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Kennedy School Commencement Address
… Listen to the live audio recording. … eo:http://harvardmagazine.com/sites/default/files/media/kristof-2007.mp3 width:220 height:20] Speech as delivered by … of social entrepreneurs. And certainly Darfur and the rise of the Save Darfur movement is an example of that. One …
Football 2023: Harvard 41-Cornell 23
… apologies to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, LL.D. 1859, that’s the capsule description of the performance of Harvard’s Charles DePrima on Friday night at Harvard …
The Day’s Events: Friday, May 31
… Mark Robbins RI ’03, and Augusta Read Thomas BI ’91. Watch the panel live at 10:30 A.M. on Radcliffe’s website. The Radcliffe Day luncheon begins at 12:30 P.M. in … Radcliffe Yard. Jane Alexander , an actor and former head of the National Endowment for the Arts, will give the …
“Our American History”
… Art dealer Judy Goffman Cutler began collecting American illustrations in the early 1970s with a few pen-and-ink drawings by Charles … to be transferred from original fine art. Meanwhile, the rise of railroads allowed products and periodicals to become …
Issue: July-August 2015
Money and Military Recruiting
… With a fiscal gun at the University’s head, Harvard Law School (HLS) has reversed … The armed services now have access to students through the Office of Career Services (OCS), rather than through informal …
Issue: November-December 2005
Visiting Hours
… until shadows blossom. But if that process is a kind of alchemy, then instant film is sorcery, trapping a moment behind a pane of plastic—10 discrete layers of chemicals in a precise …
Issue: May-June 2018
Jimmy Carter and James Agee ’32
… published in 1941 when Carter was 17. Why strangely enough? The book and its history explain. It was reported, written, and rejected as a 30,000-word piece of journalism titled “Cotton Tenants: Three Families” for … for a short story. He took it from the King James version of the Bible—“Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers …
Zachary R. Mider ’01 Wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
… The Pulitzer Prize board today announced the 2015 winners … exposé on Illinois residential treatment centers for wards of the state. Jackson and Marx were previously Pulitzer … P. Kallaugher ’77 was named a finalist in the category of editorial cartooning for his work for The Baltimore Sun. …
An American Empire?
… Only a year and a week separated the events of September 11, 2001, when Americans felt so … weapons of mass destruction. We have no cause to be surprised: the Bush Doctrine has emerged from a public …
Issue: November-December 2002
Vacationing with a Purpose
… at work and quotidian tasks that can wear you down? Envious of your kids’ or grandkids’ camp vacations? Take heart: adults, too, can benefit from the freedom and fun inherent in New England’s summers. Many … for two nights and $1,060 for five nights.) Located on the rise of a country road, the school’s administrative office …
Issue: March-April 2024
ROTC Returns
… on March 4 by President Drew Faust and U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus clears the way for the Naval Reserve … the College curriculum—potential deal-breakers—do not arise now. Faust had previously indicated strong support for …
Issue: May-June 2011
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Named Class Day Speaker
… The Harvard College Class of 2022 has selected Michelle Wu … to low-income small-business owners at the Community Enterprise Project. She then served as a statewide constituency …
Making It
… wine, Harvard alumni throughout New England are asserting their entrepreneurial rights to create delicious things to … that is, which otherwise consumes more than 100 hours of their week and all of their attention. But Im not very … the first farm in 1996, national sales of organic food have risen 20 percent, he reports, with organic meat sales alone …
Issue: November-December 2006
Harvard Goes Gaga
… Lady Gaga may have been the center of attention at the event held today to announce the launch of her Born This Way Foundation , but the foundation’s …
Getaway to Italy: Splendor in the Ruins
… From the Leaning Tower of Pisa to the city of Venice (which could sink any day now), some of …