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… around classrooms where one does not belong,” has entered the undergraduate vernacular. The Bulletin reports a … because Crimson editors have begun printing daily lists of lectures deemed to be of general interest. 1942 … and helping to organize student-conducted business enterprises. 1962 A bequest from bacteriologist and immunologist …
Issue: November-December 2017
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
What Drives Successful Crowdsourcing?
… says his work poses a provocative question: can a crowd of random people outsmart Harvard experts? Lakhani, professor of business administration, seeks the answer in his role at Harvard’s Institute for …
Issue: January-February 2017
The Essential Educator for His Time
… What does it take to become a great higher education leader? The role is demanding: leading universities or similar … multiple constituencies, innumerable tasks, complex and often conflicting goals. Today, with higher education under … what we can from exemplars. In this context, an account of the life of the late William (Bill) Bowen, LL.D. ’73, …
Issue: March-April 2024
Yesterday's News
… 1915 Professor Theodore Richards becomes the first American to receive a Nobel Prize in chemistry. … x-rayed by clinicians from the Dental School in the wake of a general survey that indicated many students were in …
Issue: November-December 2005
Harvard’s Standoff: The History
… There has been nothing in Harvard’s history like the current … Trump administration. But Harvard students and faculty have often come into conflict with the federal government over … a sampling: Click here to read comprehensive coverage of Harvard in the Crosshairs Timeline: Harvard and the …
Issue: July-August 2025
First Black Alumnus’s Papers Found
… In an astonishing find, Rufus McDonald, a member of a clean-out crew preparing a house outside Chicago for demolition in 2009, discovered a steamer trunk of papers and documents collected by Richard Greener, A.B. 1870, the first black student to graduate from Harvard College. …
Cambridge 02138
… Antibiotic Resistance Thanks for the fine article on antibiotic-resistant bacteria by … turned antibiotics into monster-makers. A favorite teacher of medical microbiology at the University of California, San … to indiscriminate timbering. I was dismayed, but not surprised, at drug companies’ current lack of interest in …
Issue: July-August 2014
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
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
Good Work
… become good workers? And, equally important, what are the early experiences and habits of mind that have led some idealistic young workers to … training that equips them to handle ethical issues that arise in their work. Indeed, the clientist relationships that …
Issue: May-June 2004
Empty Nets
… On some golden days, you can forget the laptop and take a snorkel to work. For a month of those days, last summer on Bali, I pursued alternative … the ocean currents for three to four weeks. Much to our surprise, the Celebes Sea and Java populations showed a genetic …
Talking About Teaching
… Ever since the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) was … educational technology, and assessment through a series of innovation grants to faculty members and an annual … on May 8—attended by several deans among the audience of hundreds—suggested the variety and reach of educational …
Issue: July-August 2013
National Concerns about Policing Reverberate at Harvard
… On Monday, June 8, against the backdrop of national protests against police forces and … professionals as first responders to mental-health crises on campus; for Harvard schools to review protocols …
Occupy Harvard Teach-In Sparks Dialogue
… The Science Center’s Lecture Hall D was filled almost to … hosted its first teach-in, aimed at raising awareness of and creating dialogue to support the Occupy Wall Street movement. Nine professors spoke during the four-and-a-half-hour public …