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Cold Comforts
… Perusing social media in recent months, you get the sense that Russia once again looms as America’s great … there are oligarchs and thugs on all sides. In this moment of high-pitched, heated commentary, A Terrible Country , … in her long, difficult life—the war, the purges, the rise of Stalin and the fall of communism—and shape an …
Issue: July-August 2018
A Perfect 10
… Routing Penn and Yale in the pivotal games of a history-making season, the football … two perfect seasons, two Ivy titles, an overall record of 33-6, and four straight victories over Yale. Not since …
Issue: January-February 2005
The Day’s Events: Thursday, May 24
… 24, include: Gates to Harvard Yard open at 6:45 A.M. , and there will be a morning prayer service for graduating … “Villanelle for an Anniversary,” the choral version of Seamus Heaney's 350th anniversary poem, will debut during … ceremonies at the undergraduate Houses, graduate, and Professional Schools. At 2 P.M. , healthcare reformer Dr. …
Litmus Test for a Law
… Until the mid 1980s , victims of domestic abuse who called the police could expect the officers to do little more than tell the abusive spouse to …
Issue: January-February 2008
Radcliffe Institute Dean Liz Cohen to Step Down
… Jones professor of American studies Lizabeth Cohen, who was appointed dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in early 2012 … several months, announced today that she would step down at the end of the academic year. She will return to her …
The Day’s Events: Wednesday, May 23
… 23, include: ROTC commissioning with Ray Mabus, Secretary of the U.S. Navy. The ceremony will take place at 11:30 A.M. in Tercentenary Theatre. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) will celebrate Centennial …
At the College, Price Tag and Financial Aid Both Edge Up
… announced today that undergraduate tuition and fees for the 2010-2011 academic year will total $50,724, an increase of 3.8 percent from last year’s $48,868. At the same time, … change in the financial burden for the more than 60 percent of students who receive aid. The estimated average …
No Doubt
… Liedel ’21 decided she wanted to play soccer, following in the footsteps of her older brother. Her parents said sure, go for it. The … who made it clear that a girl didn’t belong on a field of boys. “They were like, ‘You should not be playing this …
Issue: September-October 2019
"Un original"
… As is its custom, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting of December 14, 1999, began with memorial minutes …
Home Sweeter Home
… Don’t curb your enthusiasm: Spring is the ideal time to maximize your home’s value, whether by … organization, and mortgage experts in and around Cambridge offer helpful ideas on how to make “home sweet home” even … more energy efficient, says Joseph Kennard. M.Arch. ’92, of Boston’s Kennard Architects. “Low energy consumption is …
Issue: March-April 2020
Yesterday’s News
… 1920 The football team, playing its first and last postseason … the 50-year-old “Commons,” a money-loser since the end of World War I. Plans for the hall’s future employment, say … with the Alumni Placement Service and Student Employment Office “to make careers as clear [to] undergraduates as the …
Issue: January-February 2025
Harvard’s Sober Annual Financial Report
… Shaped as it is by the conventions of accounting, an institution’s annual … two years ago, and holdings in the real-assets classes have risen by nearly $4 billion.) Capital expenditures during …
An Innovator in Allston
… (especially in business, but also in government and other spheres of public life) have lost legitimacy,” Harvard Business … announced his appointment on May 4. But now, a series of crises--he named the technology bubble, the Enron scandal and …
Issue: July-August 2010
The Day’s Events: Wednesday, May 29
… include: ROTC commissioning with President Drew Faust and the guest speaker, Lieutenant Colonel David R. Downer ’63 … to Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) will celebrate the Centennial … live on WHRB (audio) and harvard.edu (video). Geoffrey Canada , Ed.M. ’75, L.H.D. ’01, president and CEO of …
Reading Is Elemental
… In my dentist’s office , when I was a child, was a sign that ran: Without teeth there can be no chewing. Without chewing there can be no … in my ideal schooling, a familiarity with authors would arise as three successive cycles of literary acquaintance …
Issue: September-October 2011