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349th: A Lovefest
… Commencement, but it descended in Biblical volume on the Phi Beta Kappa and baccalaureate processions two days … nor'easter dumped 4.76 inches and brought raw cold. Members of the twenty-fifth reunion class were grateful for the … vests provided them. The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister in the …
Interim Successor Named for Ailing FAS Dean
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) interim dean Jeremy R. … succeeded on an acting basis by David R. Pilbeam, Ford professor of human evolution. Pilbeam served on the faculty’s Task Force on General Education, whose …
Maxine Kumin
… ’46, A.M. ’48, a Bunting Institute Fellow in 1963, became the eleventh recipient of the Harvard Arts Medal. Kumin has published 15 volumes of poetry, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Up Country: …
Issue: July-August 2005
Songs with “Open Eyes”
… “I like broad canvases—probably too broad most of the time,” says theater composer Michael Friedman ’97. “But … not ambitious enough.” Friedman isn’t likely to be accused of insufficient ambition. This August, a new version of …
Issue: November-December 2013
Women's Center
… At the end of a year that has seen various plans for the College (including the curricular review) mark time or … women’s center. Plans for a renovated space in the basement of Canaday Hall have already been drawn up, and a director …
Issue: May-June 2006
Michael Pollan’s Crooked Writing Path
… Whether he is writing a book on big farming and the way … as a writer has been anything but traditional. “The path of someone’s career only appears in retrospect. I really didn’t know where I was going. The path of a writer isn’t like the path of a doctor or a lawyer—it’s …
Lapeliana
… hundred and ninety-nine buttons, pins, badges, and ribbons, the cinders of old strife, lie at Houghton Library in three linear feet of boxes containing the Frederick W.C. Lieder political …
Issue: November-December 2004
Surgeon Atul Gawande Named Harvard Alumni Day Speaker
… Atul Gawande, M.D. ’95, M.P.H. ’99, former professor of health policy and management at Harvard’s T.H. Chan … professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, will be the speaker at Harvard’s annual celebration of the global …
Alan Dershowitz's Perfect World
… "Paint a picture of your ideal world," Debra Trione asked 50 "of the most powerful and influential leaders in America." A …
Issue: January-February 2003
Liquidity and Leverage
… In one sense , the projected 30 percent decline in the value of the … academic operations. Because the University made use of $1.4 billion in funds from the endowment during the …
Issue: July-August 2009
N. Gregory Mankiw
… by Stu Rosner N. Gregory Mankiw After two years as chair of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), Beren professor of economics …
Issue: March-April 2007
Harvard@Home: Four New Programs
… Harvard@Home, the University-wide initiative for putting learning on-line, … has introduced several new programs. They are: "The Process of Curricular Review." Harvard College dean Benedict H. Gross describes the College's first comprehensive review of the undergraduate curriculum in nearly three decades, …
Issue: March-April 2004
Fusion Fantasy
… There’s a kind of novel that comes with a full-color map and list of dramatis personae . Like the overture to an opera, this tells the audience what …
Issue: November-December 2016
Gravity's Riddle
… Ever since the fabled apple fell before Isaac Newton, gravity has posed … and weak forces that bind atomic nuclei together, it is one of the four fundamental forces of physics. Gravity behaves … the most mysterious." In physics, deep problems often arise from simple questions, like this one: Why is gravity so …
Issue: May-June 2003
English Evolves--and Reverts
… At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting on April 8, Gurney professor of English literature and professor of comparative literature James Engell, speaking on behalf of the department he chairs, moved that it shed its current …
Issue: July-August 2008