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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 …
A Communal Campus?
… to explore improvements to Harvard’s Cambridge campus, with the aim of making better use of existing spaces to foster faculty-student interaction, …
Issue: July-August 2008
High Art
… Since its founding, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has commissioned artists to depict explorations of the upper atmosphere and of space. Norman Rockwell, Robert Rausch en berg, Andy …
Issue: November-December 2006
Inaugural Addresses Then and Now
… look at U.S. presidential inaugural addresses appeared in these pages in January-February 1977. Jill Lepore, Kemper professor of American history and chair of the history and literature …
Cambridge Scholars
… Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2018-2019 academic year. Farris Peale, of Washington and Quincy House, a social studies … Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College; Christian Schatz, of California and Adams House, an environmental science and …
Issue: July-August 2018
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
Living the Science Fiction Fantasy
… obvious now that science fiction was going to win out for Catherine Asaro , Ph.D. ’85. By the time she sat down in … Skolian Empire saga—about an interstellar civilization of warrior queens and biologically enhanced empaths locked … “At first, I made up stories about little girls going off into space with their cats. And there was a cat planet, …
Issue: January-February 2024
Extracurriculars
… Theater www.americanrepertorytheater.org 617-547-8300 Visit … 5 R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe, written and directed by D.W. Jacobs. Actor … • February 12 through March 12 Ajax. A new translation of Sophocles’s play reveals that modern-day grappling with …
Issue: January-February 2011
Tall Tales
… ’03—a onetime Harvard Magazine Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow—offered fix-it tips for "the repair-impaired." Cohen's second book— The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life on High, with a December 2008 release date—promises …
Better Together
… The New York Times described it as the “first rigorously … disorder.” I regard it as an exemplary demonstration of the unmatched potential of the Harvard medical ecosystem. … a so-called Massachusetts “supercluster” that comprises eight of top fourteen NIH-funded independent hospitals …
Issue: March-April 2016
Football: Harvard 34, Georgetown 3
… In gridiron lore, Notre Dame has the Four Horsemen. Fordham boasts the Seven Blocks of Granite. Now, Harvard has the Five Road Graders. From … Ivy teams now have played one league game. The biggest surprise so far: Yale. If you haven’t yet bought your tickets …
Campus Campaign
… campaign is in full swing, as eligible degree-holders mull their choices in the annual election of members of the Board of Overseers—unusually contested this year—and …
Issue: May-June 2016
Social-Club Saga
… As of May 6, a full year will have passed since Harvard … would sanction students enrolling this coming August and thereafter if they choose to join an unrecognized … - 16 ). Throughout this academic year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has been entangled in …
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Issue: May-June 2017
Walter E. Fernald
… In the spring of 1920, the inaugural dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, Henry Holmes, … had escaped his own institution and found, to his great surprise, that most were leading successful lives. Fernald …
Issue: March-April 2025
Harvard Olympic Athletes in London
… one varsity coach (plus one coaching alumnus) at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, which begin on Friday, … court for Harvard this fall and winter. Samyr Laine ’06, profiled during his college career in Harvard Magazine, will … races for the United States. One is Caryn Davies ’05, profiled in Harvard Magazine in 2003, a year after she won her …