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Cataloging Library Needs
… Calling for a new library for the sciences and for initiatives by the Harvard College … on-line access to all collections, the library committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has issued a … collections in general. By 1998 the 11 libraries that comprise HCL had acquired about 8.3 million volumes. Space …
Harvey Mansfield’s Last Class
… Until almost the end, it felt like any normal day in Harvey C. … Mansfield’s Government 1026 course, “The Political Science of American Democracy.” Students filed into a Sever Hall … abuse inherent in majoritarian democracy (“this is a surprise, isn’t it?”), which both ancient Greek and early …
Overseer and Harvard Alumni Association Director Elections
… can vote for Harvard Overseers and elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. Ballots will be … back in Cambridge by noon on May 18 to be counted. Results of the election will be announced at the HAA’s annual meeting on May 24, on the afternoon of Commencement day. All Harvard degree- holders, except …
A Lab for Contemporary Classical Music
… gracefully draws a violin bow vertically along the edge of a Himalayan singing bowl, producing a sound … 2005 composition “ …zu Staub… ” (“to dust”) uses a number of uncommon instruments and objects, including this singing …
Harvard Professor Scott Kominers on NFTs and Brands
… In the fifteenth century, Gutenberg’s press revolutionized the process of distributing written text. Today, we have non-fungible … NFTs have the ability to fundamentally change the spread of information. Yet, while the printing press created …
Harvard Discloses Leaders’ Annual Compensation
… The University today released its tax return for nonprofit … the compensation paid to the president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company (HMC, which is …
Football 2019: Yale 50, Harvard 43
… this one makes up for ’68. Saturday’s Harvard-Yale game at the Yale Bowl was an instant classic, so spectacular and … protest that delayed the action for the better part of an hour . Certainly the contest is in the discussion for the greatest of the 136 Games played. When it was over, in the gloaming …
Filial Fiction
… trying to put things into words.” Decades later, her father, poet Richard Wilbur, offered a paternal perspective on Ellen’s fledgling … from me—she’s a natural writer. She has a perfect sense of narrative structure that I don’t have at all; it amazes …
Issue: November-December 2008
Harvard Faculty Club Sued by Waitstaff
… Even as news broke that the Harvard Club of Boston had settled a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of its waitstaff for $4 million, came the news that a nearly …
Brevia
… Departure Alan A. Altshuler Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Alan A. Altshuler , dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design since February 2005 …
Issue: January-February 2007
A New Portal for Allston
… At the inauguration of the new building of the Harvard-Allston Education Portal …
Honoris Causa
… degrees at Harvard's 351st Commencement, a constellation of luminaries larger than in any year since 1993, when Julia Child, Colin Powell, and 12 others became honorary alumni. In order of presentation, this year's honorands were: Lee Photo by …
Issue: July-August 2002
Chapter & Verse
… Winthrop Drake Thies seeks the legal citation for a British Admiralty case "which supported the necessity of the foreign tribunal having had personal — or at … to be respected by asking rhetorically: 'Shall the writs of Antigua bind the whole world?'" Virginia Wetherbee …
Issue: July-August 2004
Marijuana Advocate
… “ I was not one of the ’60s radicals,” says Dale Gieringer ’68 of his time at Harvard. “I was pretty libertarian and sort …
Issue: May-June 2011
Harvard Management Company Reduces Staff 25 Percent
… Harvard Management Company (HMC) , which invests the University's endowment assets, is reducing its staffing. … mission is to preserve and enhance the financial assets of Harvard University over the long term in support of the University's academic programs, its students, and its …