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“Party Animals”
… Animals are ever-present in the human imagination; their images have inspired … Painted terracotta drinking mugs shaped like the heads of eagles, pigs, braying donkeys, and other animals animated … transform into a donkey,” says Susanne Ebbinghaus, head of Asian and Mediterranean art at the Harvard Art Museums. …
Issue: November-December 2018
Long Live Harvard
… The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on … Commencement day were 97-year-old Bertha O. Fineberg ’31, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and 103-year-old Philip Keene … Wellesley, Massachusetts. According to University records, the oldest alumni, apart from Keene, include: Walter J. …
Issue: July-August 2006
Helen Keller
… Totally deaf and blind from the age of 19 months, world famous at seven for having … earned satisfactory grades in all subjects; for the bugaboo of geometry, she relied on tactile diagrams made of raised …
Issue: July-August 2004
Your Take: The Artful Dodge
… “The Art of the Dodge,” from the March-April 2012 issue, explores new research by Harvard Kennedy School assistant professor Todd Rogers and Harvard Business School associate …
Princeton Records Strong Endowment Investment Gains
… endowment investments had realized a 14.7 percent return in the fiscal year 2010 ended June 30. Among the universities … a 14.3 percent gain from the $12.6 billion value at the end of fiscal 2009—likely the strongest absolute growth among … institutions with similar investment portfolios. In a show of financial strength during fiscal 2009, Princeton was able …
Googling Google
… Google, which earned $1.1 billion in operating income in the second quarter of 2007 alone, is now the single most important company on the Internet. Catapulted to a position of power by an ingenious and effective search engine, Google …
Issue: November-December 2007
Reinhart Named Professor at Kennedy School
… finance expert Carmen M. Reinhart, coauthor with Cabot professor of public policy Kenneth Rogoff of This Time is Different: … of Financial Folly , has been named Zombanakis professor of the international financial system at Harvard Kennedy School …
Genji in Love
… Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Art Museums © President and Fellows of Harvard College Just as a pair of Mandarin ducks, a symbol of conjugal contentment, nestle on the waterside, Genji and his greatest love, Murasaki, cozy …
Issue: January-February 2005
Early-Retirement Program and Other Cost-Cutting Measures
… The University on February 10 unveiled a voluntary … members who are age 55 and over, have 10 or more years of participation service, and are participants in the … bulk of the new space); and undergraduate financial aid had risen $55 million annually, from $81 million in fiscal year …
Jodie Foster to Receive 2025 Radcliffe Medal
… The actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster will receive this … for Best Actress in The Accused (1989) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Foster made her directorial debut in … including Money Monster (2016) and television episodes of Orange Is the New Black and House of Cards. In addition …
At Home with Harvard: Rewriting History
… This is the eighth installment in Harvard Magazine ’s series “At … unique access to Harvard’s faculty gives us the privilege of getting to know University professors, go deep into their … that has evolved rapidly in recent decades, giving rise to new historical interpretations and methods that you …
Famous Comedian, “Dangerous” Playwright
… Both a playwright and stage actor, he has been one of the busiest performers in contemporary film and television, … in My Dinner with André (1981) and last for the rest of the French auteur’ s career. Shawn has worked with …
Issue: March-April 2011
Electing Overseers
… An apparent confluence of events—continuing study about how better to engage alumni, the challenge posed by a petition slate of candidates for election to the Board of Overseers last …
Issue: November-December 2016
Humans on Horseback
… Throughout much of Eurasia, a single pastoralist culture that thrived … from India to Russia to Western Europe. How could a band of animal herders centered on the grassy steppe north of the Caspian Sea have expanded its …
Cycling Sightseers
… The Landscape Architect’s Guide to Boston is an online collection of tours through 26 neighborhoods, including South Boston, Jamaica Plain, and a few in Cambridge, many off the tourist track. The point is to give Boston’s 12 …
Issue: July-August 2016