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“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
Endowment Overhaul
… Beginning his eighth week as president and CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC), N.V. Narvekar on January 25 announced sweeping changes in how the University’s $35.7-billion endowment will be invested. … fund-like investments managed internally at HMC now comprise a very small percentage of the overall endowment. We …
Issue: March-April 2017
Shadow Art
… The artifact called a silhouette is named after Etienne de Silhouette, a penny-pinching minister of finances under Louis XV, whose tenure was brief because … things on the cheap. At the same time, in the second half of the eighteenth century, an old but until then …
Issue: November-December 2014
An Academic Agenda
… Over a coffee in Harvard Square on a damp August morning—the lull before what he feared might be another stormy … perhaps, an advantage: a president with a thousand days of running room might limit his targets and emphasize what …
Issue: November-December 2024
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
“Panic” and “Friendship” at Phi Beta Kappa
… The 220th Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises, conducted … at 11 in Sanders Theatre, began the formal activities of Commencement week, providing the customary intellectual … the academic and emotional celebrations to follow. Lea professor of history Ann Blair, president of the PBK Alpha …
Well Done
… The Harvard Alumni Association Awards were established in … were to be honored on October 12 during the HAA board of directors’ annual fall meeting in Cambridge. Highlights of their many contributions are given below. Jonathan L. S. …
Issue: November-December 2009
“At Harvard...”
… Just one month ago , nearly 300 men and women, from the Class of 1961 to the Class of 2017, from across the country and … and Mark Zuckerberg honed the algorithms that spurred the rise of social media. At Harvard, poets like Longfellow, …
Issue: November-December 2013
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
Natalie Portman ’03 Named Class Day Speaker
… Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman ’03 will be the principal guest speaker for seniors celebrating Class … Day in Tercentenary Theatre on May 27, Harvard College officials have announced. She was chosen after a subcommittee of eight class marshals considered speaker suggestions based …
Current Community Partnerships
… " Reimagining the City-University Connection ," a symposium held October … Institute for Advanced Study , highlighted many examples of community partnerships involving Harvard faculty and … Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management and a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers, with …
Extreme-weather Evolution
… The green anole lizard , a spectacularly bright reptile … and in southeastern states. But during the extreme winter of 2013-2014 (resulting from a southward shift in the polar … Campbell-Staton, Ph.D. ’15, and coauthors Jonathan Losos, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, and Scott …
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
Chapter & Verse
… > William Coperthwaite seeks the source of "No night for sound, yet from the glen/Come fusillades of frost:/The random shots of frightened men/Who scatter and …
Issue: November-December 2001
Yesterday’s News
… 1929 The Law School’s Institute of Criminal Law opens, to study … have signed up to concentrate in the newly created field of Afro-American studies. A representative of Students for a …
Issue: May-June 2019