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Loeb Classical Library 1.0
… When James Loeb designed his soon-to-be-launched series of Greek and Roman texts at the turn of the twentieth century, he envisioned the production of …
Issue: September-October 2014
“Armenian creativity, culture, and survival”
… In 1207 an elderly scribe in the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia completed the Garabed … the manuscript was passed down through that family lineage of priests, serving as a sacred object, according to the …
Issue: January-February 2022
Cambridge 02138
… Multimedia Matters “ Professor Video ,” by Craig Lambert ( November-December 2009, … here. When she was in public school, her parents fought the history teacher who relied on Hollywood movies. Now she … and potentially misleading. This conflict does not arise when we draw the fundamental principles on the board …
Issue: January-February 2010
A "Sponge" for Light
… Sometimes the most exciting scientific discoveries are made almost by accident. Researchers in the laboratory of Eric Mazur, McKay professor of applied physics and professor of physics, had …
Issue: May-June 2002
Cambridge 02138
… FAITH AND UNBELIEF I am surprised that Katherine Dunn (“ Faculty Faith ,” July-August, page 15) does not refer to the main historical source of the higher percentage of “nonbelievers” among faculty …
Issue: September-October 2007
Yesterday’s News
… 1913 Mrs. George D. Widener lays the cornerstone of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library … undergraduates to live in apartment houses. 1938 Members of the Harvard Young Communist League, promoting a peace …
Issue: May-June 2013
Joyful Noises
… hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Anniversaries of moment: Tops on the list is the birthday of John Harvard, beneficent man of mystery, who was baptized …
Issue: November-December 2007
Curriculum Queries
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) devoted much of its last three regular spring business meetings to reports on the undergraduate curriculum. Formal legislation on a new …
Issue: July-August 2005
Narrowing School Achievement Gaps
… Education experts and political leaders from across the country gathered at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE) on Tuesday for the first convening of a new initiative that seeks to combat inequality in …
A Verdant Cultural Retreat
… Before stepping through the Gothic Revival gates of Forest Hills Cemetery, tour … bothering you, and leave them out here.” The 275 acres of towering trees, winding paths, sculptures, and scenic …
Issue: March-April 2022
Cambridge 02138
… Base of the Pyramid Thank you for the important article about impact … a profit and solving a pervasive problem. Other enterprises provide low-cost solar-powered light and power … about to brand a patient with a dollar sign, sure surprised this alum who regularly wears a straw hat in the sunny …
Issue: November-December 2015
Hillary Clinton Receives Radcliffe Medal
… deter some 2,000 Radcliffe alumnae and affiliates from gathering for today’s presentation of the 2018 Radcliffe Medal to Hillary Rodman Clinton. The … on society.” In introductory remarks, Lizabeth Cohen, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, confessed: …
Talented Eccentrics
… to create works that were both useful and beautiful—the two virtues went together. In 1984, Steven Levy’s book Hackers thrillingly documented this heroic age of computing. The last of the true hackers, in Levy’s term, is Richard Stallman …
Issue: March-April 2007
Institutional, International
… Undergraduates are traveling more these days because, well, they are traveling more. It’s more … families, says Nancy Saunders, who as associate director of Harvard’s Office of Career Services (OCS) counsels … years, the number of undergraduates studying abroad has risen more than 600 percent, with the vast majority of the …
Issue: November-December 2009
Graduate Students Vote to Unionize
… 1,931-1,523 to form a labor union, per a count taken at the regional National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Boston today. The outcome means that thousands of Harvard graduate and undergraduate students engaged in … Workers (HGSU-UAW), unless Harvard challenges the results of the election. The election took place April 18 and 19 at …