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Arts Grants Put to Good Use
… Thanks to two grants that recognized the importance of the textual raw materials of art history, the Harvard Art Museums have cataloged …
Palace Indignities
… Alexis Gregory ’57 is a collector of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes, a member of the Harvard University Art Museums Collections Committee, …
Issue: January-February 2007
Jeremy R. Knowles, 1935-2008
… Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1991 until 2002, died Thursday. …
Yesterday's News
… 1923 Ninety-six women with degrees from the School of Education have been listed in the new Harvard … Bulletin points out, “is simply an unavoidable recognition of their standing…it does not invite them to attend meetings …
Issue: November-December 2008
Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise will Retire in June
… Nichols Family director of athletics Robert L. Scalise will retire at the end of this academic year, dean of the Faculty of Arts and …
Larry Wilmore Named College Class Day Speaker
… The Harvard College class of 2023 has chosen Emmy … address graduating seniors at its Class Day celebration on the afternoon of May 24, the day before University’s 372 nd Commencement. …
Design Engineering Debuts
… must coastal areas do to adapt to rising sea levels? Could the petroleum-based transportation system be shifted to natural-gas fueling—and how? The faculties of Harvard’s schools of design and engineering and applied … new program comes at a moment when “design thinking” has risen in prominence as an approach to solving …
Michael Ignatieff
… Unlike the world, the Kennedy School office of Michael Ignatieff, Ph.D. '76, is immaculately tidy. "It's …
Issue: March-April 2004
William James: Summers and Semesters
… illustrious a scholar as Harvard has ever produced, and one of the very few to shine brightly in two disciplines. In mid … ) convened an unusual conference, “In the Footsteps of William James,” for the centennial. For its first three …
Issue: November-December 2010
Football: Harvard 69, Columbia 0
… How did Harvard ring up 69 points on Saturday? Let us count the ways. Or should we? How much time do you have? Ten different players scored in a 69-0 rout of Columbia, the Crimson’s most lopsided win over an Ivy rival since a 77-0 trampling of Cornell in 1890. Colton Chapple, Harvard’s masterly …
Chapter & Verse
… John Mitchell requests the source and the rest (if any) of a ditty that begins … Andrew Webster seeks the author's name and the rest of a poem that begins "No matter what happens to man/ The …
Overseer and HAA Elected Director Slates
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee … has announced the 2025 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards; five to be …
Issue: March-April 2025
Where East Meets West
… Although the Harvard-Yenching Institute is housed on Divinity Avenue, at the eastern boundary of the University’s Cambridge campus, it’s not far from Harvard’s scholarly center. Nestled where a maze of science laboratories meet the Divinity School, flanked by …
Issue: January-February 2006
Harvard's "Wider Communities"
… The new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Yuki Moore Laurenti … to reach beyond the existing networks and formal structures of alumni organizations,” she explains, “and to the wider …
Issue: September-October 2005
Harvard Historians' Memoirs: A Chronological Sampler
… * Henry Adams, A.B. 1858, The Education of Henry Adams (1907/1918): circulated … Adams's death in 1918, The Education is a classic portrait of a historically sensitive author at odds with his times. * …
Issue: November-December 2004