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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
Unicyclists in a Good Cause
… through Montreal and neighboring districts in Quebec. Their vehicle of choice? The unicycle. The trip, dubbed “A Balancing Act,” … at a circus camp during middle school and received one of her own for her thirteenth birthday. Philip Wharton rode …
Issue: September-October 2009
Designating Dunster
… Harvard announced in mid July that Dunster will become the first of its 12 residential undergraduate Houses to be fully … alone is expected to cost more than $1 billion .) Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith and Harvard …
Issue: September-October 2012
A Dazzling Class of Zebras
… interim president for 140 days,” began Alan M. Garber at the baccalaureate ceremony, an occasion when the president … in this meeting, that I might be less than prepared to offer parting words of wisdom so late in your undergraduate journey—coming into …
“This Year Is Different…”
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay began her annual report for the 2020 academic and fiscal years, discussed today with … build and sustain a strong faculty and advance the pursuit of our teaching and research mission,” part of a continuing …
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
A Peak Experience
… he thrives as a pediatric neurosurgeon — operating on the delicate region where the spinal column attaches to the … the danger. “I wouldn’t go to a place like Everest right off the street,” he explains. “I did it safely, by … challenging regions, such as Alaska or Peru. “It was kind of a natural progression,” he says. “It would have been …
Issue: November-December 2005
Harvard Portrait: Huntington Lambert
… In the old farmhouse in Dover, Massachusetts, where “Hunt” … but multinational corporations pay better.” As dean of continuing education and University extension since 2013, … a public online university in 11 months. Now, Harvard is offering HarvardX MOOCs that award certificates of …
Issue: March-April 2014
Theater As If It Matters
… York City and enrolled in a two-year training program at The New Actors Workshop. It’s a prestigious program: … later, she realized her dream, becoming artistic director of the repertory company that Brustein, professor of English emeritus, founded at Yale and brought to …
Issue: November-December 2009
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
Yesterday's News
… 1924 The Bulletin's editors report themselves glad "to record … his statue from the Delta next to Memorial Hall (a post "of doubtful prominence"), to the west side of University Hall. 1929 The Faculty of Arts and Sciences …
Issue: May-June 2004
Bearing Witness
… For the May-June 2019 issue, Harvard Magazine associate editor Lydialyle Gibson profiled Rafael Campo, M.D. ’92 , a poet and physician whose … We held his hand as he slept and listened to his breath rise and fall. Outside the room, other loved ones began …
Yesterday’s News
… 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
RSS Creator Aaron Swartz Dead at 26
… Aaron Swartz , the 26-year-old computer genius, activist, and technology innovator known as a hero of the open-access movement—which promotes use of the Internet to provide free and easy access to the …
Documentary Styles
… eye for shifts in mood and a proclivity for name-dropping the film theorist Walter Benjamin. We bandied words like … “juxtaposition” and “interiority,” belabored skepticism of documentary’s “objectivity,” and referred to every … own footage was shaky, our two-minute sound excerpts full of microphone noises and rustling. Each week we’d watch …
Issue: July-August 2019