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… 1922 Heywood Broun ’10, in a column reprinted in the Bulletin , rues the fact that Harvard is no longer the … literary center it once was. “When a Princeton man speaks of Scott Fitzgerald,” Broun writes, “his Harvard companions … must remain silent or adopt the somewhat irrelevant remedy of saying, ‘Well, who won the last freshman eight-oared …
Issue: March-April 2007
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 …
Tuning In to Urban Noise
… Church. A car honks. Pigeons coo. During a walk through the soundscape of Harvard Square, noise researcher and activist Erica … responses such as “fight or flight.” Walker was surprised by the intensity, and often frustration, expressed in …
Issue: March-April 2018
What Causes Cancer
… microbiologist. His sports aspirations have been thwarted of late (he is a San Francisco Giants loyalist), but not so … Harold E. Varmus, A.M. '62, S.D. '96, were awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for … unifying explanation for how most or all cancers might arise. The track is paved with cells." The excerpts that …
Issue: March-April 2003
Crimson's "Most Interesting Seniors" List Includes Some Familiar Names
… The Harvard Crimson 's list of the "15 Most Interesting" members of the class of 2010 had significant overlap with Harvard …
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 …
Investigating Academic Misconduct
… that it was investigating allegations that “nearly half the students” in a spring 2012 course “may have … the final exam….” Given the potentially serious violation of academic norms on an unprecedented scale, the statement … of discussion emerged. Some students said they were not surprised by the allegations, and rumors circulated that the …
Issue: November-December 2012
Admissions Evolving
… The College announced March 28 that 1,937 of 54,008 applicants (3.6 percent) were admitted to the class of 2028. The comparable figures a year earlier were 1,942 …
Issue: May-June 2024
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
University Arts Initiative Launched
… President Drew Faust made the inaugural performance at the New College Theatre, on November 1, the setting for her announcement of a University-wide arts initiative. A faculty task force … artistic creation within the educational and teaching enterprise, inside the classroom and beyond (as compared to a …
Spaces for Art, People, and Light
… This winter, the entire Gund Hall lobby of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) was given over to various depictions, …
Issue: May-June 2012
New Recommendations for Ending Gender Discrimination in Harvard College
… report recommending expansion and consistent application of a policy that, starting with the freshman class entering in the fall of 2017, would bar new members of male and female final …
Words to Live By
… a typical year, College seniors would have walked back to their Houses to receive their diplomas following Thursday … degree-holders would have returned to the graduate and professional school campuses to receive theirs. But this … The culture and tenure of people in those buildings surprised me. The way they talked about Sam Walton surprised me. …
Marcyliena Morgan: How Has Harvard Cultivated Hiphop?
… graffiti—have to do with Harvard? In this episode, Monrad professor of social sciences Marcyliena Morgan explains that hiphop began with the children of people who marched in the civil-rights … on Apple M usic or any other service, and I was really surprised because it was popular at the time that I was a …
Campuses’ Cultures
… American colleges and universities are often seen as islands of political correctness, wallowing in self-indulgent identity politics. They are riven by racial and ethnic tension, and seemingly … few informants had any idea of what the liberal arts comprise—nor any sense that they are engaged in liberal-arts …
Issue: May-June 2019