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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 …
Pre-Pixel Portraits
… Harvard graduates had a powerful instinct to preserve their class identities in portraiture: 85 of the 88 members of the College class of 1852 traveled to Boston to sit for …
Issue: May-June 2015
Envisioning Science and Engineering in Allston
… Eleven months after the surprise announcement that much of the School of …
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
James R. Houghton to Retire from Harvard Corporation
… James R. Houghton '58, M.B.A. '62, senior fellow of the President and Fellows of Harvard College (the formal name for the Harvard …
Letters from Prison
… with prison? Eight years ago, Jakurski Family associate professor of business administration Eugene Soltes began to wonder … leaders, many with families and sterling reputations in the business community, to commit white-collar crimes. …
Issue: November-December 2016
Babar Comes to Houghton Library
… Published in 1935 , ABC de Babar— the focus of a current exhibit at Harvard—was the fourth book in French illustrator Jean de Brunhoff’s series about a little elephant in a green three-piece …
At Home with Harvard: Remarkable Alumni
… 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 …
Joyful Noise
… Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum are accustomed to sharing the stage: since its inception in 1971, its singers have often sung alongside fellow undergraduates in the …
Curricular Course
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean William C. Kirby has outlined the work on revising the undergraduate curriculum that he … proposals that can be presented to the faculty by the end of the academic year." In a letter to professors and …
Issue: November-December 2004
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
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
War and Peace at Memorial Church
… contribution to world peace," said Eric Anderson, provost of Eton College, England, who delivered the sermon in Memorial Church on November 10. He spoke on the Sunday nearest Veterans Day, at a service of commemoration of benefactors and of the war dead—an …
Issue: January-February 2003
Rethinking Libraries for a Digital Future
… 2.0. And it is actively digitizing its holdings to make them available to audiences within and beyond the Harvard … people interact with information. The most fundamental of those interactions is examined in a curated, online exploration of the intellectual, cultural, and political history of …
How to Make a Mammal
… a mess ,” Sharad Ramanathan thinks, contemplating a group of cells growing in a glass dish. There are different cell types everywhere, the random … world’s leading industrial research and development enterprise, he was in the company of scientific luminaries, …
Issue: January-February 2024