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When Harvard Was Upsized
… long lines, waiting lists? You'd have suffered mightily in the fall of 1946, when Harvard experienced a population explosion of unparalled proportions. That year's influx of 9,000 war …
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
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, …
Gun Violence
… Every year, 40,000 people in the United States are killed with firearms. But another … are shot and survive. A new study quantifying the impacts of gun violence on these survivors and their families finds that they face increased risk of mental health disorders and substantially higher …
“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 …
Honorable Forester
… accomplished in those steamy reaches, he has been awarded the Japan Prize in the category of “Science and Technology of Harmonious Coexistence.” He … and micro-organisms that depend on the trees and that comprise the bulk of a forest’s biodiversity. When researchers …
Issue: September-October 2007
Harvard Headlines: Blumenthal's Military Service, Varmus Named to Cancer Post, Harvard Student Accused of Fraud
… One of the major national news stories this week involves … general Richard Blumenthal ’67 about his military service. The New York Times reported Monday that Blumenthal had never … support." The Times article included several other examples of misleading comments from Blumenthal, who is running for …
Surprise Endings
… It was the championship season that wasn’t. Heavily favored to … outscoring them 205-67. Then came the October Surprise. In a calamitous fourth quarter at Princeton, Harvard … it out for the championship on the second-to-last weekend of the season. That brought the November Surprise. A Penn …
Issue: January-February 2013
Commencement Confetti
… HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF (MORE BETTER) "Our records of the first Commencement, in 1642, show that all nine students … to become an overachiever; through H. h. erectus, as it rises in stature in the second year (but drinks from huge …
Issue: July-August 2004
Architecture and Urbanism: Shanghai and Beyond
… Panelists : Mohsen Mostafavi , Dean, Graduate School of Design Alex Krieger , Professor in practice of urban … and principal designer, Turenscape Dean Mostafavi began the discussion by noting that the Graduate School of Design … evident in the broad streets of Pudong, with the resulting rise of gridlocked traffic (as in Beijing, routinely) and …
Issue: May-June 2010
Finding Work That Works for You
… be. This can be a blessing--or a burden. Some people like the freedom to switch careers or to develop a different … clients I see range in age from 22 to 68," she says. "My profession exists because millions of people need help … 'Here's how you do it,'" he recalls. "I was a little surprised to see them doing it now." Capello had, in effect, …
Issue: March-April 2002
An Extraordinary Season
… Regardless of your distance from greater Boston, you likely know that Harvard slogged through a semester of record-breaking—and patience-testing—winter weather. The type of meteorological event immortalized by Ralph …
Issue: May-June 2015
When Grass Isn’t Greener
… with large, unhealthy pine trees that grew too close to their home and had to come down, Hillary Wyon, A.L.M. ’08, … with moss lawns. In the end they planted a combination of chamomile, thyme, and mint. “It’s really soft, low-growing greenery,” Wyon notes. “And when you walk …
Issue: March-April 2011
Retirement Engine Rebuilt
… with traditional and inflation-protected bonds and hoping they deliver the right payoff decades in the future is a daunting task, even for professionals. And what’s really absurd, says Robert Merton, …
Issue: January-February 2009
Deluxe Food, Garden View
… From the start , when the hostess escorts you to the elevator for … vertical voyage to the second floor. The spectacular sight of those racks of resting wine bottles, each awaiting its moment, is itself …
Issue: January-February 2004