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"Hard Problems" in the Social Sciences
… In 1900, mathematician David Hilbert drew up a list of 23 hard problems … in particular patterns, were thought to be the domain of philosophy or psychology--explicitly not scientific. But …
Issue: July-August 2010
The Man Who Has Been King
… Three times , Hoon Lee ’94 has been lord of all he surveyed on stage: as Ferdinand of Navarre in the Public Theater’s Love’s Labor’s Lost ; as Polixenes, …
Issue: March-April 2016
Yesterday's News
… 1922 Sports devotee R.S. Hale, A.B. 1891, suggests to the Bulletin that there be "two Harvard football teams," instead of one, noting that when Harvard plays Yale in tennis, there … latest parody, a mock Newsweek . For the 750,000-copy enterprise, the group dress as Communist Party members celebrating …
Issue: November-December 2002
Where the Women Are—and Aren’t
… Women now hold 27 percent of the assistant, associate, and full professorships in Harvard’s faculties--a new high. And 22 …
Issue: January-February 2011
Tom Frieden Named HSPH Commencement Speaker
… Tom Frieden , M.D., M.P.H., who became director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in … diseases worldwide, will be this year’s Harvard School of Public Health Centennial Commencement speaker on …
“Find My Real Husband”
… Arthur Kleinman —Rabb professor of anthropology, professor of medical anthropology, and … ( he has long worked in China ) to explore and enrich the dimensions of care beyond the familiar domains of health …
Issue: September-October 2019
Storytelling with Sondheim
… Act I: John Weidman ’68 spends the first 13 years of his life in Westport, Connecticut, … where he plays Little League baseball and dreams of turning pro. Then he realizes: “There are no major league …
Issue: January-February 2011
Yannatos Remembered
… The last Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) concert James Yannatos conducted, in the spring of 2009, ended with a performance of Brahms’s first symphony—a work that reads like an …
Psychologist Marc Hauser on Leave
… Professor of psychology Marc Hauser, who studies animal cognition and … Sense of Right and Wrong (2006), will be on leave for the coming academic year. This morning's Boston Globe reports that the leave follows an internal investigation that found …
Spring Remains Remote
… Nearly one month into autumn, Harvard’s principal professional schools today began to announce that spring teaching and learning will for the most part continue online, following the model that has … announcements lacked any element of dramatic surprise: Coronavirus cases are on the rise in a majority of …
Frederick Law Olmsted
… and 1950, Frederick Law Olmsted, A.M. 1864, LL.D. ’93, and the firm he founded shaped many of our nation’s notable open spaces, ranging from New York … to the Berkeley and Stanford campuses and the landscaping of Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital (he chose its site, in …
Issue: July-August 2007
E-mail Encore
… Following the March 10 Boston Globe report that resident deans’ e-mail accounts were checked during an investigation of how a confidential Administrative Board (AB) memo was … interested in the Administrative Board case and was kept apprised of its progress throughout the fall. Back in …
Money-Management Makeover
… The value of Harvard’s endowment increased by $3.3 billion during the fiscal year ended June 30, rising to $29.2 billion. The 12.8 percent growth, from the year-earlier total of $25.9 billion, reflects a 16.7 percent investment return …
Aidan Robert Scully ’25, Latin Salutatory: “De Hereditatibus Peregrinis” (“On Foreign Inheritances”)
… Praeses Garber, aestimatissimi decani, sapientissimi professores, honestissimi hospites, amici, familiae, et … Quis ratio loquendi Latine?! Patientiam rogo; rationem proferam. Ante illam diem gaudii maximi, vincula nos iungentia … sumus dicere “barbari ad portas!” cum clamabamus aut “mathematicus in classe litterarum!” aut “concentrator …
Nuts
… When Primus was a little one, he had the good fortune to live near Broadway in Manhattan. Each … and Dolls. Then we would stroll over to the Harvard Club of New York on 44th Street and sit by the fire in the paneled richness of the place. Even the youngest among us was permitted a …
Issue: November-December 2015