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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
Geology Intersects Biology
… Packing the Earth’s 4.6-billion-year history into a two-foot-by-three poster—roughly three-quarters of a billion years per square foot—is no easy task. Yet … up to do just that with “Earth Evolution: The Intersection of Geology and Biology”—a graphic display (opposite) of how …
Issue: September-October 2013
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
Alice Hamilton
… When Alice Hamilton arrived at Harvard in 1919, the University had never admitted a woman to the faculty. … take it personally. She saw her appointment as assistant professor in the new Department of Industrial Medicine as an opportunity to continue the …
Issue: May-June 2025
Cultural Education
… morning, Kiahana Brooks ’10 greets passersby in Lugisu, the local language: “ Mulembe .” ("Good morning.") As … Some will spend all day waiting to be seen; this is part of the experience of going to a clinic in many parts of Africa, but Beatrice …
Claudia Jones
… Next to the enormous bust of Karl Marx in London’s Highgate Cemetery lies a small stone marking the ashes of a remarkable woman: Claudia Jones. Born in Trinidad, she …
Issue: September-October 2020
Jodie Foster to Receive 2025 Radcliffe Medal
… The actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster will receive this … for Best Actress in The Accused (1989) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Foster made her directorial debut in … including Money Monster (2016) and television episodes of Orange Is the New Black and House of Cards. In addition …
Final Clubs, Continued
… The First Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting of the year, on October 3, heard a news-filled annual report …
Issue: November-December 2017
Yesterday’s News
… 1933 Harvard University Press issues phonograph records of “four widely known Harvard voices”: T.S. Eliot ’10 and professors Charles Townsend Copeland, Fred Norris Robinson, and Bliss Perry. 1943 The president of The Harvard Advocate announces that, due to …
Issue: July-August 2023
Dining by Degrees
… SUMMA Upstairs on the Square (91 Winthrop Street, 617-864-1933) is a reincarnation of Upstairs at the Pudding, and the faithful rejoice. The … unsomber in each of the two restaurants that comprise the establishment. At the Soirée Room on the top floor …
Issue: May-June 2004
Harvard Football: New Season, New Coach
… The winter , spring, and summer of our discontent having concluded, Harvard’s 2024 football season kicks off this Saturday—appropriately enough, the first day of …
An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight
… In December 2023, David Carpenter was deep in the digital stacks of the Harvard Law School Library, sifting through unofficial copies of the Magna Carta for a book project, when …
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
At Home with Harvard: Pride Month
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories the climate crisis, … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …
Yesterday's News
… 1920 Thanks to the Endowment Fund campaign, President Lowell approves a new salary scale for faculty members under which full professors will receive $6,000 to $8,000 annually (an increase … to $2,000). * * * A general examination in their field of study will henceforth be required of most seniors, to …