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Class Day Address
… president William Jefferson Clinton, forty-second president of the United States, urges his audience to tackle global … power to do public good than ever before because of the rise of non-governmental organizations, because of the …
Harvard’s 2016 Honorary-Degree Recipients
… During the Morning Exercises of the 365rd Commencement, on May … and promoting privatization of government-owned enterprises. The grandson and son of generals, Cardoso sympathized …
The Petitioners—Updated
… Alongside candidates placed on the ballot for the Board of Overseers by the Harvard Alumni … issues, but divestment of endowment holdings in enterprises associated with fossil fuel production was the leading …
Staging Memory
… Odysseus does not want to remember the Trojan War. He does not want to remember the bloody … remain adrift? Through inventive stage mechanics and a dash of humor, the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) adaptation of The Odyssey explores how to live after tragedy. Odysseus …
Yesterday’s News
… 1926 Thick ice on the Charles River has lasted a month longer than usual, … to hire men to cut a channel from Newell Boathouse to areas of the river with more open water. 1936 The article … Ago” reports that alumni in 1886 were informed not only of candidates’ qualifications but also of their opinions on …
Issue: March-April 2016
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
Cambridge 02138
… approach. To suggest that some people are better off burning gasoline if they care about the environment is dangerously … to argue that preservation is responsible for the resulting rise in housing costs driven by demand? Most professionals I …
Issue: November-December 2022
Cambridge 02138
… Democracy By selecting favorable evidence and ignoring other sources, you can prove almost anything. That’s what James T. Kloppenberg did in his biased glorification of President Obama ( “A Nation Arguing with Its Conscience, … the Sandinistas than under Somoza, especially with the rise of the Contras--who, said one man, Justo, had cut off …
Issue: January-February 2011
The HAA’s “Diverse Alumni Family”
… something new every day,” says Susan Morris Novick ’85, the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). “Harvard has always been a great place to do that, and it is one of many reasons that I keep coming back.” The Long Island …
Issue: September-October 2017
Yesterday's News
… 1928 Massachusetts reports an over-supply of trained teachers. Referring to this "interesting condition of affairs," the editors note, "This seems to show one thing—that …
Issue: January-February 2003
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
Yesterday’s News
… 1915 The University’s new professor of hygiene institutes precautionary measures in the weekly inspection of milk, butter, and cream supplies in …
Issue: May-June 2020
A Financial Surplus—and Some Surprises
… The University completed fiscal year 2014, ended last June 30, with a modest surplus, following two years of modest deficits. According to the annual financial … “Harvard’s community of faculty, students and staff has risen admirably to the challenge thus far….” In fact, …
Making Space
… There were two ways that Junko Yamamoto, M.Arch. ’17, could … create similar moments in other places, building structures of twigs, leaves, and rocks, then watching the sunlight … “Naïve Material Gradation,” she made 400 sheets of bioplastic (derived from biological, biodegradable …
Issue: March-April 2024
Found in Translation
… Turkey has seen no shortage of political upheaval and cultural shifts in the 70 years since Sabahattin Ali first published Madonna in a Fur Coat, a story of doomed love in 1930s Berlin, reflected through the …
Issue: November-December 2017