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Norse Calypsos, et Cetera
… The polymathic Nicholas D. Humez ’69—silversmith, … author, banjoist, classical philologist, composer of operas and string quartets, poet, cartoonist, music critic, professor of mythology—has a new opus, a suite of tunes …
Issue: July-August 2005
Photographs and Blackness, Barkley L. Hendricks
… Known for bold, full-length paintings of urban black Americans, artist Barkley L. Hendricks was … at Yale and a teaching career at Connecticut College, the debonair artist rarely traveled without his camera. Thousands of images, catalogued since his death in 2017, inspired …
Issue: May-June 2022
A Life in This World
… The child, we're told, is father to the man, and one might … ("nerdy, squirrelly, yet bold enough within the sphere of a loner" is about it), next to nothing about his … prep school, and reduces his college years to a short list of eminent mentors inside "sumptuous Harvard" (Archibald …
Royall House and Slave Quarters
… mansion in what’s now Medford, Massachusetts. To operate the surrounding 500-acre farm, enormous by colonial-era … standards, he also shipped north across the ocean “a parcel of negroes.” Those 27 enslaved people were plucked from … economic importance in the North—which still come as a surprise to some visitors. The quarters consist of the 1737 …
Issue: September-October 2020
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 …
Eating Around Cambridge
… Square. Options range widely, but here’s a selection of some staff favorites. Enjoy Orinoco Kitchen’s South American food on a lovely patio tucked away from the crowds in Harvard Square (56 JFK Street). Sip a … sampling datiles, bacon-wrapped dates, or a mechada, a soft corn-flour sandwich ( arepa ) packed with slow-cooked …
Issue: May-June 2023
Find Meaning in Your Work, Says Ann Moore at HBS
… On Wednesday , Ann Moore, M.B.A. ’78, told students gathered on the Baker Library Lawn at Harvard Business School … until 2010, when she left the company. Forbes named her one of the most powerful women in business 10 times. Moore … degree candidates, Moore said she would have liked to reprise those words, but didn’t. “I knew I had to come up with …
Harvard Football’s 2019 Season Outlook
… The 2019 Harvard football season—the school’s 146th—will … Here are a few things to catch up on before the 2019 kickoff. THE OPENER . The first game will be at San Diego’s Torero Stadium on Saturday, September 21. Kickoff: 4 p.m. (EST). The game will be broadcast on WRCA 1330 …
The Honorable David H. Souter to Speak at Commencement
… Souter '61, LL.B. '66, who retired as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court last June, will be the principal … afternoon exercises on May 27. This is the text of the University's official announcement: David H. Souter, …
A Fresh Look at Freshman Week
… Though designed for the College class of 2013, the Crimson ’s guide to Freshman … a fun trip down memory lane for alumni. Some articles offer modern takes on time-honored Harvard experiences: Emma …
Football: Yale 34-Harvard 29
… during come-from-behind victories at Dartmouth and Penn, the Harvard football team fell through on Saturday at the Stadium in The 140th playing of The Game, losing to Yale 34-29. The defeat, which snapped … guys worked their butts off all season, and I was not surprised that they were fighting to the end in the game.” The …
The Day’s Events: Thursday, May 28
… 28, include: Gates to Harvard Yard open at 6:45 A.M., and there will be a morning prayer service for graduating … ceremonies at the undergraduate Houses, graduate, and professional schools. At 2 P.M. Rajesh Panjabi, co-founder and CEO of Last Mile Health will speak to Harvard Medical School …
Close Call
… Ten days before Commencement, early on the cool, fresh morning of Monday, May 13, the lilacs and azaleas at Dana Palmer … Kennedy School’s class day audience that amid global crises and challenges, their international network could, and …
John S. Rosenberg , Max J. Krupnick
Fish Tales
… The Harvard Museum of Natural History in November unveiled its new exhibition on marine life. The centerpiece (shown here), a cleverly lit diorama, … mounted specimens in surrounding cases (from the millions of molluscs and fish among the comparative zoology holdings) …
Issue: January-February 2016
Neat Lawns, Nice Neighborhoods
… completely loyal Harvard alumnus, but I can’t help thinking of Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson as the epitome of a faculty member at the University of … sudden as it may be in this book, should not come as a surprise: he has a burning, abiding passion to improve the …
Issue: September-October 2006