises for the Old …
Issue: May-June 2016
Art and Activism
… In the autumn of 1924, Alain Locke was enjoying the beauties of San Remo, Italy. But his mind and heart were back home in …
Issue: March-April 2018
Blanche Ames
… Blanche (Ames) Ames and her husband, Oakes Ames, professor of botany at Harvard and director of the Arnold Arboretum, were in the middle of the Yucatan …
Issue: July-August 2017