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A New Challenge for Antitrust
… In the last few years, a new type of financial consolidation has caught the attention of antitrust regulators. Institutional investors—big …
Issue: January-February 2018
“People Who Look like You”
… A. Batts '69, J.D. '72, who is U.S. district judge for the Southern District of New York, described coming to Cambridge to find herself one of eight African-American undergraduates in her Radcliffe …
Issue: January-February 2004
David Carrasco
… In the hands of this man, ideas become living things. An historian of religion who holds joint appointments in the department of anthropology and the Harvard Divinity …
Issue: January-February 2002
The Academic Agenda
… The panel discussions accompanying Harvard’s presidential installations provide a good outline of each new administration’s chief academic interests, and … so it was on Friday morning, September 29. Four and a half of the six sessions align directly with subjects Claudine …
Issue: November-December 2023
Education, Reschooled
… Next fall, as K-12 schoolchildren throughout the country resume full-time classes, however transformed by the coronavirus, some of their future teachers, principals, and superintendents … In the 2021-2022 academic year, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) will debut the new curriculum for its …
Issue: May-June 2021
Jeremy Lin Sets New Harvard Mark
… was a stellar night for Harvard men’s basketball, as the Crimson narrowly defeated the Columbia Lions 57-52, and … Celtics, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, the NBA’s official statistician, as reported by ESPN. According to the … George Washington and Boston College. The Knicks signed Lin off of waivers in late December after he was released by …
Is There an App for That?
… The Lost Generation. The Greatest Generation. Generation X. … digital age really different?” asks Howard Gardner, Hobbs professor of cognition and education. Six years ago, he and …
Issue: November-December 2013
Harvard Settles Antisemitism Lawsuits
… This story has been updated below with details of Harvard's rollout of its new antisemitism definition. At a December 5, 2023 hearing of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Rep. …
Extracurricular Communities
… I think it came to me on a bleak November day, in the middle of an equally bleak economics lecture, as I perched high in the lofty wood bleachers of Sanders Theatre. If this were all I …
Issue: January-February 2004
Sheryl Sandberg Named Class Day Speaker
… ’91, M.B.A. ’95, a best-selling author, chief operating officer of Facebook, and founder of LeanIn.Org , will be the principal guest speaker for seniors celebrating Class …
“We’re All Animals”
… What catches the eye first are the artist’s own eyes: in her blue jay’s straight-ahead stare, the affable alertness of a mallard drake, the closed-lidded stillness of an owl butterfly. For her self-portrait photographic …
Issue: January-February 2021
Yesterday’s News
… 1917 The Crimson endorses wartime prohibition; Harvard Alumni Association officials advise against serving liquor at reunions. 1922 Despite the belief of many alumni that “one does not advertise one’s mother,” …
Issue: May-June 2012
Rashida Jones ’97 Named Class Day Speaker
… Comedic actress Rashida Jones ’97 will be the principal guest speaker for Harvard College seniors … 25. She was chosen and invited to speak by a subcommittee of eight class marshals, who considered speakers suggested by classmates as part of a senior-class survey. “I am truly honored to come back …
Foster to Speak About New England Forests
… David Foster , senior lecturer on biology and director of the Harvard Forest , will speak at an event on October 19 for alumni who are Friends of Harvard Magazine . In a special gallery talk at the …
Yesterday's News
… speaking on Commencement day afternoon, calls education the nation’s biggest industry and the one that yields the … columnist to suggest the classmates would get more food out of the president than he got votes out of them. 1949 The Harvard Law School Association council …
Issue: May-June 2009