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Grade Deflation
… Jawboning works. That's the import of a letter to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) from Benedict H. Gross, dean of …
Issue: May-June 2003
Poetic Patriarch
… During the extended World War II battle of Monte Cassino, Richard … passed away in 2007 after a long illness. Near the house rises a barn-like studio, where the poet, now 87, writes …
Issue: November-December 2008
“Detaining Families Is Not Necessary”
… Óscar and Valeria Martínez , the migrant father and two-year-old daughter who were found … case, explained Sarah Sherman-Stokes, an immigration law professor at Boston University, at an event on the border … Health Institute (HGHI) Tuesday. “They get a tiny piece of paper, the size of your fingernail, that has a number on …
Brevia
… Treasurer-elect James F. Rothenberg '68, M.B.A. '70, has been elected Treasurer and a member of the Harvard Corporation, effective July 1. He succeeds D. … on College Life approval as a legitimate student enterprise. A Crimson account quoted the editors characterizing …
Issue: May-June 2004
Photography in Baldwin’s Era
… James Baldwin’s America,” on display through December 30 at the Sert Gallery, features images taken from the early 1930s … Baldwin’s lifetime, says Daisy Nam, assistant director of the Carpenter Center. Its themes include religion, music, the role of race in America, sexuality, and family life, and …
Issue: November-December 2018
Working it Out
… The senior-year job hunt began as many do: with the purchasing of a suit at the end of the summer. Mine was a black, … my senior thesis, popped into my head. “Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes,” he had warned (echoing …
Issue: May-June 2005
Yesterday's News
… Massachusetts Hall is refitted as a lecture hall to relieve the crowded conditions in Sever and Emerson Halls. 1920 … French government presents Harvard with a large collection of artifacts from the recent war—guns, bayonets, cavalry … the exhibition room.” 1925 The renovation and restoration of Massachusetts Hall is complete, following a fire a year …
Improvised Cuisine
… sounds odd —quite odd, actually—for a sandwich. Two slices of sourdough bread emerge from a toaster, then one gets slathered with peanut butter. Nothing … with the other slice of toast and take a bite. Then the surprise. The briny, vinegary pickles’ crunch contrasts …
Issue: September-October 2021
Brevia
… Professor Summers Returns The White House on September 21 announced that Lawrence H. Summers would conclude his service as director of the National Economic Council--the principal economic-policy …
Issue: November-December 2010
An Embodied Voice
… A Latin American immigrant living in Los Angeles listens to the radio on her way home. She hears a familiar … sugary but still firm voice—a teacher instructing a group of young children—explaining the concept of friction. The mother doesn’t know it, but actor Adriana …
Issue: September-October 2020
Tenure Travails
… During the 2003-2004 academic year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) extended 32 tenure offers, just four of them to women (only one of whom …
Issue: November-December 2004
Camping Pioneer
… The “camp bug” bit Kevin Gordon ’91 in college, when the … had never camped as a boy, and was impressed by the “growth of the kids, the intensity of the camp experience.” But while learning the ropes as a …
Issue: May-June 2007
Poems by Richard Wilbur
… The Writer In her room at the prow of the house Where light … in the stairwell, hearing From her shut door a commotion of typewriter-keys Like a chain hauled over a gunwale. Young …
Issue: November-December 2008
Harvard Initiates Anti-Bullying Policy
… The Office of the Provost today announced the first University-wide … policies,” said Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Sherri Charleston in the announcement. That these …
Managing Harvard: A New Deal?
… note: President Derek Bok, who wrote annual reports on the University during his service from 1971 to 1991, did so again at the end of this year of interim service. The report begins with a review of the …
Issue: July-August 2007