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Architecture in Concert
… The architectural competition is a venerable ritual. Held for important public buildings like the Houses of Parliament in London (in 1835), competitions solicit … stimulate public discussion, publicize the building, and offer little-known talents a chance at a major project. …
Issue: September-October 2012
Big D
… prevailed at Harvard Stadium on November 22, and so did the home team. With a titanic defensive performance, Harvard shut out Yale, 10-0, topping off a 9-1 season and securing a share of the Ivy League championship. Harvard won the Ivy trophy a …
Issue: January-February 2009
Reliably Enterprising
… people return to because it’s comfortable--but surprising. The venue is cozy, with a dash of the sultry: walls are persimmon orange against dark … glass vases hang gracefully by a very small bar that offers well-selected wines and microbrewed beers. The work …
Issue: November-December 2010
Electoral Eccentricity
… Americans elect our presidents as we do: spending billions of dollars on campaign hoopla and social-media flame wars, and then turning the whole shebang over to the bewiggery of an Electoral College? Stirling professor of history and …
Issue: July-August 2020
Advising
… I started advising first-year students in 1977, telling them mostly what I wished someone had told me when I was in … earlier. In the years since, I have counseled hundreds of young people at MIT, Tufts, and now Harvard. I have … of excitement and anxiety—no matter when in life they arise—are opportunities to grow beyond one’s imagination. …
Issue: January-February 2023
Harvard Adopts Quantitative Reasoning, Studies Preregistration
… Facing an unusually full agenda during its last full meeting of the academic year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) … defined distributional requirement. Thus Gen Ed now comprises: four purpose-built courses from the curriculum’s …
Harvard’s $2.5-Billion Arts and Sciences Campaign
… Speaking on the morning of October 26, Dean Michael D. Smith introduced … learning. He must also have enjoyed springing a surprise. Appearing on stage in a blazer and khakis, he shed his …
Nancy Pelosi: “At Last We Have a Seat at the Table”
… Nancy Pelosi’s very first meeting at the White House after she became the first woman chosen Speaker of the House of Representatives, in the 110th Congress, was unlike any …
Compensation Flap Continued
… Further news coverage of the compensation of Harvard Management Company's (HMC) …
Issue: September-October 2004
Sesquicentennial Soirée
… On the first warm night in May, several hundred literary New … on Park Avenue. They were celebrating—not the publication of a recent book (despite the presence of authors like Louis Begley ’54 and Nell Freudenberger …
Issue: September-October 2016
The Day’s Events: Tuesday, May 27
… Events for Tuesday, May 27, include the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, with poet Donald Revell and orator Andrea Barrett , and the Baccalaureate Service for the College class of 2014. For those not able to attend, both ceremonies will …
Testing Trap
… Supporters of the reauthorization, last January, of the Elementary and … half the states had met the requirements. It came as no surprise to learn that by the year 2000, many schools with Title …
Issue: September-October 2002
Brevia
… Scientific Ventures Albert J. Weatherhead Celia J. Weatherhead Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Flexible funding for … relevant taxes. The hotel, just downriver from the new high-rise graduate student housing at One Western Avenue, is …
Issue: March-April 2005
Soaked, but Spirited
… Nature, they say, abhors a vacuum. Perceiving one over eastern … Theatre—on October 13, it filled the skies with water, lots of water. An encore the next day amounted to a deluge in … a celebratory cake-cutting to commence. And so a long list of activities was augmented by the un planned: de facto …
Issue: January-February 2012
Personal, Political, Physiological
… malaria seems at first to be an equal-opportunity killer; the parasite, transmitted by mosquitoes, affects women and … susceptible to the disease. Meanwhile, social notions of gender may have an effect on outcomes as well: men, … to the disease, while women, caring for children and often lacking autonomy, may be less likely to seek …