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Lord Mayor for a Day
… friend and Dunster classmate, Michael Mainelli, was elected the 695 th Lord Mayor of London. While we both graduated from Harvard in 1984, … dignitaries. Back to Mansion House First , a surprise guest! Another classmate of Michael’s (May Pian-Smith …
Twigs Bent Left or Right
… have proposed several possibilities. It may have been the example of his father, who stood alone as one of the only Democrats … and liberals aged equally well. These similarities surprised Vaillant, a lifelong Democrat who says he has never …
Issue: January-February 2006
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 …
Seeking a Flag-Bearer!
… For more than 100 years, the Harvard College graduate who had attended the most … carried to The Game a small red silk pennant as a talisman of luck. The Little Red Flag was waved by nine men from … Red Flag, which did not incorporate the original premise of simply having seen the most H-Y games. In 2010, Spencer …
Issue: March-April 2020
Sponsored-Research Funds
… Sponsored-research funds account for about one-fifth of Harvard's operating revenue — and for 50 to 70 percent of the revenue of the schools of medicine and of public health. …
Issue: July-August 2004
Honoris Causa
… degrees at Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced the honorands, and President Drew Faust read the citations, … in the order below. Anthony S. Fauci. Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, he has led …
Issue: July-August 2009
Quincy House Renovations on View
… Harvard will embark on its first test project in renewing the 12 undergraduate Houses —a long-term undertaking … more than $1 billion and to be funded through a combination of philanthropy and University investment. At Old Quincy, … try out previously articulated design goals—elimination of walk-through bedrooms, creation of new single bedrooms …
Fostering Civil Discourse
… are students reluctant to express disagreement in and out of the classroom? In April, then-interim President Alan Garber … dialogue,” it reads, “are essential to the pursuit of academic excellence at Harvard and throughout higher …
One Shot at Hollywood
… ride.” That’s how Alex Molina A.R.T. ’15 describes DASH , the film he recently helped create, currently showing online … rideshare driver during one long, bad night on the streets of Hollywood, California. Things keep getting worse for Milly—played by Molina, the star of the film as well as a producer—who drives for an …
Harvard Medalists
… On Commencement day , three people received the HAA’s Harvard Medal, awarded for outstanding service to … the University. James V. Baker ’68, M.B.A. ’71. President of the Harvard Alumni Association and President of the Harvard Club of the United Kingdom, First Marshal of …
Issue: July-August 2013
A Culinary Journey
… Cooking practices “can open a window into the lives of enslaved people and help us understand slavery … historian Michael Twitty on the intertwined history of slavery and American foodways. The event was part of the …
Errant Oars
… wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." The secretary of the class of 1947 has asked for the help of Harvard Magazine, with its …
Issue: July-August 2005
“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 …
Convocation 2023: The New Crew
… conducted on Monday, a summery, humid Labor Day afternoon, of course welcomed new students: the 1,650 or so members of the College class of 2027 (a return to a normal, …
Dorm Decor
… room] will always be haunted by my companions who have been there, by the books that I have read there, by the pleasure … the pain that I have felt there, and by a laughing group of bright, fresh faces, that have rendered it sunny in my … there what College really is. I have learned there one part of the great secret of life." ~ from "My Old Room," by Henry …
Issue: September-October 2002