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A “Common Space” at Harvard’s Crossroads
… Photograph by Joost Bataille Chris Reed '91 Among the most heavily used, but least inviting, common areas on … consult the campus map ), defined by the northern boundary of Harvard Yard, the ascending bulk of the Science Center, and the western side of Memorial …
Faust Receives Indian Welcome
… Associate editor Elizabeth Gudrais reports from Mumbai: The world may be flat, with technology enabling robust … President Drew Faust told an audience at the University of Mumbai today, alluding to Thomas Friedman’s global … Faust said, such a world requires that the tradition of liberal-arts education persist. “Connectivity and …
New Leaders
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and the new …
Issue: July-August 2007
Unleashing Harvard’s Art Museums
… Abundant light and glass will greet visitors when the Harvard Art Museums reopen at 32 Quincy Street on … November 16. The centrally located Calderwood Courtyard now rises through five stories to a glass roof. Natural light from this “lantern” suffuses the space and …
Issue: November-December 2014
Divinity School Launches New Degree Programs
… first new master’s degree program in more than 50 years, the master of religion and public life (MRPL). Coupled with a similarly … Oxfam improved the outcomes of humanitarian responses to crises. Moore hopes the students and Fellows alike will …
Issue: September-October 2021
Agenda-Setting
… With a new administration comes a new agenda. The election of Lawrence S. Bacow as Harvard’s twenty-ninth … with observations from strolling around the place. They arise in the context of continuing financial constraint …
Issue: May-June 2018
Academic Freedom and Ethical Limits
… New technologies create controversy. They challenge our thinking, leading to debate and concern. When recombinant DNA was discovered, the city of Cambridge banned all work with the new technology. … human embryonic stem-cell research has compelled a group of Harvard alumni, students, faculty, and staff members to …
Issue: July-August 2004
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
Quincy Jones and Harvard
… LARGELY MISSED in the rush of encomia to beloved musician Quincy Jones, who recently died at the age of 91, were his multiple Harvard connections. He received an …
Volleys in F# Major
… The musical guns are blasting on Broadsides: A Miscellany of … In ragtime, rock, and reggae, the pair explore a gamut of social ills, from the specter of a “Zombie Bank” to the …
Issue: March-April 2011
Who Gets to Keep the Ring?
… Are you breaking up with me? Eric: Are you giving me back the ring? Donna: Yes. — That '70s Show , "The Promise Ring" What happens if “I do” ends…otherwise? Stanton professor of the first amendment Rebecca Tushnet is an expert in the …
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
ArtWeek 2019
… Screenings from The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival. A match-up of poets and painters on Cape Cod. Dancing along Malden’s … by Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, the sculptures comprise 2,000 plastic drinking bottles collected from regional …
Issue: March-April 2019
Educational Activist
… Even though apartheid in South Africa ended more than a decade ago, … Clarke went to South Africa in 1995 to start a branch office for the consulting firm Abt Associates. “In the back of my mind, I had a goal of making a lasting contribution …
Issue: January-February 2009
Larry 29
… The sun shone brightly on Harvard and Lawrence S. Bacow on … in my lifetime, people are actually questioning the value of sending a child to college. For the first time in my … “both reassuring truths and unsettling truths,” which arise from those “who challenge our thinking.” Harvard must …
Issue: November-December 2018