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University People
… Jacqueline A. O'Neill Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Madam Marshal President Lawrence H. Summers has appointed Jacqueline A. O'Neill the University Marshal, effective February 1, filling a post … August 2002, when Richard M. Hunt retired after two decades of service. O'Neill, who was staff director for President …
Issue: March-April 2004
Harvard Takes Health On-line
… takes Harvard's educational mission to a general audience, the University has made available the expertise of faculty members from Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) through two websites devoted to …
A Family Affair
… two here each year for four decades, I have always thought of it as home, if home is the one place that will be in your bones forever. So writes … in his evocative book, The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home. For five generations, his …
Issue: March-April 2007
Academia’s Absence from Homelessness
… Initiative on Health and Homelessness (IHH) is a rarity in the academic world—the first of its kind based at a school of public health, and one of only a handful of similar …
Sky High
… James E. Smolen ’71, Ph.D. ’76, has a distinctive way of escaping conventional life. Flying, he says, “is one of those hobbies that guarantees that your worldly worries remain on the ground.” Smolen has been air-bound since age three, …
Issue: November-December 2005
Yesterday’s News
… 1918 The Harvard Club of North China contacts President Lowell, offering a prize of $100 to the student “who writes the best …
Issue: May-June 2023
Harvard Square, Then and Now
… section explores how Harvard Square has changed over the last quarter century—the focus of this video. Watch and listen to the owner of Cardullo's (a gourmet food shop), the Hong Kong (a …
Issue: September-October 2011
Superbug: An Epidemic Begins
… Less than a century ago, the age-old evolutionary relationship between humans and … by an idea. The antibiotic revolution inaugurated the era of modern medicine, trivializing once-deadly infections and … antibiotics are no exception: antibiotic resistance —the rise of bacteria impervious to the new “cure”—has followed …
Issue: May-June 2014
Edward Gorey
… ’50 has just brought out a new book. Amphigorey Again , the fourth anthology of Gorey’s weird and wondrous tales, presents works … illustrated oddments. Given his vivid artwork, it may surprise fans to know that Gorey considered himself a writer …
Issue: March-April 2007
Authorial Synapses
… William Faulkner didn't so much write The Sound and the Fury as erupt with it, pouring out the masterpiece in a matter of weeks, his words and ideas as unstoppable as a flood. … that eager and joyous faith and anticipation of surprise." Like Faulkner, many writers have periods of frenzied …
Issue: January-February 2004
Yesterday's News
… 1931 The Harvard Placement Service appeals for help as it tries … that the University make the city a tercentenary gift of $300,000—“on the grounds that ‘Harvard receives many … the city and gives little in return.’ ” 1946 The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted to establish two new …
Issue: March-April 2006
Laughing at Slavery
… In his 1997 book Rock This! the black comedian Chris Rock sends up the “Uncle Tom” stereotype of a subservient African American who kowtows to the … Tom. I know that if I was in a fight, Aunt Tom would take off his pumps and whip some ass.” This example appears in …
Issue: March-April 2009
2014 Settles In
… The advance guard — FAP pers, FIP pers, FOP pers, and FUP … skies, downpours, and temperatures in the low 60s. The rest of the first years arrived on August 26 to find sunny summer … days in the 90s and sticky nights in the 70s. But the class of 2014—numbering 1,671 women and men from 79 countries, …
Women at Work
… On First-Year Family Weekend the fall of my sophomore year, a lone father wandered down the steep concrete stairs of Canaday Hall and through the basement doors into the …
Issue: March-April 2020
Why Can’t We Move?
… The nomination of Boston as the U.S. host city for the 2024 summer Olympics preceded much public discussion of the potential benefits and costs. Andrew Zimbalist, Ph.D. … and who continued as an advocate during several crises when it was near termination. Strong, committed …
Issue: July-August 2015