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Signs of the Times
… During their diaspora while their permanent digs are renovated this year, Winthrop House residents inhabiting one of the swing spaces found their interim home dubbed “The … walks through campus. For instance, the Graduate School of Design café, Chauhaus, nods to history, too: a cheeky …
Issue: January-February 2017
Whither the Harvard Endowment?
… The University’s endowment—its largest revenue source by far— was valued at $37.6 billion as of June 30, 2015 (the end of that fiscal year, and the most … significantly to the 11.3 percent ($3.7 billion) rise in the endowment’s value for the year. The Outlook …
Down by the River
… State-of-the-art one-bedroom condominiums within walking distance of … Avenue in Allston, where graduate-student housing will rise in 2003, construction of a 650-car underground garage … the purchase at a planning board meeting the same day, surprised local residents expressed shock and dismay that the …
Issue: March-April 2002
Tom Hanks: Truth, Justice, and the American Way
… As prepared for delivery. Thank you. On behalf of all of us who have studied for two years at Chabot … State University, Sacramento, and forty-five years at the School of Hard Knocks, earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree … of mighty rivers, if such a thing should be done and make machines that bend steel as easily as using our bare hands. …
The Social Life of Memory
… Leading a healthy social life depends on the ability to predict the behavior of others accurately. Most people expect a loud, aggressive … a passive, quiet loner to shy away from confrontation. More often than not, that’s correct. Yet exactly how the brain …
Issue: July-August 2013
A Language Out of Nothing
… For the first time in more than two decades, Harvard began … to NSL’s emergence might be pidgins and creoles. Pidgins arise in situations of cross-cultural contact, like trade or …
Issue: May-June 2017
A Cathedral of Sweat
… Moments after Harvard lost to Yale 97-85 in the Ivy League tournament championship, Stemberg coach Tommy … pawmarks were everywhere: the walls adorned with portraits of famous alumni (including baseball player George H.W. … rivalry. There was even Yale-branded bottled water in front of the coach and point guard Bryce Aiken ’20, who looked …
Issue: May-June 2019
The Diverse “Symphony of Harvard”
… President Drew Faust compared the Harvard community to a symphony orchestra—beautiful in … an annual presidential tradition that marks the first day of classes. She began by cataloging the diversity of the … the choir’s singing of the day’s anthem (“Awake My Heart; Arise My Tongue”). The hymn, which the congregation sang …
A Course for the Commercial Space Age
… leaps for mankind, Harvard Business School is making a leap of its own. Last week, the school launched its first course devoted to outer space, … “Space: Public and Commercial Economics,” led by Elbling professor of business administration Matthew C. Weinzierl. To …
Off the Shelf
… canvas), by G. Dell Bridgeman Images Summer brings thoughts of seasides and sailing. For landlubbers, some beach reading. Barons of the Sea, by Steven Ujifusa ’01 (Simon & Schuster, $29.99), … age of technological innovation, sharp competition, and the rise of new fortunes: the nineteenth-century scrum to build …
Issue: July-August 2018
The Pump Overflows
… delving into Sanskrit, Avestan, Hittite, Old Irish, and the other early languages of the Indo-European family. It was an unusual turn for an … his Ph.D. in linguistics in 1959 and, after an accelerated rise through the junior ranks, found himself, at the age of …
Issue: May-June 2015
“Bodies of Knowledge”
… The title page of Andreas Vesalius’s monumental 1543 anatomy textbook, De humani corporis fabrica ( On the Fabric of the Human Body ), depicts a public dissection. In an …
"The rule of law and foreign law in our Supreme Court"
… Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at the New York University School of Law explores the Bill of Rights in the context of the …
The Science of Scarcity
… Toward the end of World War II, while thousands of Europeans were dying of hunger, 36 men at the University … available for everything else. Such problems simply don’t arise for the rich. To rule out other factors, the …
Issue: May-June 2015
The Business of Turning 375
… celebrate Harvard’s 375 th birthday on October 14. Members of the HBS community gathered to decorate themselves with … flair. In 2008, there was a neoclassical replica cake of the iconic Baker Library; this year, when HBS affiliates …