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Unprecedented
… people who are steeped in our institutional history hear the word “unprecedented,” they are understandably skeptical. … one point or another over the past 383 years, and our Class of 2020 is not the first group of graduates unsettled by … and social conflict, natural disasters and public health crises, economic recession and depression: Harvard has borne …
Issue: July-August 2020
Brevia
… EVP Exits Katherine (“Katie”) N. Lapp, executive vice president since … campus planning and design, and the police and ombudsman’s office. But she played a visible, leading role in Harvard’s … Khan Academy, who gave $1.1 billion to anchor the new enterprise—the largest single gift in the university’s history. …
Issue: July-August 2022
Modern and Historic
… More than 500 people turned out in June for the inaugural gala picnic at Philip Johnson’s Glass House , … long-awaited event raised $750,000 for further preservation of the most celebrated modern house in the Northeast. Public … preserving the Gropius house, or even those that comprise Six Moon Hill. But whether all modern houses should be …
Issue: September-October 2007
Election 2012: Crimson in Congress
… Of the three presidential candidates with Harvard … Mitt Romney, J.D.-M.B.A. ’74; and Jill Stein ’72, M.D. ’79—the incumbent kept his seat. But on Capitol Hill, a larger … That body will contain 42 alumni (defined as graduates of or matriculants in a degree program at the University), …
On Judicial Interpretation
… Not until page 201 of his erudite book The Invisible Constitution does Laurence H. Tribe drop the … sense if they are seen as the triangular facets that comprise the geodesic surface. Beneath the facet that is the …
Issue: March-April 2009
Cambridge 02138
… Affordable College Costs In “ Reopening the Doors to College ” (March-April, page 24), Theda Skocpol … costs. Yes, college keeps costing more. At the University of Texas, instruction costs since 1990 have risen annually 2.6 percent after adjusting for inflation. …
Issue: May-June 2009
Yesterday's News
… reveals plans to build a library at Harvard in memory of her son, Harry Elkins Widener ’07, who perished with his father on the Titanic. 1932 The observance of Class Day is moved out of the Yard to the quadrangle …
Issue: May-June 2007
Steeped
… chai lattes from Starbucks or Dunkin’ probably don’t think of the tea tree originally discovered in Southeast Asia. They don’t picture the earliest spring leaves of the Camellia sinensis var . sinensis , hand-picked in the …
Issue: March-April 2022
Presidents, Congress, and Foreign Policy
… Professor of government Dustin Tingley is interested in the mechanisms that make politics work, especially in the … character of the nation’s relationships abroad. Facing crises in Syria and Ukraine, many critics in the United …
Issue: May-June 2016
When “Failure” Means Success
… we haven’t experienced failures here. After four years at the school, most students, if we’re being honest, can recall … then the University’s extracurricular culture—where many of the most sought-after clubs involve a months-long “comp” … the rejection email arrived, I was not particularly surprised, but I was devastated and embarrassed. I suspected …
Issue: March-April 2023
Radcliffe Day: Gender Equity, Melinda French Gates
… After the University staged virtual Baccalaureate and graduation … on students and honorands , and finally, invited the wisdom of distinguished guest speakers , attention turned today to Radcliffe Day, the traditional Friday focal point of Harvard’s marathon Commencement week. A noon panel on …
Lydialyle Gibson , Juliet Isselbacher
Harmonious Coexister Honored
… Peter Shaw Ashton, Bullard professor of forestry emeritus, went to Tokyo in April to collect his Japan Prize in the presence of Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of …
Issue: September-October 2007
Marc Hauser Resigns
… Professor of psychology Marc D. Hauser, who was found "solely … according to a letter dated July 7 that was published in the Boston Globe yesterday. Hauser's letter did not mention the misconduct findings; he wrote that he planned to tackle …
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 …
Prescription: Music
… Nowadays , no one from Faulkner Hospital bothers Stephen Wright ’64 on Thursday nights. But when he … Orchestra (LSO) in 1993—before he became Faulkner’s chief of medicine and could pick his hours—he kept a pager on his … members still work in healthcare. That doesn’t surprise its president, Lisa Wong ’79, who used to play her …
Issue: May-June 2008