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“Making Mountains As We Run”
… In honor of President Lawrence S. Bacow’s inauguration, the U.S. Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda S.C. Gorman ’20, … read the Harvard arms, If we took another look? The letters of veritas , Tossed across Three open books, Like eight …
Cambridge Scholars
… Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2017-2018 academic year. Halah Ahmad, of Milwaukee and Currier House, a comparative study of religion concentrator, will be the Lionel De Jersey …
Issue: July-August 2017
Harvard Endowment Increases 5.7 Percent to $39.2 Billion
… Highlights for fiscal 2018: •The endowment’s value was $39.2 billion as of this past June 30, the end of fiscal year 2018—an … schools to plan for per-unit endowment distributions to rise between 2.5 percent and 4.5 percent annually, starting …
Football: Harvard 42, Princeton 7
… With three minutes left to play in the first half last Saturday on a cool, dingy day at Harvard … ’16 (as he lay on his side after slipping) on the end of a five-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Scott Hosch ’16. It was the first of five consecutive possessions on which Harvard scored, all …
Senior at the Crossroads
… and college sharing a street sign. She had never noticed the combination during her four years in college. Bock donned a mortarboard and stood atop her father's shoulders to pose for a photograph at the meaningful intersection; her mother, Diane Bock, snapped …
Financial Crisis, Faculty Perspectives: Part 1
… participated in two panel discussions this week focused on the roiling crisis in the nation's financial markets, the proposal to inject up to $700 billion of public funding to strengthen weakened institutions, and … for the economy. They concurred that regulation of financial institutions will be changed significantly; …
Harvard Confers Six Honorary Degrees
… During the 373rd Commencement this morning, Harvard will celebrate … president, now emeritus. Today’s relatively compact cohort of honorands is listed alphabetically below, not necessarily … Knot of Allston, where construction on the commercial enterprise research campus and a new theater complex is now well …
Cambridge 02138
… Hailing the Humanities What a great, much-needed article by Helen … subhead, “How to welcome and nurture the poets and painters of the future,” is arguably the least of it.Her last … any pain. According to them, this is very rare. I am surprised that, after all these years, there have not been …
Issue: January-February 2013
Anthropology Anew
… When the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology unveils “All … in understanding the rich diversity of the human enterprise. … 219 … The Peabody's prized collections … The Peabody …
Issue: May-June 2017
Ko K'un-hua
… Yale was the first American college to offer instruction in Chinese, … 1877; apparently, no one signed up. The next year, a group of Boston and Salem businessmen engaged in the lucrative …
Issue: March-April 2008
Football 2019: Princeton 30, Harvard 24
… have played some rousing football games, usually won by the Tigers. Saturday at Princeton Stadium saw another one, … catches, breakaway runs, and more blocked kicks than you often see in a whole season. As in 2018, Harvard went … had the ball it meant that Princeton’s quick-striking offense did not.) But Harvard could not overcome three …
John Harvard Walks the Yard!
… The normally sober and strait-laced Harvard Gazette , the University's official news publication, had a little fun with the cover of its Commencement issue, celebrating Harvard's 375th …
Keeping Them Close
… The ambulance rolls onto a treeless street in Boston, … several appointments, physician Eileen Costello ’80, chief of ambulatory pediatrics at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has come to her. Crystal is part of SOFAR (Supporting Our Families through Addiction and …
Issue: May-June 2021
“They Need Money”
… In Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty (Knopf, $24), Jeff Madrick, … Americans seem, mostly, inclined to ignore. At a time of intense debate about income inequality, he puts a face—or …
Issue: January-February 2020
Manchester, Redux
… Manchester, New Hampshire, in the 1980s was no kid’s paradise. “Growing up, we didn’t even come to this part of town,” says Chris Pappas ’02 while touring Elm Street, … brick factories that once filled 137 acres and comprised the largest cotton-textile plant in the country—the …
Issue: March-April 2015