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… 1919 The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, “a pioneer without being … precipitate,” votes to establish general examinations for the A.B. in all departments, consonant with President Lowell’s view that no mere aggregation of credits merits a degree unless the student can also prove …
Issue: March-April 2019
Albert Gallatin Browne Jr.
… Within months of his 1857 inauguration, President James Buchanan plunged nearly a third of the U.S. army into an unprecedented power struggle with …
Issue: November-December 2008
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
Fixing Foreign Policy
… This essay is adapted from the 2005-2006 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture, delivered on April 24 under the sponsorship of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Can American … Hersh of the New Yorker broke the Abu Ghraib scandal. James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times revealed that …
Issue: July-August 2006
What the Public—and Teachers—Think About School Choice
… Annually since 2007, Education Next, a journal of opinion and research about education policy, has asked a representative sample of U.S. adults for their opinions on a range of education policies. The design …
Issue: September-October 2016
John Adams, Up-front Guy
… In this twenty-first century era of the second President George Bush, it seems peculiarly appropriate that one of America's leading biographers has turned his attention to …
Continuity and Change
… H ow do you know that the University’s 372 nd Commencement, conducted this … on whether the weather would be fair for the singing of “Fair Harvard”—rather than on vaccination, … approved the first phase of the commercial “enterprise research campus” scheduled to be developed in Allston, …
John S. Rosenberg , Max J. Krupnick
A Balancing Act
… thrive on adrenaline, but when Nico Maffey ’13 takes the stage as a professional hand balancer and acrobat in the national tour of Pippin , the most important thing he has to find is his …
Entrances and Exits
… Braeman Payne , M.B.A. ’70, writes recalling her experience of collecting a degree from Harvard Business School only to find, 200 miles to the southwest, that she could not crack the women-excluding Harvard Club of New York. “A group of us (including one Harvard Law …
Issue: March-April 2017
Yesterday's News
… 1928 The first reading period at Harvard College has proven … and a corresponding decrease in unsatisfactory marks as proof upperclassmen have the "capacity and interest to work independently." 1933 A significant number of Crimson articles and editorials suggest that the newly …
Issue: March-April 2003
Harvard Portrait: Ann Forsyth
… become this new, middle-aged cyclist,” says Graduate School of Design professor Ann Forsyth. Raised on a farm in Australia, she has … green space, food sources, and affordable housing. The author of Reforming Suburbia and Designing Small Parks …
Issue: January-February 2013
Campuses Under Construction
… At least for members of the Boston-area building trades, the recession and Harvard’s … photo gallery above) included the wholesale reconstruction of the Kennedy School campus, beginning with excavation of …
Issue: September-October 2015
Envisioning Science and Engineering in Allston
… Eleven months after the surprise announcement that much of the School of …
How Harvard’s Professional Schools Will Cope with the Economic Crisis
… In the wake of initial financial guidance and principles for … budgets disseminated by President Lawrence S. Bacow and the central administration on April 13, Harvard’s faculties … come to campus . These first messages, along with Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ dean Claudine Gay’s statement of …
Sackler—and Beyond
… In February 1982 , Harvard President Derek C. Bok called off a planned expansion of the Harvard Art Museums due to a lack of funds. Fogg …