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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
$6 Billion-Plus
… article was reported, two more schools provided data on the status of their campaign fundraising. The Harvard Kennedy School … gifts totaling $432 million (toward a $500-million goal) as of last June 30; its extensive campus renovation and …
Issue: November-December 2015
New Traditions
… A place 388 years young naturally has lots of traditions. Yet it keeps adding new ones. Among the latter is the first-year convocation, held for the … term on September 3. Their intersection at the beginning of each academic year has taken on added significance as a …
Issue: November-December 2024
New Leaders
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and the new …
Issue: July-August 2006
Good Dogs
… Winters in Kugaaruk, an Inuit community on the Gulf of Boothia in Canada’s Nunavut Territory, are cold, … My dogs never broke down.” Now retired as the librarian of the Tozzer Library at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of …
Issue: January-February 2011
New Leaders
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and the new …
Issue: July-August 2007
Tommy Lee Jones Awarded Harvard Arts Medal
… Film actor Tommy Lee Jones ’69 received the Harvard Arts Medal on Thursday, April 27, in Sanders … she noted that Jones “can take us to the crossroads of the comic and the terrible, the violent and the … long as I live.” Jones has appeared in 50 motion pictures, often in starring roles, and has received a sheaf of awards …
Yesterday’s News
… 1924 In a likely first for Harvard, mother and son Martha Brown Fincke, M.Ed. ’24, and C. Louis … well rep resented in the Summer School: J.R. Brewster ’25, of the Harvard Film Service, offers for the first time a course in the development of …
Issue: July-August 2019
Tax Collection and Civil Society
… Around the world , tax receipts in low- and middle-income countries … people’s willingness to pay. Absent a strong culture of civic participation, policymakers need to find ways to … reported that the “going rate” for bribe payments had risen. “We forgot that the tax collector is living in the …
Issue: January-February 2017
Avant-Garde Incubator
… The blip festival may be unfamiliar to you, but for lovers … A weekly e-mail and the website keep audiences apprised of what is coming up, as do pieces in the magazine …
Issue: March-April 2007
Atul Gawande: Excellence Is Recognizing Details, Failures
… In the professional world , what separates greatness from mere … a cystic fibrosis treatment center in Minnesota miles ahead of a similar program in Cincinnati? Why are certain teachers getting first-rate results in the classroom when others are merely getting by? Atul …
Yesterday’s News
… 1925 The Harvard Glee Club—winner a year earlier—withdraws from … annual intercollegiate competition at Carnegie Hall because of the musical inferiority of the selection (“Lamp in the West,” by H.W. Parker) chosen …
Issue: November-December 2020
Why Diverse Literature Matters
… What role do educators have in changing and shaping the cultural attitudes and social practices that … Toni Morrison's God Help The Child recently, as part of a faculty seminar and presentation, got me thinking about … the themes were too advanced for their grade. I was surprised to hear this, given that other seventh-grade books …
Superfan
… Markus '60 is nearly as ubiquitous as crimson jerseys. For the past two seasons, he's been in the stands for all … wrestling, fencing, tennis, squash, water polo, softball, volleyball...actually, the shorter list is what he hasn't seen: of Harvard's 41 varsity sports, Markus has turned out for …
Issue: September-October 2003
HAA Award Winners 2011
… The Harvard Alumni Association Awards were established in … ceremony took place on October 13, during the HAA board of directors’ fall meeting. Michael A. Cooper ’57, LL.B. ’60, of New York City, is a member of the Overseers’ visiting …
Issue: November-December 2011