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Stage One
… Two years ago, Emily Knapp '03 was slated to be the assistant director for a production of Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown, which the … lecturer on dramatic arts Marcus Stern, associate director of the Loeb-based American Repertory Theatre. "She did such …
Issue: May-June 2003
Commencement Confetti
… ’em Young Photograph by Jim Harrison Many Graduate School of Arts and Sciences students have worked for years to earn their advanced degrees—and have married and started families … may be assured a head start toward earlier completion of their theses. From Puritan to Polyglot Phi Beta Kappa …
Issue: July-August 2011
Final-Club Fissures
… and College dean Rakesh Khurana announced last May that the College would sanction future undergraduates who are members of unrecognized single-gender social organizations (final … or that it is badly worded. The only lack of clarity arises from the president’s refusal to give a straightforward …
Fernando Zóbel-Montojo
… From the cliffs over the Jucar River, in the midst of an old … The museum is only the best known of several cultural enterprises that Fernando Zóbel ’49 created during an intense life …
Issue: January-February 2023
Climate Change
… Universities are among the most creative and powerful forces for shaping the … our genuine concern, we must face up to the stark reality of climate change. The scientific consensus is by now clear: … is now. Climate change poses an immediate and concrete test of whether we, as members of a university and responsible …
Issue: September-October 2019
Dramatis Personae
… he was senior vice president, and five years as president of Data Race William Bossert ’59, Ph.D. ’63, JF ’66…Arnold professor of science emeritus, creator of the General Education course Nat Sci 110, “Automatic … and entrepreneurship and Murchison Fellow of free enterprise, Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at …
Issue: September-October 2020
Yesterday's News
… 1928 Following Harvard’s first spring reading period, the College Library reports about 650 more visitors than in … New Yorker article which “describes the lamentable decrease of hurdy-gurdies licensed by the city of New York,” the Bulletin’ s editors cite the welcome …
Issue: May-June 2008
Iambic Imbroglio
… In 19 B.C., the Roman noblemen Varius and Tucca were given an … to burn the manuscript that he had spent the last 10 years of his life working on and that, to his mind, remained … the glory it would bring his reign, demanded publication of the manuscript. Within a few days, dozens of scribes were …
Issue: January-February 2007
Advising Adventures
… In the course of overhauling the College curriculum, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) deferred undergraduates’ …
Issue: July-August 2007
Making a Bee Line
… Seeley , Ph.D. ’78, studies swarm intelligence, notably in the complex lives of honeybees. Apis mellifera arrived on this continent with European settlers, perhaps in the 1620s. A long line of scientists has engaged with the species, including …
Issue: September-October 2016
Runways in Pixels
… mania to renting a $10,000 Vera Wang gown, below is a list of Harvard alumni taking the world of online fashion by storm: The Gilt Groupe offers deeply …
Harvard and Largest Union Reach Tentative Agreement
… After a long negotiation , Harvard and its largest union, the 4,600-member Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), have reached … contract; they had operated without one since the end of June 2012. The new contract provides the typical union …
Build It and They Will Hatch
… Few of us could build a full-size house without a blueprint, yet … ( Calypte anna and C. costae ) nests collected in the late nineteenth century from California. Below: an … add to their existing nest until in time it rises from the marshland's cattails like a brittle, gray …
Issue: January-February 2004
Harvard Sexual Assault Report Calls for Training, Culture Change
… task force charged with making recommendations for the prevention of sexual assault at Harvard issued its final report today. … that: The University develop a plan before the beginning of the fall semester (emphasis added) to implement …
Men's Basketball Exonerated
… An inquiry by the Ivy League into allegations of improper recruiting by … answer was no in each case,” Orleans noted. Such issues arise and are investigated routinely in Division One athletic …
Issue: November-December 2008