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Harvard Appoints New Endowment President and CEO
… Management Company (HMC) reported endowment returns for the fiscal year ended last June 30, the appointment of its new president and CEO, Stephen Blyth, Ph.D. ’92, was … the unusual nature of a university-owned investment enterprise subject to such disclosure.) Blyth has also been a …
Our Memes, Ourselves
… I stare at a stock photo on my Facebook feed of a blond woman leaning over an infant, both caught in a delighted gaze. The generic rendering of motherly bliss has been repurposed into a two-panel …
Issue: July-August 2017
Speak, Memory
… Ongoingness: The End of a Diary is a memoir that makes only one … it, Sarah Manguso ’96, a poet and contributor to Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, and The Paris Review, reflects on her oldest …
Issue: March-April 2015
Mario Vargas Llosa Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
… Mario Vargas Llosa , the acclaimed Peruvian novelist and writer, was awarded the … Harvard recognized Llosa—who served as a visiting professor of Latin American studies during the 1992-1993 academic …
What's Past Is Prologue
… Sage Stossel ’93, executive editor of The Atlantic Online, regularly contributes editorial … the Boston Globe. She prepared this narrative [ see PDF ] of Harvard’s June festivities after attending the muddy …
Issue: May-June 2007
Hiram Hunn Awards
… Seven alumni are to receive the Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, at a ceremony in Cambridge …
Issue: September-October 2013
Press Women
… are impossible,” says Ellen Faran ’73, M.B.A. ’81, “and there’s nothing more impossible than university-press publishing.” As director of MIT Press , she and editorial director Gita Manaktala ’87 … want to do that well, and at reasonable prices.” The nonprofit press publishes leading-edge, highly specialized …
Issue: November-December 2012
Youthful Dreams
… The day Harvard sent out its admission decisions, I … comprehending the e-mail that welcomed me into the class of 2009, I broke into fat and sloppy tears. It’s hard to … college-tour circuit. The tour moments that I enjoy most arise from the simplest of questions. “Why did you choose …
Issue: November-December 2008
Taking Shape
… A (snowless) late-winter aerial view of the Fogg Art Museum reconstruction shows a huge crane—put in … it is now scheduled for fall 2014. … An aerial view of the Fogg art Museum reconstruction. … 34701 … Update on …
Issue: May-June 2012
Brevia
… Year Book Publications U.S. Senators seeking a paper trail of the career and views of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. ’76, J.D. ’79, …
Issue: September-October 2005
A Baton with Sting
… into her career as a conductor, Sarah Hicks ’93 had “the first of two turning points.” She was conducting a Minnesota … point came with her second pops show, conducting the music of singer/pianist Ben Folds, who was amazed that Hicks was …
Issue: July-August 2011
Musick Makers
… Eighty-odd musical instruments, most of them elderly, reside in a climate-controlled room in the … A cosmopolitan lot, they range from an Italian archlute of the sixteenth or seventeenth century, to a graduated set …
Frances Glessner Lee
… trivial details can reveal transgressive acts. Consider the card Frances Glessner Lee carried in her later years, … both her married name and her honorary title—captain of the New Hampshire State Police. A hybrid of the calling card ubiquitous in the genteel society into …
Issue: September-October 2005
Down-Home Elegance
… The incongruous pleasure of No. 9 Park lies in its homey … cuisine is dished out in the relaxed but decorous environs of a Beacon Hill bistro. The chic 1940s Milan-inspired décor …
Harvard’s Sexual-Assault Problem
… On September 21 , Harvard released the results of a sexual-conduct survey conducted among its … for nonconsensual touching are included, that figure rises to 31.2 percent. Consumption of alcohol—by the …
Issue: November-December 2015