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SFFA Asks Supreme Court to Review Harvard Admissions Lawsuit
… has pursued litigation against Harvard’s longstanding use of race as a factor in its holistic review of undergraduate applicants for admission to the College, today asked the Supreme Court to review its …
Who Gets to Keep the Ring?
… Are you breaking up with me? Eric: Are you giving me back the ring? Donna: Yes. — That '70s Show , "The Promise Ring" What happens if “I do” ends…otherwise? Stanton professor of the first amendment Rebecca Tushnet is an expert in the …
What You Can Say, Singing
… Here is everything that happened before the audience at the Bavarian State Opera heard soprano Liv Redpath ’14 sing the final note of Der Rosenkavalier on opening night in May 2022. After she … to the ideas they expressed: “Why does one word sound soft or gentle, while another word is punctuating?” After …
Issue: November-December 2024
Sophomores, Sex, Soap
… Lisa Nestles into the folds of Adam’s grey fleece jacket, her hand entwined in … his peer advising fellow, an upperclass student chosen to offer academic and social guidance to freshmen. By the rules …
Issue: January-February 2008
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
Fakery and Shakespeare
… In some circles , the debate still rages about who Shakespeare really was: A … typically listed among the contenders but, with The Tragedy of Arthur (Random House), he has briefly thrown his hat into … Phillips himself. Phillips presented the play to a handful of scholars and theater companies before letting them in on …
Issue: July-August 2011
Brevia
… The University Brevia PH.D. MAGIC: Illustration by Rick Stromoski Each Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Bulletin features "BackTalk," a chance … years. Although central administration positions have risen to staff the University Campaign and the ADAPT …
Making Mingling Manageable
… Midway through my senior year of high school, my father and I attended a welcoming event for already-admitted members of Harvard’s class of 2010. We walked in, were given …
Issue: January-February 2009
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
Practicing Public Thoughts
… I still remember the internet-fear-mongering library visits of sixth, … seventh, and eighth grade. On a fall day near the start of the year, our English or history or math teacher would …
George Bancroft
… In mid-nineteenth-century America, George Bancroft’s was a household name in polite, middle-class society. Generations of families purchased his multivolume History of the United States to understand the origins and trajectory …
Issue: May-June 2008
“Presenting Jane” at Harvard
… During the summer of 1952, poets John Ashbery ’49, Litt.D. ’01, … O’Hara ’50, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch ’48, among other friends, all convened at a house in the Hamptons to … by critics and historians as the New York School—a sort of loose association of writers and artists all working and …
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
Crimson Campaigners
… On the evening of November 5, as Harvard students gather to watch election results, some undergraduates will be … internships were successful. This summer and fall, dozens of Harvard students campaigned for local, state, and …
Issue: September-October 2024
Bake at 375
… Joanne Chang ’91, owner of the three Flour Bakery + Café venues in Boston, will create … for Harvard's 375th birthday party on October 14. Chang, profiled in Harvard Magazine' s Montage section in 2008, …