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Raising Voices
… During the University’s traumatic fall semester, several harshly … 5 hearing, characterizing Harvard as a woke cesspool of antisemitism. Anti-diversity activist Christopher Rufo … population.” And, Eisgruber notes, “Standards have also risen on the faculty.” Those who “disparage the excellence …
Issue: May-June 2024
Garden Refuge
… The Dumbarton Oaks gardens —formal gardens in the European … that acknowledges their setting—are laid out as a series of “garden rooms,” with walls formed by trees in some cases, … with the result that something new lurks around each twist of the winding paths. One has the constant feeling of going …
Issue: May-June 2008
Manufacturing: Willy C. Shih
… An interview with Willy C. Shih, professor of management practice, HBS’s technology and operations management unit. Read the complete article, “Can America Compete?” …
Issue: September-October 2012
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 …
Brevia
… Marc Hauser Resigns Professor of psychology Marc Hauser , who was found “solely … page 58), he had been denied permission to teach during the new academic year. The case remains under federal …
Issue: September-October 2011
Allston Budget Billions
… Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement with an Agassiz neighborhood group about the scope of development there during the next 25 years. In a "memorandum of understanding," Harvard committed to building no more …
Issue: March-April 2004
Flame and Ashes
… Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement with an Agassiz neighborhood group about the scope of development there during the next 25 years. In a "memorandum of understanding," Harvard committed to building no more …
Issue: March-April 2004
Agassiz Agreement
… Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement with an Agassiz neighborhood group about the scope of development there during the next 25 years. In a "memorandum of understanding," Harvard committed to building no more …
Issue: March-April 2004
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
“A Nation Arguing with Its Conscience”
… Warren professor of American history James T. Kloppenberg, a specialist in the intellectual history of the United States and Europe and … passage of healthcare reform, many Americans expressed surprise. But given the intensity of public disagreement on the …
Issue: November-December 2010
“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
Alumnae and War
… The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, part of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, is creating a …
Issue: January-February 2006
Read All About It
… Beyond its reunion symposiums, the class of 1950 has elicited reviews of the state of knowledge--and the state of the world--from …
"Chinese" Wilson, Shutterbug
… The legendary explorer was at home behind the camera. … your Sanderson field camera, cumbersome tripod, and crates of 6 1/2-by -8 1/2-inch glass-plate negatives. Thus … In 1899 Veitch Nurseries sent him to China to find seeds of the handkerchief or dove tree, Davidia involucrata. …
“Something Is Very Broken”
… Telling the broccoli story, even now, makes Usha Thakrar burn. It … the fresh produce rolled into Stonefield Farm, headquarters of the Boston Area Gleaners, in exurban Acton. As executive director of the food rescue organization, Thakrar, M.P.P. ’95, …
Issue: May-June 2023