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Yesterday’s News
… 1917 The Crimson endorses wartime prohibition; Harvard Alumni Association officials advise against serving liquor at reunions. 1922 Despite the belief of many alumni that “one does not advertise one’s mother,” …
Issue: May-June 2012
Hard Bargaining
… The contract between the University and the Harvard Union of … that is, the portion of the premium an employee pays rises depending on her or his wages or salary. For 2012, …
“Something Is Very Broken”
… Telling the broccoli story, even now, makes Usha Thakrar burn. It … the fresh produce rolled into Stonefield Farm, headquarters of the Boston Area Gleaners, in exurban Acton. As executive director of the food rescue organization, Thakrar, M.P.P. ’95, …
Issue: May-June 2023
American Stories, in Wood
… Fusing the traditional craft of marquetry (wood inlay) with … and black life in Brooklyn—artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor offers hybridized views of American life. Realistic, … Her meticulous control of materials is clear in the 50 works on display in “Alison Elizabeth Taylor: The Sum …
Issue: March-April 2023
An Acrobat Takes Flight
… “When things are really well-timed between two people, there’s this moment where you’re like, ‘Oh, that was … uses no equipment, just the combined strength and agility of (usually) two people—a flyer (Soltys Morse) and a base (sometimes called a porter)—balancing on top of each other to execute tumbling throws, leaps, lifts, and …
Issue: May-June 2022
Set to Commence
… The marshals of the College class of 2008 gathered with classmates for the …
Issue: July-August 2008
Cambridge 02138
… As the panelists in your roundtable discussion "Cities and … about where they live. While some perceive that advances of the Internet and e-commerce render place much less … in American government at Harvard would surely be surprised to be told by the Berkman professor for …
Victor Clay
… Clay’ s twenty-first birthday, in 1984, came a knock at the door. “You want to be a deputy sheriff? Be downtown in … same vein, “community policing” to him doesn’t mean having officers take one course—it means changing a culture he perceives as outdated and ineffective. Harvard police officers are “part of this community,” he says. “And if we …
Issue: September-October 2022
The Standoff: Harvard’s Future in the Balance
… never wanted or expected this. University leaders had spent the spring in conversation with the Trump administration, … which threatened to withdraw federal funding if charges of antisemitism on campus were not addressed. But when a letter arrived on April 11 with a list of sweeping demands—effectively giving the government …
Issue: July-August 2025
1760s Extracurriculars
… colleges still in existence. Institutional histories cover their founding and leadership, but lack some of the gritty essence of students’ daily lives then. In Pedagogues and Protestors: …
Issue: July-August 2017
Landscape in a Tooth
… A howler monkey, Alouatta belzebul, of South America. The view is through the back of the skull. Photograph by Rosamond Wolff Purcell Who needs …
Martha Minow Appointed University Professor
… Carter professor of general jurisprudence Martha Minow, who served as dean … University Professor effective July 1. She assumes the chair held by historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich , who … Professorships are Harvard’s highest academic title; the recipients are recognized for superb scholarship …
Yesterday's News
… speaking on Commencement day afternoon, calls education the nation’s biggest industry and the one that yields the … columnist to suggest the classmates would get more food out of the president than he got votes out of them. 1949 The Harvard Law School Association council …
Issue: May-June 2009
Claudine Gay, President-Elect
… Claudine Gay —dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) since 2018—will … the wake of the pandemic. So, the University science enterprise will require lots of attention—as will the humanities …
Issue: March-April 2023
In Latin and Otherwise
… The history of Commencement speeches at Harvard stretches back for centuries, but the 273-word sentence in this year’s Latin Salutatory may … uttered at “these festival rites.” In his colossal string of words, Michael Kenneth Velchik ’12 purports to summarize …