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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
Sidney Verba, and a Classy Class Reporter
… A Mensch. In the Memorial Minute on the life of the late Sidney Verba, a prominent government scholar, presented to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in March, it was observed that as a …
Issue: July-August 2021
2014 Settles In
… The advance guard — FAP pers, FIP pers, FOP pers, and FUP … skies, downpours, and temperatures in the low 60s. The rest of the first years arrived on August 26 to find sunny summer … days in the 90s and sticky nights in the 70s. But the class of 2014—numbering 1,671 women and men from 79 countries, …
Business School Dean Jay O. Light to Step Down
… announced today that he would relinquish his position at the end of the academic year . He will also retire from the faculty … and individually, during the financial and budget crises of the past 18 months. Light cited that period as the …
Cambridge 02138
… PYRAMID BUILDERS I read withgreat interest " Who Built thePyramids? " by Jonathan Shaw (July-August, page 42), describingMark Lehner's magnificent discovery of the lost city of the pyramidbuilders. The article leaves … builders poured the material of these stones, which comprise part ofthe core of the pyramid, they would have to have …
Issue: September-October 2003
Harvard College Dean Evelynn Hammonds Steps Down
… College dean Evelynn M. Hammonds is stepping down at the end of the academic year. According to the news release, posted … became College dean on June 1, 2008—something of a surprise appointment, given her prior service principally in …
Yesterday's News
… 1931 The Harvard Placement Service appeals for help as it tries … that the University make the city a tercentenary gift of $300,000—“on the grounds that ‘Harvard receives many … the city and gives little in return.’ ” 1946 The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted to establish two new …
Issue: March-April 2006
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
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
Harvard Art Museums To Require Vaccination or Negative COVID Test
… Today the Harvard Art Museums announced a new public-safety … effect September 28, which will require visitors to show proof of vaccination or documentation of a negative COVID-19 test …
Harvard Library’s First Director
… Helen Shenton , an experienced innovator from the British Library who was deputy director of the Harvard University Library this past year, became executive director of the new, consolidated Harvard Library in mid January. …
Issue: March-April 2011
When Water Is Safer Than Land
… “.… you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the … “Home” The jubilation that accompanied the brief flowering of the Arab Spring is long gone as its deadly aftermath—in … should we think about the recurring migration and refugee “crises” that present themselves with almost predictable …
Issue: January-February 2016
An Unexpected Farmer
… guides fostered a desire to see and experience new ways of living. A decade later, when she was freelancing as a writer in Manhattan, her passion for pursuing “the next novel thing” took her in a truly unexpected … she met her future husband, Mark, in his rundown farm office-cum-home trailer. He asked her to help hoe the …
Issue: September-October 2010
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
Cambridge Smorgasbord
… for Commencement week and alumni events, here’s a selection of restaurants, spanning many cuisines, that are suitable for gatherings of all kinds—from casual to fancy, and spirited to cozy. At …
Issue: May-June 2025