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Harvard Portrait: Amanda Claybaugh
… Academics sometimes say you can see the seeds of an entire career in a scholar’s first book. … “I’ve always felt that’s not true about my book,” says professor of English Amanda Claybaugh about The Novel of …
Issue: May-June 2012
Yesterday's News
… 1919 Indignant alumni write the Bulletin protesting the unsportsmanlike conduct of Harvard spectators at the annual Harvard-Yale baseball … "an organized attempt to rattle the Yale pitcher by means of howling voices and beating drums." Yale won, 10-8. *** An …
Issue: July-August 2004
Yesterday’s News
… 1906 The Newsboys Union of Boston raises $2,567.17 toward a … newsboys to Harvard. 1931 President Conant decides that the football team shall play a postseason game, the receipts of which will go to unemployment relief. 1941 The Harvard …
Issue: September-October 2016
Crimson Red Ink
… Harvard’s annual financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, published today, shows the initial, adverse impact of the coronavirus pandemic as: revenue decreased by 3 … the coronavirus were funded during the year. A second surprise came in the form of sustained philanthropic support . …
Commencement Confetti
… Lattes in the Library? Lamont Library has a full café. The renovated … (who stepped down in 2014, having guided the epochal reform of University governance announced in late 2010) was awarded … The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America, published last …
Issue: July-August 2015
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
Caleb Strong
… In January 1745 , Caleb and Phebe Lyman Strong, of Northampton, Massachusetts, brought their only son for baptism to their pastor, Jonathan … For the baby, Edwards’s touch symbolized transmission of a legacy of rectitude and humility. The boy, descended …
Issue: March-April 2016
Haitian Soccer Team Plays Crimson
… The national men's soccer team of Haiti will play the … is open to the public, are priced at $10. The match is part of a five-day benefit tour by the Haitian team, organized to …
Murasaki Shikibu
… The Japanese woman who wrote the extraordinary Tale of Genji … was normal for a daughter. Shikibu, which means "Bureau of Ceremonial," refers to a post once held by her father, …
Issue: May-June 2002
Harvard College Admits Class of 2028
… Harvard College today offered regular admission to 1,245 applicants to the class of 2028; combined with the 692 early-action applicants …
Yesterday’s News
… 1920 The Harvard football team, playing its first and last … the 50-year old “Commons,” a money-loser since the end of World War I. Plans for the hall’s future employment, say … with a lively interest.” 1930 Applications from members of the class of ’31 for places in Dunster and Lowell Houses …
Issue: January-February 2020
Extension School Centennial
… When John Lowell Jr. endowed a series of public lectures in his will in 1835, he stipulated that the Boston-based courses would cost no more than “the value of two bushels of wheat.” This provision is no longer …
Issue: September-October 2009
Harvard Graduate Students Are Getting Ready to Strike
… Last week, the Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Auto Workers … contract agreement with Harvard by December 3, the last day of classes this semester before reading period. The union … over total compensation,” she said. Many other situations arise that complicate top-up pay: in order to get it, …
Theresa McCulla
… Walking in Paris years ago, Theresa McCulla ’04 suddenly came face-to-face with small … cloth and dramatically lit from above in the shop window of pastry chef Pierre Hermé. “They were presented like … for food—nurtured in her own family’s kitchen, in professional venues, and during her college semester at the …
Issue: January-February 2010
Corporation Expansion
… Paul J. Finnegan ’75, M.B.A. ’82, has been elected a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation , the senior governing board, … May 2011. (He will relinquish his current seat on the Board of Overseers , the junior governing board.) Finnegan, a past …
Issue: July-August 2012