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Yesterday’s News
… 1930 The Harvard Engineering Society enjoys an illustrated address on the building and running of the first vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River from … readers to help the University Archives by clipping news of Harvard men, particularly from papers outside the Boston …
Issue: March-April 2020
Kissinger Returns
… 11 for a conversation on foreign policy before a full house of students and others in Sanders Theatre. Now the chairman of Kissinger … sides have to make a decision, before they get into these crises, of working on cooperative solutions.” As Immanuel …
Aging Gracefully at Home
… As board president of Staying Put in New Canaan, Tom Towers, M.B.A. ’64, believes in self-reliance. The Connecticut organization, modeled after Boston’s Beacon … “It means ‘Don’t feel sorry for yourself getting old! Get off your duff and do something about it.’” Such private, …
Issue: January-February 2008
Housing after Randomization
… In the annals of undergraduate housing, the graduation of the class of 2001 marked the end of an …
Issue: November-December 2001
What Counts
… The things that can be counted, count. That saying enjoys a … precincts—in academia, especially among practitioners of many of the quantitative social sciences and the sciences proper. …
Issue: March-April 2019
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 …
Far-out Sagittarian
… An artist's rendering of OGLE-TR-56b and its star Illustration courtesy … for Astrophysics Five thousand light years from Earth, in the constellation Sagittarius, astronomers have discovered a … its years last only 29 hours, while the surface temperature rises to 3000 degrees Fahrenheit, which may cause unusual …
Issue: March-April 2003
Lights. Action. Asthma.
… Medical histories can be rather dry affairs: a doctor at a desk interviews a patient … could take a few weeks to do the job. Under the guidance of instructor in pediatrics Michael Rich, M.D. '91, patients … reports and what he saw on their tapes, but he was surprised by the magnitude of the difference. The tapes …
“Reverse-Engineering Chinese Censorship”
… In a talk at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences on September 12, Gary King , Weatherhead University Professor and director of the Institute for Quantitative …
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 …
Overseer and Director Candidates
… Ballots (mailed out by April 1) must be received at the indicated address by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on May 15 to be counted. All holders of Harvard degrees, except Corporation members and officers of instruction and government, are entitled to vote …
Issue: March-April 2018
Vita: John Usher Monro
… In the spring of 1967, John U. Monro ’34 made national … befuddled Harvard colleagues—by resigning as dean of the College and moving to Miles , a cash-strapped, …
Issue: May-June 2013
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
Claudine Gay Named Harvard’s Thirtieth President
… C laudine Gay —dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) since 2018—will … advice of three excellent advisory committees—comprised of faculty, students, and staff from across Harvard’s …
Edwin Ginn
… There will be no need of great national armies,” Edwin Ginn … in 1901, once an international force controlled by a league of nations exists to put down aggressions. Nations would then be prepared to submit disputes to an international …
Issue: September-October 2006