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Yesterday's News
… 1911 Freshman Lionel de Jersey Harvard becomes the first relative of John Harvard to register in the College. 1926 A $10,000 … for Street Traffic Research, headquartered on the top floor of Widener Library. Certain law students receive a letter …
Issue: September-October 2011
Yesterday’s News
… 1932 The Harvard Hall bell is moved to the top of the just-completed spire of Memorial Church. “Nearly everyone who enters or leaves …
Issue: July-August 2012
Aid Augmented
… To make attending the College more affordable for lower- and middle-income … than $60,000 will no longer have to contribute to the cost of their children’s undergraduate education (the limit had … can now apply any outside scholarships they receive to offset their summer-savings obligation of $2,150; …
Issue: May-June 2006
Wheat and War in Ukraine
… In 1933, Joseph Stalin engineered a genocide that led to the death by starvation of an estimated four million Ukrainians. Stalin set … who is the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants, is not surprised by this echo of the horrific events of 1933. She …
Brevia
… Marc Hauser Resigns Professor of psychology Marc Hauser , who was found “solely … page 58), he had been denied permission to teach during the new academic year. The case remains under federal …
Issue: September-October 2011
Presidential Portrait
… On the chill, blustery afternoon of May 1, a piece of Harvard’s … instead focusing on a few points about the university enterprise and the importance of the faculty. (The role of the …
Issue: July-August 2006
Steve Gould's Baseball Blind Spot
… The favorite baseball player of the late Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)—as readers of a … lot to do with the earlier rounds of selection in any enterprise, but what you put into it on your own, how hard you …
Issue: March-April 2003
Picking Harvard's Pocket
… The entrance strategy was simple. On Saturday afternoon, … was just inside the service entrance on the north side of the museum. Ryan didn't appear, and so that guard turned … lbs., no other description, came to the north entrance of the Fogg Museum and stated that he was Mr. Ryan and he …
Addie's Plaque, George's Hair
… When a construction crew demolished a wall on the east side of the level-2 stacks in Widener during Phase 1 of renovations, they came upon a tarnished bronze plaque …
Issue: January-February 2002
Yesterday's News
… 1929 The Student Council criticizes the administration’s plan to erect one of the newly endowed Houses east of DeWolfe Street, arguing that the future Dunster House …
Issue: January-February 2009
HAA Clubs and SIGs awards
… groups that have made exceptional contributions to their Harvard communities. Recipients of this year’s Outstanding Voluntary Leadership Award are … Hegarty ’82 and Robert Manson, M.P.A. ’04, past presidents of the Harvard Club of Boston and the Harvard Club of …
Issue: November-December 2022
Kevin Young to Address Harvard Alumni Association
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), which previously … will appear as a principal guest speaker. Young, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture , is an acclaimed …
Paradigm Shift
… From the dawn of the twenty-first century until last fall, the football squads of Pennsylvania and Harvard ruled the Ivy League roost. …
Issue: January-February 2006
Brevia
… A Grand Finale Jameson Marvin , formally director of choral activities at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges since 1978, retires at the end of this academic year. Familiar to freshmen from their first …
Issue: July-August 2010
"Art Is a Dark Mirror"
… Ellen Harvey ’89 is between shows, so most of her work is packed up, the walls of her studio baring their industrial concrete. … traditional art techniques to comment on “art” as an enterprise, and to point out its potential for multiple …
Issue: May-June 2016