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HILT Grants Announced
… The Harvard Initiative on Learning and Teaching (HILT), … symposium in February, has announced the winners of a first round of HILT grants to members of the Harvard community. A …
Unwhole
… He now lives and works in New York City. Gober “is arguably the most important sculptor/artist of his generation,” declares Mary Schneider Enriquez, Houghton associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the Harvard Art Museums. …
Issue: July-August 2011
Linking Mental and Fiscal Health
… Barely making ends meet takes a mental toll whether you are a retail worker in New Jersey or a farmer in … years, though, mood disorders were seen largely as diseases of affluent nations: it was assumed that the First World … In a recent review article in Science, Pershing Square professor of global health Vikram Patel and a group of …
Issue: May-June 2021
On Firmer Footing
… The good news is that “Harvard’s finances ended the year in … during the pandemic, resulting in an operating surplus of $283 million for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021, … $410 million in the prior year. But that was a positive surprise: the contraction followed an 18 percent decline in …
Issue: January-February 2022
“Shotgun” Diagnosis
… We like to think of modern medicine and doctoring as scientific. And so they are, but health outcomes remain subject to chance like every other aspect of life: the heart attack patient who dies despite expert …
Issue: September-October 2023
Yesterday's News
… from Harvard, Princeton and Yale" indicates that the Volstead Act seems to have driven many students from the "comparative moderation of the last decade," the Bulletin' s editors report that "the testimony of the College officers and of the police and our own …
Issue: November-December 2003
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
President Faust Schedules University Address on September 24
… In an e-mail message to the Harvard community this afternoon, President Drew Faust issued an invitation to a sort of state-of-the-University address to be held September 24 at 4:00 …
Why universities endure
… universities like Harvard are paradoxes. In many respects they are archaic. What other American institutions do … in the United States, the list overlaps with the list of the oldest universities in the U.S. to a remarkable … a project I had written on international financial crises. One student, asked to summarize and react to the …
Issue: November-December 2004
A Satisfactory Split
… left in Harvard’s game at Cornell on Friday night and the Crimson trailing 71-70, freshman guard Bryce Aiken had the ball at the top of key, and the Big Red’s Jack Gordon was staring intently … line in the left corner, where he didn’t seem like much of a threat. Sure, Bassey had drained one three-pointer …
Protesters Walk Out of Harvard Commencement
… would not be allowed to graduate this spring due to their involvement in the pro-Palestine encampment, activists … organized their own graduation. During the conferral of degrees Thursday morning, hundreds of graduating students—perhaps as many as a thousand people …
Yesterday’s News
… 99 years, boasts hot-water heating and “shower baths” for the first time. 1916 More than 1,500 undergraduates and … have spent the summerin military training camps as part of anational “preparedness movement.” 1926 The Memorial Hall dining room closes because of students’ preference for “the nasty, unhygienic, and …
Issue: September-October 2006
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
Fashion Forward
… Drawings by Lewis Albert The spotlights are on and the music is pounding. I am sitting close to the edge of a stage in the darkened Bright Hockey Center, gaping as … attracted more than 100 members, including, to their surprise, quite a few men. Both explicitly preprofessional and …
Issue: March-April 2006
Finding Our Way
… Using relatively simple tools, early explorers navigated the archipelagos of the southern Pacific and many other dangerous, uncharted corners of the world. Finding Our Way: An Exploration of Human …
Issue: March-April 2015