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Endowment Edges Up in a Down Year
… The University’s endowment increased by $2.0 billion, or 5.7 … Company (HMC), released in early September. The new total of $36.9 billion represents an 8.6 percent investment return … investment return for fiscal year 2008. Real assets comprise “liquid commodities” (oil and gas, agricultural goods, …
Issue: November-December 2008
Who Was John Greenleaf Whittier?
… The prominent nineteenth-century Quaker abolitionist and writer John Greenleaf Whittier was once in the backyard of his home in Amesbury, Massachusetts, when a bullet flew … surmised, that he was walking about on the other side of the fence. Instead of confronting them, however, Whittier …
Issue: May-June 2024
A Man in Motion
… Two momentous journeys began in 1831: the young Alexis de Tocqueville left Le Havre for the United … toured the Mississippi. In Tocqueville's Discovery of America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27), Bernbaum professor of literature Leo Damrosch recalls the young …
Issue: March-April 2010
What We Know About Wealth
… Americans have a distorted sense of the level of inequality in their society—but not in the direction one …
Issue: November-December 2011
Skull Session
… Daniel Lieberman's research explores the wonders of the human head: all the functions that take … January-February 2011 issue.) In this video, Lieberman, a professor of human evolutionary biology, gives readers a tour …
Issue: January-February 2011
Every Play Breaks a Record
… Watch him this fall, if you can: football players of Clifton Dawson’s caliber don’t show up very often in Harvard Stadium. The record books, in fact, have never seen his equal: Dawson … of the 2006 Canadian Football League draft; don’t be surprised if an NFL team picks him in their draft next April. …
Issue: September-October 2006
Philanthropy in a New Key
… John Sage and Christopher Dearnley weren't like most of their peers at Harvard Business School. Neither had … of the Harvard Business School's Initiative on Social Enterprise. The way Sage chose to give appealed to McLean …
Tracy Palandjian Elected to Harvard Corporation
… Tracy Pun Palandjian ’93, M.B.A. ’97, has been elected to the Harvard Corporation, the University’s 13-member … the election today, following a regularly scheduled meeting of the governing boards this past weekend. She succeeds … Real Estate Corporation , the development enterprise founded by his father, which has 144 properties with 31 …
FAS’s Fitter Fisc
… In an e-mail preceding yesterday's final regular Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting of the semester, and in discussion at the meeting itself, …
Joseph Aldy
… When Joseph Aldy trekked up Mount Kilimanjaro with his father in 2000, he was a long way from the farm in Kentucky … 19,341-foot peak, he got to see the last vestiges of the 11,000-year-old glaciers there—they are expected to disappear within the next decade or so. An assistant professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), he …
Issue: March-April 2012
Vita: Fanny Bullock Workman
… At a 1907 meeting of the Royal Geographical Society , in London, William Hunter Workman, M.D. 1873, spoke of his recent expedition into the Nun Kun area of the …
Issue: March-April 2012
Yesterday’s News
… 1913 The Alumni Bulletin reports the laying of the cornerstone of the Harvard Club of Boston. A spokesman says the club …
Issue: March-April 2023
Off the Shelf
… America, by David A. Sklansky, J.D. ’84 (Harvard, $35). The Morrison professor of law at Stanford, a former federal prosecutor, … the world casts off the assumptions underlying the enterprise—as it seems very much inclined to do. Class Matters, by …
Issue: March-April 2025
Harvard Square Old and New
… Is there a neighborhood more steeped in personality than … in at the Charles Hotel, steps from the Square and fresh off a remodel. Enjoy a sunset drink on the patio at Noir Bar … Square. Or check into Hotel Veritas, for a charming mix of modern and traditional. The name is Latin and the …
Issue: May-June 2020
Coronavirus Mutations Threaten to Worsen Pandemic
… Despite the race to deploy vaccines, two new variants of SARS-CoV-2 … than the prevailing strain are poised to amplify spread of the pandemic worldwide, complicating control efforts, and …