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… I have read the comments by various respondents in "Whither Harvard?" … page 52) regarding the issues facing a new president of Harvard, and I presume to make a suggestion. In light of the increasing reality of "globalization" and the "global …
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
Break Every Chain
… Most American schoolchildren learn about one Southern bus ride—on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, … and would give him the seat in two blocks when she got off. Unprompted, the man punched Garner in the face twice, … legal culture.” This rich history of black civil suits surprised Eatmon’s mentors. “In many people’s minds, [the Jim …
Issue: January-February 2024
Gutenberg 2.0
… "Throw it in the charles," one scientist recently suggested as a fitting … at an institution whose very name honors a gift of books--but it was pointed. Increasingly, in the … and medical research are an information-processing enterprise, that there’s an opportunity for a library that would …
Issue: May-June 2010
Mortarboards and Hardhats
… The crowning events of Commencement take place in Tercentenary Theatre and the Old Yard — the epicenter of Harvard's traditional campus, all aged brick and …
Issue: May-June 2003
Raising Her Voice
… For many years, Reid Parsons ’15 didn’t think of her voice as something to be trained. It was always just there, a natural part of growing up with her musical family in Vermont’s Mad River …
Issue: January-February 2023
“I Love My Vincent Baby...”
… '92, after listening carefully to his Count Basie recording of "Harvard Blues," expressed to Primus puzzlement about the lyrics, written by George Frazier '32. Basie recorded … he went on to explicate the blues: "The dogs and women of the second verse are twin prohibitions of a student …
Issue: September-October 2002
Crimson on Capitol Hill: 115th
… Other Republican victories in November notwithstanding, the tally of Harvard degree-program graduates or matriculants in the … numbered six senators and eight representatives (two of them alumnae); across the aisle were seven senators and …
Issue: January-February 2017
Iron Works House
… Open for guided tours, the Iron Works House is the only original … at the Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site. Many of its underlying structural elements have survived, ranger … and household items. But they also learn there’s no proof that the Colonial-era home looked like what’s there now. …
Issue: September-October 2016
Opera Reimagined
… On the last day of winter break, as other undergraduates emerged from taxis and the T bleary-eyed and hauling suitcases, the cast of the Lowell House Opera gathered in the Lowell Junior …
De Gustibus
… Perhaps the most cheerful restaurant dining room in Cambridge is the … location "somewhere in the Boston area." The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will expunge the pleasure spot; it has … advertising Hasty Pudding theatricals. Gone will be the rooftop garden for an al fresco "foie gras moment" (seared …
Salzburg Celebration
… In addition to the half-century anniversary of the Marshall Plan (see … May-June ), 1997 marks a similar milestone in the life of a continuing institution, the Salzburg Seminar. Conceived …
Far-Flung Fellows
… ’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2007-2008 academic year will be Liz Goodwin ’08 and Samuel Bjork ’09, who were selected after an evaluation of writing submitted by 30 student applicants for the position the largest pool of candidates in the program s history. The Fellows, who …
Issue: September-October 2007
New Schedule, New Math
… At its regularly scheduled meeting this afternoon, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS): adopted a new, uniform schedule … for classes, beginning in 2018, anticipating the expansion of the campus across the Charles River in 2020; discussed …
With IDEASpHERE, Kennedy School Launches Capital Campaign
… With a two-day event styled “ IDEASpHERE ,” the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) launched its part of the University-wide $6.5-billion capital campaign on May 15 and 16. HKS has set a goal of raising $500 million. Although its graduates do not rank, …