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Harvard Baccalaureate 2015: “Live Beyond Fear”
… “You entered as the most diverse class in the history of the College,” President Drew Faust told the graduating seniors of 2015 in her May 26 Baccalaureate address. But “what has …
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
A Shakespearean Romance
… on Romantic poetry, I soon gravitated to Widener X, the oddly signified office of Cabot professor of English literature G. Blakemore … Shakespeare’s source material and on the age of Dryden—comprised a handful of dedicated souls (even the …
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
Image-Guided Brachytherapy
… Intraoperative MRI has also improved the practice of minimally invasive therapies for other … The two big problems posed by this approach are the lack of "global" visual feedback and the lack of mechanical …
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. …
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
Striking Distance
… Eli Dershwitz ’18 (’19) turned in his finals and headed out of Cambridge for the summer, he was the top-ranked men’s saber fencer in the … points from each tournament pushed him to the top of the world rankings. “It was a big summer,” he allows with …
Issue: November-December 2018
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 …
“To Turn Caring Into Action”
… Listen to the audio recording: … as delivered by William H. Gates III at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. President Bok, former … the Internet and 24-hour news, it is still a complex enterprise to get people to truly see the problems. When an …
Inside Harvard’s Home for Books
… The soundtrack of the Harvard Depository is, like that of most libraries, …
Compensation Flap Continued
… Further news coverage of the compensation of Harvard Management Company's (HMC) …
Issue: September-October 2004
Fighting for Afghanistan
… The sound of a bomb detonating breaks the stillness of Kandahar’s morning hours. To Sarah Chayes ’84, in her … Radio “smoke jumper”—a foreign correspondent dispatched to crises—she had left her Paris base numerous times to report …
Issue: January-February 2008
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 …
Harvard Resists Government Demands
… rejecting new, sweeping, and “unprecedented” demands from the federal government concerning Harvard’s internal … under “review,” and on April 3 it presented a sweeping list of broad requirements for Harvard to fulfill , extending to … changes in admissions and hiring, and abandonment of all policies and programs pertaining to diversity, …