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NYPD Crimson
… Edward Conlon '87 cruises the streets of the South Bronx in an unmarked car looking … Angel, an 18-year-old drug dealer suspected in the slaying of Mike "Murder." Though well earned, Mike's nickname was …
Issue: January-February 2005
Alumni Gifts
… The twenty-fifth reunion class of 1989 established “an … during the organization’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. “Let me repeat that,” Gellert told the …
Issue: July-August 2014
Yesterday's News
… 1920 The Graduate School of Education registers its first female … a Harvard degree. 1925 The College establishes a board of faculty advisers to counsel freshmen. 1930 Six hundred …
Issue: September-October 2005
Harvard Endowment Increases $11.3 Billion to $53.2 Billion, and University Operations Yield $283-Million Surplus Despite Pandemic
… H arvard’s annual financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021, published today, shows … students home in March 2020, beginning more than a year of remote instruction. The report also discloses … into the need for severe belt-tightening across the enterprise. Harvard’s revenues did decline about 3 percent, to …
A Soft Bot That Jumps
… For most people , the word “robot” conjures up the image of a lumbering … they can fabricate robots with the exact opposite features—soft, pliant, and mobile—using 3-D printing. Today in …
Tying Knots
… to create decent housing for 160 struggling families. In the center of Chile's sprawling capital city, students at the College … glass office towers of Providencia and Vitacura, the high-rise apartment blocks in fashionable Las Condes, north and …
Issue: May-June 2004
Grading Game
… Are grades inflated in the College--and does it matter? Debate over these questions … C. Mansfield Jr. '53 (summa cum laude), Ph.D. '61, Kenan professor of government--is pursuing a novel tack to raise it … affirmative-action thesis, unsurprisingly, provoked a reprise of the reaction it evoked in 1993. Deans denounced it …
Outdoor Adventures
… The sun is shining , the weather is warm, and the schoolyear … impossible to try them all. The solution? Visit the Taste of Cambridge on July 16 to sample the city’s top … Dakzen, barbecue from The Smoke Shop, Greek bites courtesy of Saloniki (the newest spot from Rialto founder Jody …
Issue: July-August 2019
Silver Linings
… a pessimist by nature, but this year has given me plenty of opportunities to rethink my perspective. The scourge of racism and the ravages of climate change are … an educational shift, and a financial blow—multiple crises that challenge our mission in direct and fundamental …
Issue: November-December 2020
A Tribute to Harry Lewis
… At a Wednesday event billed as “A Celebration of Computer Science at Harvard in Honor of Harry Lewis,” one of his former teaching fellows described how Lewis had “given us the license” to grade any programming assignment that “had …
Cast Your Bread
… its tin cup at you in this reunion season, be mindful of the following early instance of philanthropy rewarded. In 1648, Puritans in Massachusetts …
Issue: May-June 2010
Yesterday's News
… 1915 A group of 800 Harvard-educated farmers claim the right to call their organization the "Harvard Farmers … Bulletin' s editor doubts that "such a proposed association of farmers would be likely to besmirch the fair name of …
Cinéaste’s Orgy
… In a normal year, he will watch 2,700 films, an average of nearly seven per day. True, many aren’t feature-length, and Peña doesn’t watch every one all the way through, but even so, he has a fair claim as the nation’s leading movie buff. “I never get tired of watching movies,” he says. “And I do watch Hollywood …
Issue: September-October 2009
Favorites
… For this annual round-up of Cambridge eateries, the editors asked a range of Harvard faculty and staff … I continually find dishes that involve pleasant surprises, such as ‘artichokes with straciatella cheese and …
Issue: May-June 2007
And Then There Were 10
… On July 5 , the Corporation’s Web page—itself a relative novelty for … startling transformation: after 361 years, with the listing of three new members, the ranks of the Fellows expanded from … reunion. That rekindled her engagement and led to her surprise election as a director of the HAA, and subsequently to …
Issue: September-October 2011