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… Soldiers Field to house 20 enlisted men and 85 horses for the department of military science. 1946 As of October 1, a total of 12,183 students have registered for …
Issue: September-October 2021
Yesterday’s News
… around classrooms where one does not belong,” has entered the undergraduate vernacular. The Bulletin reports a … fall, as Crimson editors have begun printing daily lists of lectures deemed to be of general interest. 1932 Memorial Church, built in honor of …
Issue: November-December 2022
Unionizing Harvard Academic Workers
… After a yearlong public campaign —and the three years of quiet organizing that preceded … and adjunct faculty members. The second bargaining unit comprises about 110 staff members in Harvard Law School (HLS) …
Millicent Todd Bingham
… The 1959 Radcliffe Quarterly article begins oddly: it was written, explains its author, “by way of expiation for not having fulfilled expectations in the … Ph.D. 1923, felt the need to justify her dramatic professional pivot. Her public rationalization belied private …
Issue: November-December 2018
Funkin’ It Up
… The Grammy Award-winning , New Orleans-based Rebirth Brass Band brings its unique blend of heavy funk with a hip-hop edge and horn-blasting street jazz to Cambridge this summer. The two shows offer Northeasterners the rare chance to really let go—sing, …
Issue: July-August 2014
Self-Fashioning in Society and Solitude
… Editor’s note: Each spring term since 2008, Hobbs professor of cognition and education Howard E. Gardner and … teaching and learning Richard J. Light —in cooperation with the Freshman Dean’s Office and a group of facilitators—have … shows no curiosity when he does. He needs no instruments or machines; his own strength is fully sufficient for his …
Issue: September-October 2013
A Divinity Activist
… Father J. Bryan Hehir from the start was on loan to Harvard. … When he came to teach at the Divinity School and be part of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in 1992, he also had an ecclesiastical assignment as pastor of St. Paul's Church in Cambridge. When President Neil L. …
Issue: November-December 2001
Educational Improv
… lunch last fall, faculty members from Suffolk University gathered to watch a history class fall apart. As a befuddled professor strained to steer the conversation to the week’s … and accessibility, in whatever order—is the heartbeat of the work that we do,” explains artistic director Mara …
Issue: May-June 2018
Aisha Price: Women’s Water Polo
… Aisha Price ’13, women’s water polo co-captain, is one of Harvard’s leading scorers: she finished last year with 65 goals and 24 assists. An alumna of the Punahou School in Honolulu, the versatile Price also …
Issue: May-June 2013
Harvard Sculptor Justin Peyser
… Near the woods behind Justin Peyser’s Long Island home sits a … work is massive, almost like an open-air room, or a stand of trees. It invites visitors to step inside, but once they … want to hit your body on those things,” Peyser says. Some of them resemble shackles; others are actually hooks. When …
Issue: March-April 2025
Cambridge 02138
… 2011, page 36) lived up to its title until the peroration, when the authors bizarrely observed, “Yet more often than not, the bees actually build the hive: the … faculty ebbs; the number of preprofessional programs rises...schools burnish brands—all without presidential …
Issue: January-February 2012
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 …
Spring Sports, Spider Man
… Spring , and young men’s thoughts turn to…exercise. The New Yorker ’s ever-young Roger Angell ’42, acclaimed for … Old Man (2015): I don’t mind passing along the golf shot of my life. This came while I was still at Harvard, and was playing with another hacker pal of mine one weekend at a suburban course in Wayland, Mass. …
Issue: May-June 2017
“Listen and Learn in Order to Lead”: The ROTC Commissioning Ceremony
… President Drew Faust and a large, enthusiastic crowd of family members, friends, fellow students, alumni veterans, and other well-wishers gathered in front of Memorial Church late on the morning of May 26 for the …
Barer-Bones Budget
… Greater cost-consciousness will become a part of Harvard's culture in much leaner University budgets for … beginning on July 1. Interviewed in her Massachusetts Hall office on the September day when the Boston Globe reported "MIT to cut …
Issue: November-December 2003