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In Flight
… In the fall of 2015, Maciek Nabrdalik , a Warsaw-based … photographer, turned to a contemporary humanitarian crisis: the plight of refugees fleeing ceaseless wars. Nabrdalik, a Nieman …
Issue: January-February 2017
Extracurriculars
… The University and its environs offer a robust mix of activities this fall, ranging from watching boat races on the Charles River and feasting on bratwurst in the Square to …
Issue: September-October 2005
Cambridge 02138
… ARGUING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE Joan Wickersham’s exploration of “ Bricks and Politics ” (September-October, page 50) … M.B.A. ’79 Beverly Hills, Calif. We have been cursed with the sort of architectural abomination that darkens the cover of this issue of Harvard Magazine , the high-rise housing complex at One Western Avenue. The worst of the …
Issue: November-December 2007
Tobacco Smoke and Tuberculosis
… Smoking is one of the largest risk factors for contracting or dying from … may finally explain why. They also identified two types of existing drugs that may help reverse the effect. Tobacco …
Fanny Kemble
… When Fanny Kemble landed in the United States in the fall of 1832, her formidable theatrical reputation had whipped up a frenzy of anticipation. Born into the first family of the English …
An American in Paris
… students are venturing abroad, for term or summer study or other experiences, with the College’s encouragement. The first of two reports on such experiences in the “Old Europe,” by … to be shocked—and I was. Many of the most striking surprises came from being plunged into a foreign education …
Issue: July-August 2005
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
Harvard Imposes Single-Gender Social Club Sanctions
… Harvard College will implement the sanctions on student membership in unrecognized … first announced by President Drew Faust and dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana in May 2016 . The news came at the beginning of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting this …
Envisioning Arts and Sciences Anew
… In his annual decanal letter to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), published February … issue to be addressed, he urges, as the professorial census rises. FAS's physical planning embraces completion of large …
Issue: March-April 2005
Convocation 2016: “I Urge You to Be Idealists”
… Each new Harvard class will gather together on just two occasions before they … address; and at Freshman Convocation, for which the Class of 2020 gathered on a mercifully cool August afternoon. … the world, and what they might tell us about the purpose of a university. “Media present us with an unrelenting flow …
Paper Persists
… University who retired as SUNY Distinguished Service Professor emeritus in 2004, wrote recently about his newly … and Memorial Column Monuments, from Ancient Times to the 21st Century . “I am not able to send you a copy” for … intellectually and during turning points such as the crises of April 1969. He also helped the United States and …
Issue: May-June 2019
“Learning to See” and Kicking Off Commencement 2018
… Graduating seniors and their entourages gathered in Sanders Theatre this morning … for the 228th Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises, officially kicking off Commencement 2018. This year’s ceremony was a special …
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 …
A Conversation with Maureen McLane ’89
… on a Rhodes Scholarship before earning her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She is now a professor of English at NYU. In … I played Williams Carlos Williams. People are always surprised, as I was, by his voice—you tend to think of Williams …
University People
… Enterprise Editor Now at the helm of Harvard Business Review is Thomas A. Stewart … and at Williams College and Smith College. … Enterprise Editor Now at the helm of Harvard Business Review is …
Issue: January-February 2003