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Winter Retreat
… I n 1962, a group of hard-working, eager Harvard Mountaineering Club members … skills and tools managed to erect a log cabin on the eastern slope of Mount Washington. It’s still there—and anyone who wants …
Issue: January-February 2020
President Faust Named 2011 Jefferson Lecturer
… The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced … Arts. Her lecture, titled "Telling War Stories: Reflections of a Civil War Historian," is to address representations of war throughout history. Faust's most recent book, This …
Yesterday's News
… a new parietal rule, stating that "Students living in the Houses will be given permission to entertain ladies in … are two or more ladies present." The rule provokes a slew of petitions for "one sole woman" and the Bulletin 's … is removed, there'll be breaking and entering on the part of single, defiant misses, till the students scream for …
Issue: September-October 2001
Russia’s “Loose Nukes”
… For all the renewed debate about national missile defense--the "Star Wars" program, and the threat of attack by rogue nuclear states like North Korea--there is … Material. Fortunately, today we do not have Cuban missile crises that force citizens to experience existentially the …
Brevia
… Gender Milestone For the first time, slightly more women than men will enroll in the cohort of students entering Harvard College, making the class of 2008 an historic group even before they begin their …
Issue: September-October 2004
“Shotgun” Diagnosis
… We like to think of modern medicine and doctoring as scientific. And so they are, but health outcomes remain subject to chance like every other aspect of life: the heart attack patient who dies despite expert …
Issue: September-October 2023
Business School Dean Jay O. Light to Step Down
… announced today that he would relinquish his position at the end of the academic year . He will also retire from the faculty … and individually, during the financial and budget crises of the past 18 months. Light cited that period as the …
Brevia
… Upsizing Samuels & Associates, the Harvard-designated developer for Barry’s Corner (at the intersection of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue) in Allston, in … feet of new public open space. The tallest building would rise seven to nine stories, down from an original 11-story …
Issue: March-April 2013
Diaghilev and His Geniuses
… The culturati of Europe in the early twentieth century had a phrase for “cutting edge” … impresario Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929), were a fountain of energy that launched many of the century’s creative …
Issue: May-June 2009
William Monroe Trotter
… 28, 1919, William Monroe Trotter, A.B. 1895, sat before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to urge inclusion of the “rights of colored people” in the U.S. peace treaty with Germany. He …
Issue: November-December 2019
A Living Treasure in Boston
… With 281 acres of thriving trees, flowers, and bushes from around the globe, Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum is so much more than a … living collection (including nursery holdings) comprises more than 17,000 individual plants, and plenty of …
Issue: July-August 2020
Bringing Honor to Harvard
… Editor’s note: In the aftermath of the adoption of a new honor code for Harvard College by the Faculty of …
Metamorphoses
… Long before it became a fraternity of the atrociously behaved and was taken out behind the barn … a thoroughly masculine sanctum. Now the place is a symphony of hot-pink, gold-striped walls with lilac swirls, of gilded …
Issue: July-August 2003
Milman Parry
… Milman Parry saw the Homeric epics through new eyes, heard them through new … ears. The Iliad and the Odyssey , he said, were the work of generations of illiterate poets who composed orally; their poetry took …
Issue: September-October 2022
Collateral Damage
… Even beyond the campuses divided by the October 7 Hamas attack and … it serves in other ways. Here are reflections on a few of the lingering costs. Diminishing academic freedom . When … defiance.” Endangering disciplines . It comes as no surprise that the discipline under assault April 17 involved …
Issue: July-August 2024