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Code Is Law
… Our founders feared a newly empowered federal government; the Constitution is written against that fear. John Stuart … book On Liberty is written against that regulation. Many of the progressives in the twentieth century worried about the injustices of the market. The reforms of the market, and the safety …
Brevia
… Park Plans Proceed Although the University’s plans for completing its first science … community amenities promised to the neighborhood as part of the long-term ambition to develop academic facilities … park scheduled to be installed behind the local branch of the Boston Public Library, on North Harvard Street. …
Issue: September-October 2009
"Listen to One Another": Harvard Commencement
… For a newish president, Lawrence S. Bacow has had a lot of practice with the solemn ritual and spirited hoopla of graduations. He was … divest its endowment holdings in fossil-fuel enterprises. Other speakers of note. Elsewhere around campus and …
John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet
Mackintoshed Parade
… “ How long do you think that should be? 9 feet?” “Well, if the roll is 2 feet wide…” “Okay, cut here.” Last Saturday—a … in Eliot (including me) were assembling the skeleton of a giant paper-lantern elephant (Eliot’s mascot) in the … the carnivalesque plans for this anniversary, I was surprised by the openness of it all. O’Neill recalls that the …
Further Undisclosed E-mail Investigations Revealed at Harvard
… In a tense Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting this afternoon, Michael D. Smith, the dean, revealed that additional “concerning … interested in the Administrative Board case and was kept apprised of its progress throughout the fall. Back in …
Harvard Medalists
… D.B.A. ’63, and Betsey Bradley Urschel, Ed.M. ’63—received the 2016 Harvard Medal for “extraordinary service to the … Alumni Association’s (HAA) annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. President Drew Faust read the … below. • When Thomas G. Everett, now director emeritus of the Harvard Bands, arrived in 1971, he found the campus …
Issue: July-August 2016
Prospective Overseers State Their Views
… In light of the importance of the annual election for members of … in the information age must be able to manage data and machines. And the climate crisis will not be solved in … as a G7 central bank governor at the centre of the crises of global finance, the euro, Brexit, climate and …
Revisiting Angela Davis
… 2018 that Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library had acquired the papers of radical activist and academic Angela Davis, an icon since … campus was more thrilled than Elizabeth Hinton. “She’s one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, and …
Issue: September-October 2019
Scott Cook to Address HBS Graduating Class
… The founder of Intuit Inc. —maker of finance software products including TurboTax, Quickbooks, … on Wednesday, May 27. Scott Cook, M.B.A. ’76, began the company in 1983 together with Tom Proulx (then a …
Royal Digits
… How did the Historical Collection in Radiology at the Countway Library of Medicine come to include the x-rays shown here of a man with a cufflink and of a woman with three rings and …
Issue: January-February 2004
Comedy Compulsion
… Nell Scovell ’82 went wherever they’d let her be funny. Her early writing career can be seen as a progression of bigger, freer venues where the bosses would let her crack wise: first the sports sections of The Harvard Crimson and The Boston Globe , then the …
Issue: March-April 2018
Twigs Bent, Trees Go Straight
… In a discussion of criminal-justice issues, former U. S. Attorney General Janet Reno once stated that the life trajectory for most criminals was essentially set by the age of three. Among criminal-justice professionals, an analogous …
Issue: March-April 2004
Lyonel Feininger, Photographer
… work and rose to prominence as an artist who exhibited with the expressionists. Much of his formal work was heavily influenced by cubism, to … Feininger as his first appointment to the teaching staff of the Weimar Bauhaus—but also to figures and seascapes. …
Issue: March-April 2012
Overseer Candidates’ Harvard Priorities
… G iven the important role members of Harvard’s Board of … of large numbers of citizens. There has been an associated rise in income inequality, which has fueled populism and …
“Going Aboard?”
… At the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s annual Moby-Dick Marathon, all 136 chapters of the great American epic—from “Etymology” to … sleep. Fast-forward to the early morning. The sun has risen and those stoic palinuruses who have endured for a …
Issue: November-December 2016