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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, …
Radcliffe and Other “Shared Interest Groups”
… Among the University’s new Shared Interest Groups (SIGs) is the fledgling Alumnae and Friends of Radcliffe College, led by Ellen Gordon Reeves ’83, … It is open to women as well as men from any class and offers alumni “another way to connect to each other, to …
Issue: January-February 2007
Uncharted Territory
… James Quillen ’22 to get his advice about applying to the Michael C. Rockefeller Fellowship. On the weekend we … fellowship aims to develop “an individual’s understanding of himself and his world through involvement with people of … jobs does not really mean I’m straying at all. Sophia surprised herself when she decided to work as a journalist in …
Issue: July-August 2023
Conflict, Abroad and at Home
… nations , flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that …
Issue: January-February 2002
A Woman in Science
… In my first year of doctoral studies in England, a group of colleagues and I gathered at the pub after work one evening, along with some …
Issue: September-October 2006
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 …
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
Derek Bok on Technology and Teaching
… Harvard president emeritus Derek Bok, speaking at the six-hundredth anniversary of the University of St Andrews on September 14, focused … Bok noted, changes teaching. First, it makes the enterprise collaborative —with positive implications for the …
“Make Elections Boring Again”
… “Secretary Raffensperger , you’ve had an interesting couple of years.” So began a conversation at the Institute of Politics (IOP) Tuesday evening with Georgia secretary of …
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
Fourth-Century Church Tales
… Mount Athos, jutting up from the Aegean Sea in northeastern Greece, is a place of austere traditions. Twenty Greek Orthodox monasteries … in the first centuries of the Christian church. This surprise appears in a manuscript that François Bovon, now …
Football: Harvard 24, Columbia 16
… There is a 1981 adventure film called Escape from New York, … produced Escape from New York, Part Deux, in which the part of Snake was played by a young man from Sacramento, … 86-yard punt return that came on the first play of the fourth quarter. It gave Harvard a 21-point lead and …
History Minted
… The loss of the coins focused attention on their real value to Harvard. "Made of silver and bronze as well as gold, some of them rank as …
Two Steps to Free Will
… astronomers rarely tackle philosophical issues directly. Theoretical astrophysicist Robert O. Doyle, Ph.D. ’68, associate of the department of astronomy, is an exception. For five years, Doyle has …
Issue: September-October 2012
Be Present: Experiential Holiday Gifts for Everyone on Your List
… There’s no place quite like Boston and Cambridge during the … ’Tis the season to raise a glass, and there are plenty of ways to do it around town while learning something in the … for your own soirée, plus a dozen oysters and two glasses of bubbly. www.bandgoysters.com. And if you’re feeling extra …
Issue: November-December 2018