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“Effortless Perfection”
… This past winter , a class of ’73 graduate asked me whether students still spend hours lingering over meals. He … Harvard students might be going through the same sorts of crises with the rest of us entirely oblivious. I wondered how …
Issue: July-August 2012
Football 2023: Harvard 38-Holy Cross 28
… Football consists of three components: offense, defense, and special teams. On Saturday at Polar … in Worcester, Massachusetts, Harvard excelled in all three. The upshot was a major upset, with the Crimson taking down …
Laugh Lines
… In the best unscripted moment of the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, chapter president Ann Blair, Lea professor of history, inadvertently proceeded directly from …
Issue: July-August 2010
“Harvard Soldier Scholars”
… Before proud parents , friends, and a contingent of alumni veterans, four new “Harvard soldier scholars,” in the words of President Drew Faust, participated in the annual …
Collaboration on Climate Change
… Continuing a busy visit to the People’s Republic of China—following an alumni and … alters ecosystems and global carbon emissions continue to rise. There is a proverb that the best time to plant a tree …
Harvard to Keep Arthur Sackler’s Name on Museum and Building
… The Harvard Corporation has accepted a recommendation not to … request was originally submitted in October 2022 by a group of students who argued that Arthur Sackler’s association … dename Winthrop House is ongoing. In 1952, Arthur Sackler cofounded, with his two brothers, the pharmaceutical company …
Installation: A Summers Day
… as Harvard's twenty-seventh president on October 12. The occasion had many of the trappings of a Commencement with half the … And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass …
Issue: November-December 2001
Crimson in Congress, II
… Our list of Harvard matriculants in the 112th Congress (January-February, page 60) accidentally … , J.D. ’94, a new Republican representative from Kansas. Then on February 8, Jane Harman, J.D. ’69, D-Calif., the …
Issue: March-April 2011
Woodcarving: A Master Class
… width:407] Master woodcarver David Esterly ’66— profiled in the July-August issue of this magazine —describes the art of carving limewood, …
Summers to Step Down
… UPDATE: See the University news release announcing President Lawrence H. … 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 …
HAA Reviews Classes
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) is reorganizing the way … results were to be presented at the annual spring meeting of HAA directors on April 15. “This is not a ‘gotcha’ game of ‘How much money do you raise?’” says Timothy P. McCarthy …
Issue: May-June 2011
Alexander Rehding
… The son of a dentist and a psychologist, Peabody professor of music Alexander Rehding thought he’d end up in … music program. “I was incredibly naïve.” To his surprise, he got in. The first three years presented a rigorous …
Issue: July-August 2019
Callimachus
… Theon, a would-be critic: Callimachus! It’s not often we run … the Library. Have you come to see the victory procession of our benefactor, King Ptolemy? We all enjoyed that Hymn to …
Issue: July-August 2020
Whither Harvard?
… In early 1991, as the Corporation was completing its search for a successor to … published "Fixing the Turnips," by Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn (March-April 1991, page 75). The … pace. It may not be an advantage when the whole enterprise needs to head briskly in some new directions. Change is …
Young Audubon
… Early Drawings , Harvard University Press. ©2008 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. A belted … become the internationally celebrated John James Audubon of The Birds of America overnight. Indeed, his early life …
Issue: September-October 2008