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Celebrate Summer in New England
… Rhode Island Located near popular public beaches and the Watch Hill seaside community, Westerly is a year-round center of arts activity and percolating revitalization. Grand … ). Worcester, Massachusetts It may surprise some to know that this former industrial giant of a …
Issue: July-August 2011
Upstream Warrior
… In retrospect, it seems like a moment of epiphany, but on that Saturday in June 1963, it was simply a day of rough, stormy weather on the Thames River in New London, Connecticut. No one … the reaction they are going to get, and they are often surprised," says Peter Raymond, Ed.M. '83, who coached Harvard …
Cambridge 02138
… brain damage, how can Harvard, a university that values the intellect, continue to promote this threat to the intellectual and physical well-being of its students? As a leader in the academic world, Harvard … House, the new guy, hair still dark. Imagine my surprise to see his gray-haired picture on the cover more than …
Issue: January-February 2016
A Rudenstine Retrospective
… Only 10 years ago, at the end of the 1990-1991 academic year, Harvard and the … hospitals, filling one new research tower and giving rise to plans for another (now being built), where complex …
Digital Kids
… A front-page article in today's Boston Globe looks into the use of digital media by very young children, those aged under six years. One cited study reports that 6 percent of children aged two to five years have their own …
Are Animals “Things”?
… have two children, but with eight-year-old Avery around, it often felt like three. A beloved mixed-breed mutt with flopped-forward Labrador ears, Avery was a member of the family, welcome on the couch, included on vacations, a …
Issue: March-April 2016
Cambridge 02138
… College Crises In their “Colleges in Crisis” (July-August, page 40), Clayton … an outdated and defective “business model” as chief cause of the financial trouble in which U.S. universities find …
Issue: September-October 2011
Columbia Endowment Investments Gain 17 Percent
… endowment investments appreciated 17.3 percent in the fiscal year ended June 30, according to reports in the … that distributions from the endowment fund about 13 percent of Columbia's operating budget (versus 35 percent for … Smith, Middlebury, Trinity, Dickinson, and the University of Tulsa—whose endowment funds are managed through Investure …
Rugger Mothers
… what I expected from college, but I fell in with a crowd of foul-mouthed girls who spent Saturdays brawling and trying to score. … took the pitch, and on April 17, 1982, Radcliffe was surprised to win its first match, defeating MIT 10 to 6. Louy …
Issue: September-October 2007
Arthur Augustus Johnson
… Johnson “has perhaps helped more colored youths than any other colored figure in Boston and Greater Boston.” So … “Sheep” Jackson in 1945, reflecting on the contributions of a unique figure in the history of Boston baseball and of the Harvard of the 1920s and …
Kasey Uhlenhuth , Harry R. Lewis
Issue: September-October 2023
Harvard: The Land Where Nothing Is On Time
… many things at Harvard, but punctuality was not among them. In Harvardspeak, “on Harvard time” means seven minutes … a student may have back-to-back classes at opposite ends of the campus. But as someone who grew up in Asia, where … starting time for a class in Cambridge is approaching, I often find myself frantically running to the classroom, …
Driving on I-95
… I grew up in a town of roads—roads that forked into obscurity, curved around mountain edges, fatal to deer and the neighbor’s dog. Roads that ran parallel to old stone … I could ride my three-geared red boys’ bike in the safety of our development, up and down driveways, in figure eights …
An Overseers Challenge Slate—and More on Fossil-Fuel Divestment
… daily—Donald Trump formally initiates U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement; 11,000-plus scientists declare a … Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy, now professor of the practice of public health, becomes president of a …
Faster, Higher, Stronger
… not, nor is an athletic archetype that Joslin represented: the three-letter woman. She played varsity in three sports … hockey, and lacrosse. Joslin was in all likelihood the last of the three-sport Mohicans. College teams now recruit … ice hockey. In still other instances, Crimson squads have risen from humble records to great ones, as with men’s and …
Issue: September-October 2011
Yesterday's News
… 1923 Samuel M. Scott, A.B. 1886, questions "the rapid increase in membership" at the College and its … an academic institution, fully equipped to supply the youth of the country with as much useful knowledge as they are … the College from the University, abandoning the policy of "indiscriminate expansion," and "limiting students to the …
Issue: May-June 2003