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Harvard Faculty Debates Free Speech
… A seemingly routine, even boring agenda for the December 6 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting at University Hall—three … the incitement to violence—matters that would certainly arise in a normal review of a prospective regular faculty …
India's Promise
… Things have never been as good for India as they appear to be today. Its economy has grown by nearly 6 … polity. In contrast to the near-famine conditions of the mid 1960s, the country sits on a mountain of grain … Contravening all constitutional norms, it precipitated crises by trying to topple opposition-led governments in …
Issue: July-August 2005
Yesterday’s News
… 1918 The Harvard Club of North China contacts President Lowell, offering a prize of $100 to the student “who writes the best …
Issue: May-June 2023
Election Results
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and new directors …
Issue: July-August 2004
Harvard Appoints Ritu Kalra as New CFO
… Harvard’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer, filling an important vacancy created by the planned retirement of Thomas J. Hollister on June 30. … funds that keep the University, now a $6-billion-plus enterprise, ticking. From the community’s perspective, it is …
Time Flying
… Félix de Rosen ’13 (who in a throat-clearing moment told the Tercentenary Theatre throng, “This feels a little bit … in section”) chose a graduation chestnut—the passage of time—as his theme, but refreshed it by tying in the story of the late Charles A. Ditmas Jr., long the keeper of the …
Issue: July-August 2013
Impermanent Art
… The darkest recesses of our refrigerators can harbor ghastly … if the hallmarks of its decay--insects, mildew, rot--comprise its intentionally changing aesthetic? Perishable art by … the Artist Documentation Project, an ambitious enterprise to gather information from modern artists in order to …
Issue: January-February 2002
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
Supreme Court Bans Race-Conscious Admissions
… admissions at both public and private institutions of higher education, ruling that the practice violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. Harvard, which previously signaled …
Cambridge 02138
… The Twenty-Ninth President Your recent story on Harvard’s … ( “The Pragmatist,” September-October, page 32). The review of Bacow’s endeavors provides a wonderful vehicle to present and develop a breadth of educational issues that generate a myriad of key …
Issue: November-December 2018
Global Health Pioneer Ophelia Dahl to Receive 2023 Radcliffe Medal
… , a human rights and social justice advocate who co-founded the international public health nonprofit Partners In Health, will receive the 2023 Radcliffe … “walking shoulder to shoulder through whatever challenges arise.” Dahl also helps lead the Roald Dahl Literary Estate, …
Listening as Activism
… Leo and I sit across the table from each other in the home his family rents in Dunedin, New Zealand. The kitchen smells of roast garlic. Two days ago I cycled up the big hill to … food, audio recorder, and a tiny guitar. Over a shared meal of roasted vegetables, Leo and I start chatting. Leo and his …
A “Magic Bus” for City Kids
… The magic bus campus , designed by professor of urban design and planning Rahul Mehrotra, aims to ease …
Issue: May-June 2012
Academia’s Absence from Homelessness
… Initiative on Health and Homelessness (IHH) is a rarity in the academic world—the first of its kind based at a school of public health, and one of only a handful of similar …
Cambridge 02138
… “Fair Harvard” and History I was greatly surprised to find my name prominent in the lead sentence of “ ‘ Puritans’ Passé? ” (The College Pump, July-August, …
Issue: September-October 2017