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Animals Speak Color
… To delight and instruct, The Language of Color at the Harvard Museum of Natural … mouse of central Florida, Peromyscus polionotus subgriseus , left, lives in the dark soil and dense vegetation …
Issue: November-December 2008
Yesterday's News
… 1912 The Associated Harvard Clubs have established scholarships … causes a sensation by “performing the most amazing sort of evolutions on the field”—a perfect wedge, a single file … hygiene department reminds undergraduates that “heretofore a certificate based on physical disability was the …
Issue: November-December 2007
Hushed Voices
… Sacred and secular, the University's observance of September 11 proved both a … lost their lives to terrorists, and a reassuring reminder of the ordinary routines and responsibilities of daily life. …
Issue: November-December 2002
A New Contract for HUCTW
… Last Friday , the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers … four raises, which, for a worker earning the median salary of $64,000, will mean a 19 percent increase in base …
African and African-American Studies Celebrates 50 Years
… Last Saturday evening , toward the end of a two-day symposium commemorating the fiftieth … keynote address articulating a similar contradiction. “The rise of right-wing populist nationalism, naked white …
Yesterday's News
… 1916 Harvard’s baseball team defeats the Boston Red Sox in an exhibition game, 1-0. “The professionals,” the Bulletin’s editors note, “did not … administration (Warren G. Harding’s) contains no alumni of Harvard, Princeton, or Yale. 1936 The Harvard Journal of …
Family Moviemakers
… Every day in Dallas, people gather in Dealey Plaza to look up at the sixth floor of what once was the Texas School Book Depository. Some lay … For Michael H. Collins '71, J.D. '77, general counsel of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, these …
Issue: November-December 2003
Preservationist
… Every day in Dallas, people gather in Dealey Plaza to look up at the sixth floor of what once was the Texas School Book Depository. Some lay … For Michael H. Collins '71, J.D. '77, general counsel of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, these …
Issue: November-December 2003
Edgar James Banks
… Wearing Arab robes, grasping a rifle, the archaeologist glares out from the printed page. It might … entrepreneur: Edgar J. Banks, A.B. 1893, A.M. ’94. Views of him differ. While one scholar finds that Banks’s work “holds an important place in the history of Near Eastern field archaeology,” another labels him …
Issue: November-December 2021
Fictions about the Forces Driving Migration
… Think of— to use a purposefully loaded term—an “immigrant novel.” Central to the narrative is a certain kind of character: a recent … connection to their origins. Challenges ensue; questions arise. What do they owe the people they’ve left behind? What …
Issue: March-April 2024
Earl Derr Biggers
… I am quite sure that I never intended to travel the road of the mystery writer," wrote Earl Derr Biggers '07 … For I know now that he and I must travel the rest of the journey together." Biggers, whose Asian detective …
Sophomore Class Acquires Its Color
… The class of 2015 was the center of attention yesterday, hosted in Memorial Church …
Soda and Violence
… Already implicated in the obesity and diabetes epidemics, soda may be linked to … violence in young people, new research suggests. In a study of 1,878 students at Boston public high schools, heavy soda … about by accident. While seeking to document the incidence of violent behavior among the high-school …
Issue: November-December 2012
Harvard Portrait: Naomi Oreskes
… When Naomi Oreskes wrote an article in 2004 summarizing the scientific consensus on climate change, she recalls, “I was treated as if I had thrown some kind of grenade.” Public discourse at the time treated global … warming as an active scientific debate, but the history of science professor, who arrived from the University of …
Issue: July-August 2014
Where Next for Healthcare
… '44, M.D. '47, went to medical school partly because his father and grandfather told him to. "And in the 1940s," he … then, making career choices for many young people more of a quest for personal fulfillment, which has, perhaps, … The Yale Guide to Careers in Medicine and the Health Professions: Pathways to Medicine in the 21st Century, …
Issue: September-October 2003