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Early BMOCs
… For the casual art lover, early American painting begins with John Singleton Copley’s portrait of Paul Revere. But as Theodore E. Stebbins Jr.—curator of American art emeritus at the Harvard Art Museums—points …
Issue: March-April 2015
The Couple Who Lit Up “Lawn on D”
… On weekend nights in summer, hundreds of Bostonians descend upon “Lawn on D,” a small park on South Boston’s D Street. They can be seen playing board games, enjoying a beer, … or just relaxing with friends and family. But most of them are waiting for a turn to sit on one of the park’s …
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 …
Veritas
… One of the first complaints I received after my election as … president was a strongly worded email about a course being offered at Harvard College. It contained a link to an … shared hundreds of times over, that simply juxtaposed the course description with an opinion piece about the …
Issue: January-February 2019
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
Reasons to Rejoice
… We’ve learned a lot about how to gather since last year, when so many of us were relegated to remote holiday soirees. This year, we’re ready to reunite—withprecautions, of course—and there are plenty of ways to honor the season …
Issue: November-December 2021
Cinema Veritas
… In the Carpenter Center theater last May, a seminar-size class … mutant” course given by Peter Galison, Mallinckrodt professor of the history of science and of physics, and … among faculty members from a number of departments gave rise to a formal Film Studies Committee sponsored by VES. …
Issue: November-December 2005
Fixing Medieval Wine
… Every year, French wholesalers airlift cases of Beaujolais Nouveau worldwide so that wine shops can start selling bottles to the public on the third Thursday in November. In the … Bordeaux to Bristol, it was jolted by oxcart to the manor of Melksham Beanacre, where Whittocksmead might have stood …
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 …
News in Brief
… his retirement on January 17. He went out on top: in the 2023 season the Crimson finished 8-2 and shared the Ivy … . Art Acquisition The estate of the American sculptor David Smith has made a gift to the Harvard Art Museums of Medals for Dishonor, his series of 14 cast bronze reliefs …
Issue: March-April 2024
University People
… Richard E. Oldenburg '54 was elected president of the Board of Overseers for 2001-2002, his last year of service on the …
A Dazzling Class of Zebras
… interim president for 140 days,” began Alan M. Garber at the baccalaureate ceremony, an occasion when the president … in this meeting, that I might be less than prepared to offer parting words of wisdom so late in your undergraduate journey—coming into …
From AIDS to Art
… like other plagues , HIV/AIDS has brought death and grief, fear … to imagine fictions like Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series, or Tony Kushner’s epic drama Angels in … on increased research funding and faster regulatory review of drugs, and in 1990 even attempted to seize control of the …
Issue: November-December 2009
Campus Survey: Sexual Assault, Harassment Remain Serious Problems
… On October 15, Harvard released the results of a survey intended to estimate the prevalence … the prevalence of nonconsensual sexual contact has risen slightly overall. Chart from the Harvard AAU steering …
A “Scholar’s Scholar”
… Claudine Gay arrived in Cambridge in the fall of 1992 as a first-year graduate student, lugging … Voting Rights Act, the number of black officeholders had risen dramatically, giving political scientists plenty of …
Issue: September-October 2023