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"Knitt Together...As One"
… by your trust, inspired by your charge. I am grateful to the Governing Boards for their confidence, and I thank all of you for gathering in these festival rites. I am indebted … all that they have given to Harvard and for what each of them has given so generously to me—advice, wisdom, …
Issue: November-December 2007
Cambridge 02138
… It will take my beloved College 20 years to overcome the damage it has done in running Summers off. What were you thinking of, you at the FAS? That only … Harvard will suffer grievously. Tuitions have certainly risen too high. Harvard, like America generally, is probably …
Issue: May-June 2006
July-August 2024
… The July-August 2024 issue of Harvard Magazine. … …
Brevia
… Cash Conservation Crimson Style The Harvard Financial Aid Initiative aims both to attract … housing one’s parents during the hideously expensive week of Commencement festivities. Science Summer Camp The … a pilot Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE) this summer, from June 19 through August 25, following …
Issue: March-April 2006
A Dean for All Weathers
… When he announced on February 11 that he would relinquish the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) deanship this June, Jeremy R. … to be A-." So the second offer of the deanship—a surprise, in light of his earlier reluctance—appeared as an …
Issue: May-June 2002
Seriously Goofy
… TV was bad for her. During a Jeopardy broadcast, Chee’s mother had her count how many times producers cut to different … a writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC, her fear of television has long faded. Now she often appears herself, mostly on the recurring segment “What …
Issue: July-August 2020
Alumnae Environmentalists Win Heinz Awards
… The Heinz Family Foundation today conferred Heinz Awards on … established by Teresa Heinz in 1993, honor the memory of her late husband, U.S. Senator John Heinz, M.B.A. ’63, by recognizing the extraordinary achievements of individuals in the areas of greatest importance to him.) …
Downloading Deafness
… Most of us by now have had problems communicating with an … headphone user who ignores our impatient repetitions of “Excuse me” at ever-increasing volume. Don’t expect that … get worse, as headphone listeners go from being deaf to the world to being simply deaf. The bright white iPod …
Issue: March-April 2006
Locking Down Crime?
… If a nation's crime rate is any measure of its gentility, the United States is getting downright civilized. From 1990 … crime--which for the FBI's statistical purposes includes offenses such as murder, rape, robbery, and arson--dropped …
Citizen Soldier
… Seth W. Moulton ’01, M.B.A.-M.P.P. ’11, must be the first person to have joined the U.S. Marines because he … Gomes. “Reverend Gomes talked a lot about the importance of service, and how it wasn’t enough just to believe in … Moulton remembers. “It was through spending a lot of time at Memorial Church and listening to him that I …
Issue: March-April 2014
Money-Manager Transition
… The University announced on January 11 that Jack R. Meyer, M.B.A. '69, president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company (HMC), would "conclude … and then left to establish private money-management enterprises -- typically with a contract to continue managing …
Issue: March-April 2005
Seeing Allston Whole
… development projects in Allston, residents fear that their neighborhood—which they describe as uniquely … a lot like Boston’s Seaport district: a sterile landscape of laboratory buildings and luxury housing that skews … to the east of the SEC, the University’s future Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) will take shape . The imagined …
Yesterday’s News
… 1926 A Crimson poll of students and faculty members on their attitudes toward Prohibition finds that 29 percent … rigorous enforcement, and 43 percent favor modification of the law banning the possession and consumption of …
Issue: May-June 2021
Harvard Cheating Inquiry: Faust, Smith, Harris Remarks
… Although the subject appeared nowhere on the agenda of the first … had addressed the issue publicly since, nor did it arise in Faust’s traditional beginning-of-year message to the …
Football: Harvard 34, Yale 7
… Once again , the big game went Harvard’s way. Tailback Paul Stanton … won seven straight over the Bulldogs, has prevailed in 12 of the teams’ last 13 meetings, and has not lost at Yale … to the season-ending victory, Dartmouth's 28-24 upset of Princeton—previously unbeaten in Ivy League play—gave …