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Bye-bye, Blue Books?
… At its meeting on May 11, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) adopted a … motion that henceforth, “unless an instructor officially informs the Registrar by the end of the first …
Issue: July-August 2010
At Home with Harvard: Crimson Sports Illustrated
… This is the tenth installment in Harvard Magazine ’s series “At … years. This week, we picked out a few key moments and profiles from the past few decades that we think you’ll enjoy. … we finally found out who wrote it. You’ll be surprised by the answer. ~Kristina DeMichele, Digital Content …
Comedy Is Magic
… Harrison Greenbaum was five when his father pulled out a deck of cards and told him to pick one. Greenbaum did, and then … narrative, sometimes playfully political—often arise, he says, from a feeling of love. “For a lot of …
Issue: November-December 2019
Educating “Citizens and Citizen Leaders”
… In his book-lined office in University Hall, Rakesh Khurana keeps handy a well-worn copy of Samuel Atkins Eliot’s 1848 A Sketch of the History of Harvard College and of Its Present State. The …
Issue: July-August 2015
Owen Wister
… One hundred years ago, the Macmillan Company published The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains , a novel about an unnamed Wyoming cattleman. The book became one of the first mass-market bestsellers and stands as the …
Issue: July-August 2002
Sundials in Early Modern Europe
… These Photographs show seventeenth-century printed-paper … As Jennifer Carling and Jonathan Shaw point out in “Spheres of Knowledge,” from the November-December 2011 issue, … to convert among the three different time-telling systems of the day as they traveled from one region to another. … …
Icarus
… There are those who have eaten at Icarus more than a hundred … power in its insistence on very fresh produce and a menu of ever-evolving flavor combinations dubbed "new … on the plate as tall as shark's fins, plunged into wedges of quite tangy caprino. The juicy flesh of the beets …
Issue: November-December 2001
2013 Centennial Citations
… Everett Mendelsohn, PhD ’60, history of science “Possibly no one has done more to establish the history of the life sciences as a recognized university discipline …
FAS Pivots to Campaign Mode—Updated
… At the first Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting of the year, on October 5, Dean Michael D. Smith gave a … members present—perhaps relieved that FAS's financial crises are apparently mostly resolved, perhaps encouraged by …
Admissions Evolving
… The College announced March 28 that 1,937 of 54,008 applicants (3.6 percent) were admitted to the class of 2028. The comparable figures a year earlier were 1,942 …
Issue: May-June 2024
Global Health Aims HIGH
… After a year of consulting with fellow faculty members, the steering committee of the newly named Harvard Initiative for Global Health …
Issue: January-February 2005
Will Warren be Chosen to Head New Consumer Finance Agency?
… Elizabeth Warren has not been formally nominated to head the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection , but it would be hard to tell that from the news coverage. The Gottlieb professor of law , who chaired the panel that oversaw the …
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/arts 617-495-8676 • April 28 through May 1 The College’s annual Arts First Festival hosts events … examines a warrior’s reaction to violence and the trauma of war. • Through March 25 Prometheus Bound. A new …
Issue: March-April 2011
John Harvard
… John Harvard's name is so familiar that it may come as a surprise to learn how much of a man of mystery he is. Most graduates of the university that bears his name know that no picture or …
Ibn al-Haytham
… One of the most distinguished and prolific mathematicians in the medieval tradition of Arabic Islamic science, al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham … the philosophical sciences." In his time "philosophy" comprised all of mathematics, the natural sciences, and theology …
Issue: September-October 2003