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… 1924 In a Crimson poll on Prohibition, the Harvard community votes nearly two to one to keep the Volstead Act in force, and 1488 to 940 in favor of more rigorous enforcement. Illustration by Mark Steele 1949 Statistics compiled by the Alumni Records Office indicate that "John Harvard," for the first time in …
Issue: January-February 2004
Wintergreen for President
… Images courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection When the Harvard Band trots … "Wintergreen for President." That's John P. Wintergreen, of course, the candidate of love, the greatest lover in a …
Issue: September-October 2004
Taking Teaching Seriously
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has begun a effort to encourage innovative, effective teaching. A committee of nine senior professors, named on September 4, aims to bring preliminary recommendations to the full faculty for discussion by February 1. That fast …
Issue: November-December 2006
Paradigm Shifter
… from law school, Michael Adams ’83 began a decade of litigating LGBT rights cases, first at the American Civil Liberties Union and then at Lambda Legal … he shifted away from litigation to become its director of education and public affairs. He is now CEO of SAGE—the …
Issue: May-June 2018
Arts and Sciences’ Post-Pandemic Prowess
… A t the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on November 1, Dean Claudine Gay presented a new look on the 2021-2022 academic and financial year: an annual report … edited her own presence to an absolute minimum. In place of the traditional published letter from the dean, followed …
Roche to Be Tenant in Allston
… Roche, the fifth-largest pharmaceutical company in the world, … it would create an innovation center at Harvard’s enterprise research campus (ERC) in Allston. The firm, which … 25,000 people in the United States and claims the title of “world’s largest biotechnology company,” will team with …
Yesterday’s News
… 1920 The French government presents Harvard with a collection of artifacts from the recent war—guns, bayonets, gas masks, … room.” 1950 Harvard hosts the first International Congress of Mathematicians since 1936. There are 10 social events, …
Issue: July-August 2025
Graduate School Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2011
In Search of the Social Microbiome
… The microbial flora that inhabits the gut, skin, lung, and oral cavity of humans and other animals is thought to play a critical … Any disruption or imbalance in that mix, a growing body of literature suggests, may trigger inflammation that …
Issue: September-October 2024
Corita Kent
… went straight from high school into a convent in 1936, and then, improbably, became a Pop artist in the 1960s. She … College, which was run by her order, the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles, often taking her students to local galleries and museums. …
Issue: September-October 2015
Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block: When Did Labor Law Stop Working?
… to earn what its CEO, Jeff Bezos now possesses? Why do the richest 400 Americans own more wealth than all … households combined? And how are these examples of extreme income inequality linked to the political … I think it's fair to say that the country's facing dual crises of political and economic inequality. So it's a cycle …
Letters Between Friends
… In 2004 , the Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum in New Bedford purchased a collection of documents that included the William Rotch (1844–1925) … between 1858 and 1861. Willie was the great-grandson of William Rotch Jr. (1759–1850), who built the house that …
In Bronze for Posterity
… A bust of Werner Jaeger (1888-1961) presides over the common room of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. …
Issue: November-December 2005
Brevia
… Global Perspective At a time of war, shifting international alliances, and reassessment of the gains from "globalization" of the world economy, the … common to wage- and benefits-dominated service enterprises like educational institutions. Public colleges and …
Issue: May-June 2003
Prepare for AI Hackers
… In 2016, tens of thousands of computer-security researchers gathered at the Bally’s Las Vegas for DEF CON, the world’s …
Issue: March-April 2023