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A Summery Ceremony
… The sun (graduation planners’ favorite celestial object) … the University’s 364th Commencement, and with it thousands of students stunned to find themselves awake and ambulatory … from Harvard Business School, directed by the provost to rise, had already done so, as he observed. Rakesh Khurana, …
Borowitz Reports--Topical and Timeless
… on Borowitz Report: [November 18, 2008] Obama's Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy Stunning Break with Last Eight Years In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect … over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say. Millions of …
Issue: May-June 2009
Mame-loshn at Harvard
… "He who reads his people's literature in translation," said the Hebrew-Yiddish poet Chaim Nahman Bialik, "is like one … we not orphans now, illiterate? Those mothers, indeed most of the world's Yiddish speakers--11 million before the … the rallying texts of Jewish self-defense and of Zionism. Arise and go now to the city of slaughter; Into its …
A Fictional Century
… In the opening pages of his new book, Stranger Than Fiction: … the magazine’s contributors. But the backbone of the enterprise is the “classics” series, a rigorously eclectic catalog … when he finally picked it up, he was enraptured and surprised. The resulting chapter in Stranger Than Fiction “was …
Issue: November-December 2024
Jimmy Vesey Looks Back
… More than anything else , he will miss his teammates, the guys he’s shared a rink and a bus and a bunk with for … river at the rink,” says Jimmy Vesey ’16, senior co-captain of the Harvard men’s hockey team. Earlier this month he was … this August as an unrestricted free agent, a move that surprised and rankled Nashville, raised interest from other NHL …
Prototyping House Renewal
… Renovation of the 12 undergraduate Houses —likely the College’s highest … —will advance under a plan, announced today by Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith and Harvard …
Curriculum Czar
… Propelled by the cataclysm of World War II—and a half-dozen years of prior study of the undergraduate curriculum—a …
Issue: November-December 2002
How Depression Lingers
… The diagnosis of depression rests entirely on symptoms: … extreme self-criticism and suicidal thoughts, loss of interest in activities that were once fun and satisfying, changes in sleep patterns and appetite. If these symptoms disappear, a patient is considered fully …
Issue: July-August 2009
Yesterday’s News
… 1921 The Commencement audience witnesses for the first time a “considerable group” of women standing to be declared graduates of a relatively new department of the University, the School …
Issue: May-June 2011
Harvard Citizen
… With the death of Robert G. Stone Jr. ’45, LL.D. ’03, on April 25, the University lost a rare friend. The longtime member of the Harvard Corporation (1975 to 2002) co-chaired two …
Issue: July-August 2006
Distance Learning @Harvard.edu
… New technologies, changing demographics, and the emergence of richly funded, Internet-based e-learning … in the country. The school has since created an enterprise-wide system that supports all its activities, from the …
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 …
Honorand Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, M.P.A. ’71, Shares Nobel Peace Prize
… Ellen johnson Sirleaf , M.P.A. ’71, LL.D. ’11, president of Liberia and Harvard’s 2011 Commencement speaker , has been named co-winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize . She, Leymah Gbowee (also of …
HIID Denouement
… The federal lawsuit concerning the conduct of the Harvard … investments in Russian securities and start-up enterprises by them, family members, and associates. The article …
Issue: March-April 2006
For Sciences and Art
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is in the throes of a major, multipurpose building boom, as shown …
Issue: January-February 2006