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Harvard Library’s First Director
… Helen Shenton , an experienced innovator from the British Library who was deputy director of the Harvard University Library this past year, became executive director of the new, consolidated Harvard Library in mid January. …
Issue: March-April 2011
“If We Cannot Break Through, We Just Find a Way Around”
… “It is time we connected the dots” among labor unions, work, and peace, 2011 … Day on May 27. “Political freedom is only a shadow of economic freedom,” said Bhatt, a past member of India's parliament and the founder of the Self Employed …
Living Collections
… I am more of a runner than a rambler— measuring my time outdoors in miles rather than moments—but life in pandemic mode has forced me to … individual woody plants, including celebrated holdings of beech, forsythia, ginkgo, hemlock, hickory, maple, and …
Issue: March-April 2022
Saber-Fighting Warrior
… "There is something so visceral about facing off against … Then the fencers salute their opponents, the fencing officials (called "directors"), and, in national …
Issue: January-February 2004
Overseer and HAA Elected Director Slates
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee … has announced the 2025 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards; five to be …
Issue: March-April 2025
Tobacco Smoke and Tuberculosis
… Smoking is one of the largest risk factors for contracting or dying from … may finally explain why. They also identified two types of existing drugs that may help reverse the effect. Tobacco …
Evelyn Baring, Lord Cromer
… Thinking himself near death in 1905, Evelyn Baring, the first Lord Cromer, began a series of "Biographical Notes," written partly that his three sons "should know something of their father's career," partly that they might be of use …
Issue: May-June 2004
An Unexpected Farmer
… guides fostered a desire to see and experience new ways of living. A decade later, when she was freelancing as a writer in Manhattan, her passion for pursuing “the next novel thing” took her in a truly unexpected … she met her future husband, Mark, in his rundown farm office-cum-home trailer. He asked her to help hoe the …
Issue: September-October 2010
Harvard Graduates Leave No One Behind
… HIS TWO DEPLOYMENTS TO AFGHANISTAN as an Air Force officer, Phil Caruso, J.D.-M.B.A. ’19, worked closely with … an Afghan informant who collected information on behalf of the United States, risking his life in the process. “He …
Issue: May-June 2022
Loker Lunch
… Harvard's new student-center-cum-food-court, spreads out in the reclaimed basement of Memorial Hall. Descend through the new brick and granite … and, for color, electronic signboards running the length of the commons and at the end of the hall. It's what the …
News Briefs
… Final Steps on Final Clubs? At the November 7 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting, … credit would not count toward the new limit. This issue has risen in importance as barriers to cross-registration have …
Issue: January-February 2018
A Treasure Way Up High
… The ceiling of Sanders Theatre soars so high, it makes you look up, says Raymond Traietti, assistant director of Memorial Hall. That’s when the grandest antique …
Issue: January-February 2016
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected …
Issue: July-August 2018
Sidney Verba, and a Classy Class Reporter
… A Mensch. In the Memorial Minute on the life of the late Sidney Verba, a prominent government scholar, presented to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in March, it was observed that as a …
Issue: July-August 2021
Edwin Binney, 3rd
… Few realize that the sale of Binney & Smith Crayola crayons, those staples of so many childhoods, helped fund one of the largest …
Issue: January-February 2021