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Commencement 372 7/8
… During the baccalaureate in Tercentenary Theatre on Tuesday, May 21, interim president Alan M. Garber told the class of 2024, “On Thursday, we of divergent minds will process together into this space.” …
Issue: July-August 2024
A Postmodern Youth
… Zubaida Haque , narrator of The Bones of Grace , envies the moral clarity of her adoptive parents’ …
Issue: July-August 2017
Cambridge 02138
… music (“ Sound as Ever ,” July-August, page 44). He opened the ears of a generation with his fusion of country and rock, and in … many will serve to illustrate. Consider three national crises that have had Harvard participation at the assembly …
Issue: September-October 2023
The Day’s Events: Friday, May 25
… Martha Minow , Ed.M. ’76, “From Front Lines to High Courts: The Law and Social Change.” Panelists include Linda … Renee Landers ’77, and Kathleen Sullivan, J.D. ’81. Watch the panel live at 10:30 A.M. on Radcliffe’s website. The … H. Marshall , Ed.M. ’69, the twenty-fourth chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, will give the …
Chasing History
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report On a wintry day in … old Boston Garden to watch Harvard and Yale compete in one of the most important college basketball games of the season. For one thing, it was Harvard-Yale, …
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
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 …
Robotic Healthcare
… A former physician , now associate clinical professor of medicine at University of California, San Francisco, Victoria Sweet, G ’73, is appalled by the depersonalization of healthcare in its technological, …
Issue: January-February 2018
The Changing Consensus on Healthcare Cost-Sharing
… it was accepted wisdom among economists that shifting more of the burden of medical expenses to patients would help reduce the cost …
Final Clubs: Toward a Vote
… This afternoon, at its second meeting of the semester, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) … to state that it recognizes that tensions sometimes arise between different personal freedoms (e.g., freedom of …
Football: Harvard 23, Princeton 20 (OT)
… The white-jerseyed quarterback picked the low snap from center up off the wet turf and headed left toward the end zone five … out his arms, which grasped the ball—which broke the plane of the goal line. He was IN! The game officials threw their …
Social Engagement
… In 2006, when Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham became chair of the department of African and African American studies , she wanted to …
Issue: November-December 2009
At Home with Harvard: Library Treasures
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about climate … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …
“Lighthouse Thomas”
… In Commencement season, drudges in the press searching for good copy like to celebrate someone … back in time, Primus points to Charles Grandison Thomas, of the College class of 1838, who deserves a spot high in the pantheon of …
Issue: May-June 2013
NO on a Summer's Eve
… One knew, perhaps, that the gas nitric oxide (NO) is a constituent of automobile exhaust and a big player in the formation of smog, and is no laughing matter, such as nitrous oxide, N …
Issue: July-August 2002