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A College Report Card
… Much about the College's appearance --undergraduate enrollment, the residential Houses--remains constant. But a sense of underlying vibrancy and significant change emerges in the … shifting academic interests, and an undergraduate enterprise pushing the outer limits of the College's physical …
"Veritas"
… President Lawrence H. Summers took stock of the ever wetter, colder weather as the Commencement … address, on the search for truth within a university enterprise like Harvard. But given the prevailing "humiditas" and …
Issue: July-August 2002
Documentarian
… Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1970s and ’80s, Michele Forman ’93 loved visual art and … with a “note in the margin that this could be a movie,” and offered her a summer internship. After graduation, she … and pre-interviews for the film “changed the trajectory of my career,” she says. “I knew that I wanted to come back …
Issue: March-April 2019
Harvard Calendar
… THEATER. At the Loeb Drama Center, the American Repertory Theatre presents The Children of Herakles , by Euripides, from January 4 to 25, in a new … Harvard Film Archive (January 17-26) includes screenings of Grill Point (Germany); Irreversible (France); Fleurs de …
Issue: January-February 2003
Jens Meierhenrich
… A very long bookshelf in Jens Meierhenrich’s Harvard office holds a complete transcript of the Nuremberg trial of major war criminals, in 42 volumes. …
Issue: July-August 2006
Unhealthy Hospitals
… Within the tranquility of Harvard Yard, it is difficult to imagine … facilities seem a striking anomaly. Obvious questions arise. How widespread are the problems of the nation's … and their major clinical facilities? How have the problems arisen? Why should they matter to anyone other than the …
Exiting Iraq
… I have chosen to discuss Iraq in part because there are over 150,000 Americans serving there in the military, as well as U.S. civilians: government officials and supporting contractors. Every week between one and two dozen of these individuals are killed or gravely injured, and our …
Issue: September-October 2005
Black Students Speak
… told listeners Tuesday evening during an online discussion of his newest book, School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness . A professor at Harvard’s Graduate …
Baccalaureate Address 2008
… President Drew Gilpin Faust's speech at the Baccalaureate service for the Harvard College class of 2008 on June 3. In the curious custom of this venerable institution, I find myself standing before …
Soledad O’Brien: Don’t Take Advice
… 2013 Harvard Class Day speaker Soledad O’Brien ’88 about the best advice she ever received, she recalled what her … true: Most people are idiots, she said, because instead of building you up, they will tell you why you will fail. … on the life you should lead,” O’Brien told the audience of seniors, families, and friends gathered in Tercentenary …
Diversity and Diminishing Tax Revenues
… that twentieth-century U.S. suburbs emerged during the exodus of whites from cities, as millions of African Americans from the South moved north and west in …
Issue: November-December 2018
Moving Microbial Science Forward
… Today, operating out of borrowed space in Harvard’s Center for the Environment, the Microbial Sciences Initiative ( … who typically bridge two labs in different departments, often across schools; sponsors 12 undergraduate summer …
Issue: November-December 2007
“Alternative” Placebos
… Doctors once kept jars full of sugar pills, in various colors, in their offices. “Take two of these and call me in the morning,” …
Issue: September-October 2006
It’s a Small World
… Likely distracted by the American Revolution, John Hancock, A.B. 1754, … position until 1807, a stabilizing force in a time of upheaval. In 1914, Francis Storer Eaton donated some of his great-grandfather’s possessions to the University. …
Issue: September-October 2019
Sam Altman’s Vision for the Future
… “I really like things that, if they work, really matter—even if they don’t have a super high chance of working,” Sam Altman, cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, told a crowd of students who …