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Harvard Medalists
… THE HARVARD Alumni Association (HAA) awarded five Harvard … J.D. ’76, M.P.P. ’76, Ph.D. ’78, the twenty-ninth president of the University, concluded the academic year with his … foresight and resilience, deftly harnessing the strengths of Harvard’s extraordinary people in service to the …
Issue: July-August 2023
Football: Harvard 41, Holy Cross 18
… “Our strengths are probably a little bit opposite what they were last year,” said Harvard football coach Tim Murphy … football media teleconference. “Last year we had a lot of question marks on offense and we had lots of answers on defense. It might be a …
“Breaking Bad,” Harvard Style
… 300 rabid Breaking Bad fans on Thursday, anxious to hear the show’s creator and lead writer, Vince Gilligan, explain … know. (The conversation with Gilligan, sponsored by the Office for the Arts, is part of a larger series of lectures and discussions aimed at …
Soulfège Video: Sweet Mother
… When the band Soulfège reinterpreted the West African classic … 2010 issue. [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llKpxOFIPeI] … Shot in Ghana, a reinterpretation of the West African classic by a band including Derrick …
Issue: September-October 2010
Fried Eggs and Bacon
… Illustration by Rick Stromoski Librarians tell of a great diversity of items used as bookmarks by library patrons and later … photographs abound. Paper money is not a rare find, and there's the occasional payable check. Norma Jessop, special …
Painting with Flashlights
… In 2017, artist Kay Kenny traveled to Arizona in the winter so she wouldn’t have to wait until midnight to … paint with the light in the darkness.” She’s taken hundreds of such nighttime images, also venturing into the pitch-black fields, woods, and farmlands of New England and upstate New York, where she lives. “There …
Issue: July-August 2019
Cambridge Scholars
… Four members of the class of 2011 have won Harvard Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2010-2011 academic year. English concentrator Molly …
Issue: July-August 2011
Cambridge 02138
… Challenging China The roundtable ( “Changing, Challenging China,” March-April, … subject I have seen anywhere. I hope people in positions of responsibility and shapers of opinion will take note, … Pasadena, Calif. Some salient realities on China’s rise emerged from the roundtable discussion among your seven …
Issue: May-June 2010
Cambridge 02138
… Other Truths Like Professor Stuart Schreiber, I found out by accident that my dad was not actually my biological father ( “Truth: A Love Story,” July-August, page 53). Unlike … 16, and was able to determine within 24 hours the identity of my bio-dad, when I walked into my girlfriend’s home room …
Issue: September-October 2019
Yesterday's News
… 1935 The Summer School hosts multiple discussions of national … as the earlier struggles in this country for the principle of liberty.” They encourage “bring[ing] into schools and …
Issue: July-August 2020
Great Expectations
… Late in the evening of Friday, September 16, after nearly 53 minutes of indifferent play in its season opener against Merrimack , …
Issue: November-December 2022
On “Inspiration” and an Ohio Swimming Hole
… The two-hundred twenty-first Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) literary exercises—the beginning of Harvard’s formal Commencement activities—were conducted … business, Alpha Iota Chapter president Ann Blair, Lea professor of history and Harvard College Professor, directed …
This Land Is Your Land
… Last year the nonprofit Trust for Public Land (TPL) released a study on transforming a 22-mile loop of largely abandoned railroad tracks and land around the heart of Atlanta into a series of connected parks with …
Issue: July-August 2006
Overseer and HAA 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 …
Picture-Perfect
… blue sky, low humidity, comfortably breezy in the mid 60s, spring-green leaves and lots of flowering things—made for a picture-perfect 367th … final formal encomium, a Harvard Medal , purportedly a surprise. Given her lifelong engagement with civil rights, and …
Issue: July-August 2018