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On My Honor
… now have an honor code—spelling out expectations of integrity in their academic work, as legislated by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) last spring. This fall, they will …
Issue: May-June 2015
A Short Proust and a Long Bellow
… For an investment house, the offices of Lipper and Company in New York City are … a big bet. That way, no single book can sink the enterprise." Lipper Publications in fact is expanding, having …
Cambridge 02138
… WOMANLESS HISTORY As a recipient of a generation's worth of alumni mailings, I've known in an intuitive way that … I've been concerned that a college which is so much the right place for my daughter might subject her to the …
Cambridge 02138
… The Legacy of Slavery As a substantive matter, reparations … merited but unfortunately competing against the legion of other horrific historical crimes crying out for … fund the remaining House renewals….” The slavery projects arise because some ancient benefactors of Harvard, by today’s …
Issue: July-August 2023
Yesterday's News
… 1912 Noting that the $50,000 maintenance fund necessary for a new music … more than 400 freshmen entering the field. 1937 Courtesy of NBC and the BBC, the Harvard Club of London hosts a live broadcast of The Game, including …
Issue: November-December 2012
Approaching Africa
… on African Studies (CAS), an interdisciplinary group of scholars who sponsor seminars and fund summer travel for … for undergraduates pursuing work on that continent. But the University has no Africa center, comparable to the … significant, growing collection, but only a fraction of the Harvard-Yenching Library’s 1.1 million Asian volumes. …
Issue: July-August 2005
Bulging with Bingsu
… My stomach growls in protest as I gulp down another spoonful of shaved ice and sweetened red bean puree. I … frozen milk, melted like snow right as it touched the tip of my tongue. The chunky red bean puree wasn’t overly sweet, …
Yesterday’s News
… 1933 Permission for a pacifist meeting of the Harvard Liberal Club on the Widener steps on Armistice … to ensure that blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans comprise 10 percent of its faculties by 1990, the centennial of …
Issue: November-December 2018
All In Her Head
… to execute a daunting front three-and-a-half tuck. One of the country’s best collegiate divers from the three-meter … the little things. As she finishes her hurdle to the front of the board, she points her arms straight up—mindful of her …
Issue: July-August 2020
Cambridge 02138
… Ukraine Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy perpetuates the claim that the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Feb. 2022 was “unprovoked” (“ The Return of … transition, and in land- sea configuration (read: sea-level rise/fall as well as continental shapes), which are rooted …
Issue: November-December 2023
Reparations for Slavery?
… Should the United States pay reparations for slavery? As … is, the federal government in fact has a long history of providing compensation to people who have suffered harms … for slavery seems a striking omission. When the subject arises, says Brooks, former president and CEO of the NAACP, …
Issue: November-December 2022
Of Coffee and Cryptogamic Botany
… On November 1, the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany celebrated its … Cryptogamic botany, for the uninitiated, is the study of spore-producing plants—organisms that turn out to have an …
Professor Video
… Near the University of Bologna—the world’s oldest, founded in 1088—is a medieval museum … displaying carved memorial plaques that honor great professors of the past. “They all show the professor on the …
Issue: November-December 2009
Christiane Amanpour to Speak at Class Day
… The Class Day speaker for 2010 will be CNN's Christiane … won nine Emmy awards and has several times been named one of the world's 100 most powerful women by Forbes magazine. An alumna of the University of Rhode Island, she has worked at CNN …
World’s Fair
… "I am the opposite of a cynic about law and lawyers," said New … on Wednesday, June 4. "I am a romantic. I think your profession has made this country what it is at its best, the freest and most wisely ordered on earth." How soon they …