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Money-Management Makeover
… The value of Harvards endowment increased by $3.3 billion during the fiscal year ended June 30, rising to $29.2 billion. The 12.7 percent growth, from the year-earlier total of $25.9 billion, reflects a 16.7 percent investment return …
Issue: November-December 2006
Danielle Allen Debates Far-Right Blogger Curtis Yarvin
… Allen . It was an unlikely pairing. Allen is a scholar of and advocate for democracy. Yarvin wants to replace the U.S. government with a monarchy. Allen is one of … has called Yarvin a “powerful” historian . Allen is “surprised by the degree of influence Mr. Yarvin has had, even …
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
“Find Your Way to Heal This World”
… on campus instructed to “watch in your room/suite but…not gather in groups to watch”—dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana urged students to “commit … yourself, your families, your friends, and the well-being of thousands of people here at Harvard and in our …
Global Health at Home
… At its best , American medical care is a sublime blend of science and humanity, a system where doctors routinely transplant the human heart, replace defective joints, and excise tumors … in the United States, families are made whole again by some of the most complex surgical, medical, and pharmaceutical …
Howard Hiatt , Charles Kenney , Mark Rosenberg
Issue: November-December 2016
Why Do Yellow Birds Sing?
… A plant of modest beauty and legendary elusiveness, Shortia … coltsfoot, is a woodland, evergreen, herbaceous herald of spring, about eight inches high, liking moist shade and … incomplete specimen (leaves, stem, and a single fruit) in the mountains of Carolina in 1787 and took it home to …
Issue: May-June 2002
“Water Polo Is Home”
… Later today , the Harvard men’s water polo team will square off in the NCAA final four against top-seeded University of Southern California. Competing in Berkeley, after winning …
Caring for the Caregivers
… disease, Tom Lee picked up a book on caregiving, one of the many he’d devour in those early, frightening weeks, when … that stopped him cold. “It said, make sure you take care of yourself, and leave at least 15 minutes to yourself every …
Issue: January-February 2025
University People
… Dunster House faculty deans Roger B. Porter , IBM professor of business and government, and Ann Porter announced in early March that they would step down at the end of this academic year, …
Issue: May-June 2017
Advising Adventures
… In the course of overhauling the College curriculum, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) deferred undergraduates’ …
Issue: July-August 2007
Crimson Coincidence
… Wright's historic first flight lasted just 12 seconds. The Wright Flyer traveled 120 feet, a skip across the sand … on December 17, 1903, eventually improving to a distance of 852 feet and a time of 59 seconds. Yet on the last flight, with Wilbur at the …
Issue: May-June 2003
A Renaissance for Medieval Classics
… at Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, D.C., has housed one of the world’s greatest collections of material relating to … a collection known as the Arundel lyrics, which comprises love songs, Christmas poems, and ecclesiastic satires, …
Issue: November-December 2010
Walter Channing
… spanning nearly six decades, Walter Channing provided the medical skills and compassionate care women sought as they faced the pain and dangers of childbirth. Channing was born in Newport, Rhode Island, into a family that boasted a signer of the Declaration of Independence, his grandfather William …
Issue: March-April 2004
A Freshman Tradition Begins
… ? It was hard to find on a flawless September 1 as the College inaugurated a new tradition: a celebratory Freshman Convocation for the entering class of 2013 that adapted some of the rituals of Commencement to welcome 1,672 first-years …
Student Sightings: From the People's Republic to Paris
… Two of the magazine's former Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate … so far. Her most recent post, "The Crisis Among Crises" , is a somber reminder of China's continuing difficulties in dealing with …