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Fellows Three
… A day before Commencement , the Harvard Corporation elected three new members , with the consent of the Board of Overseers: Lawrence S. Bacow, M.P.P.-J.D. ’76, Ph.D. ’78; …
Issue: July-August 2011
A Dominant Dean
… afternoon conversation in Wadsworth House, where he had an office between his two terms of service as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Jeremy R. Knowles …
Issue: July-August 2008
Danielle Allen: What Do COVID-19 and Extreme Inequality Mean for American Democracy?
… America's response to the COVID-19 crisis, says political philosopher Danielle … "the biggest possible announcement one could have of the broken state of affairs" in our nation's democracy. … now would not be necessary. Marina Bolotnikova: Has it surprised you that that hasn't happened, or what do you think …
A Summery Ceremony
… The sun (graduation planners’ favorite celestial object) … the University’s 364th Commencement, and with it thousands of students stunned to find themselves awake and ambulatory … from Harvard Business School, directed by the provost to rise, had already done so, as he observed. Rakesh Khurana, …
Remember Luck’s Role, Faust Tells Seniors
… make you an extraordinary group,” President Drew Faust told the class of 2012 in her May 22 Baccalaureate address. Faust recounted … to demonstrate just what one can accomplish with the help of a hot breakfast (“What am I going to do without that …
Challenges to Harvard’s President: An Update
… The following are developments since the confrontational Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting following the announcement of the forthcoming resignation of Dean William C. Kirby. At …
Alec Baldwin: Legal Envy
… The celebrated actor Alec Baldwin, winner of two Emmy Awards … of films, television shows, and theatrical productions, surprised many in the audience with his Class Day speech at …
A Cancer Begins
… Leonard Zon has captured the moment when a single cell first becomes cancerous—and he … to stop the disease even before it begins. Zon, a professor of stem cell and regenerative biology in the Faculty of Arts …
Issue: May-June 2016
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
Convocation 2022: Grow in Wisdom
… College’s newest incoming class was welcomed with a mixture of good wishes and stiff warnings, drawn in part from the troubled national politics of today. It was the first … not just at Harvard but throughout life and you will be surprised by the number of friends you will acquire, people …
Football: Harvard 41, Dartmouth 10
… After record passing displays in three midseason games, the football team unlimbered its ground attack at the … only Ivy League team without a league loss, a game ahead of Brown, Penn, and Yale in the standings. Brown dealt Penn … rushed for 126 yards on 15 carries. Each back had a pair of touchdowns. Never before had three Harvard backs rushed …
A Rebel with Numerous Causes
… It was November 1966, and Carl Pope '67, stationed in front of Quincy House, was about to get one of his first tastes of political activism. Pope, now executive director of the Sierra Club, the country's oldest and largest …
Issue: July-August 2002
Matthew Potts Appointed Harvard Pusey Minister
… M atthew Ichihashi Potts, professor of religious studies and literature, has been appointed Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer professor of Christian …
A Sister’s Plea for Her Brother’s Freedom
… in solitary confinement in January 2019, Ekpar Asat cut the nails of fellow detainees in a Xinjiang concentration camp for … lives in the United States and is fighting for the release of her brother, a political prisoner of the Chinese …
“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 …