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Valedictory Mixtape
… For his last Commencement as the dean of the Graduate School of Education , James Ryan presented a mixtape, not a …
Chapter & Verse
… F. Markoe Rivinus requests the title and the other words of a song he heard in the late … Harry Goldgar asks if someone can supply the identity of the “Institute” referred to in, and a specific origin …
Issue: November-December 2005
"Harry Potter" Author to Speak at Commencement
… year's Commencement speaker will be J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, the University … young people to experience the excitement and the sheer joy of reading." Global sales of Rowling's seven novels, …
I Cook, Therefore I Am?
… The "Meeting the Minds" column in today's Boston Globe introduces Moore professor of biological anthropology Richard Wrangham and explores the …
Brown University President Simmons to Retire
… Ruth J. Simmons , Ph.D. ’73, LL.D. ’02, president of Brown University since July 2001, announced today that she would step down at the end of the current academic year (although she has … the great-great-granddaughter of slaves, and that she had risen to the presidency of Smith College before her …
Harvard Library Leaders Discuss Reorganization, New Portal
… A few days after the quiet debut of a new online portal for the Harvard … to discuss the milestones achieved in the development of the new, consolidated organization of the Harvard Library …
Radcliffe Celebrates 25
… When Mary Ingraham Bunting-Smith became president of Radcliffe College in 1960, she sought to combat what she called “a national climate of unexpectation” surrounding women’s education. As part of that mission, she created the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, which …
Harvard Study: EPA’s Fine-Particle Pollution Standards May Be Too Loose
… The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s standards for … recent study by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study, led by professor of environmental epidemiology Joel Schwartz, found …
Crimson, White, and Blue
… perhaps no history is more visibly honored than that of Harvard's warriors. Since the earliest days of the United States, brave Harvard students and alumni have …
Issue: November-December 2002
New “Anything Goes” with Alumni Roles
… A revival of the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes in New York, reviewed by Ben Brantley in the New York Times, draws on the talents of several Harvard-educated theater types. Brantley takes …
Canine Mouthpiece
… you were recuperating in a hospital, who would you want in the bed next to you, excluding relatives? A [Cricket]: … Or other people. Any people. A [Watson]: I’d want Susan [Hoffman]. I like to lie on the bed with her, but I don’t … Yellow Lab,” I howl. I’m a helluva blues singer. [Jonathan Hoffman ’69 has recently released his third CD, For Dog …
Issue: May-June 2005
Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2018
Hertzberg, Marx, Wood Score Award Nominations
… The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) announced the finalists for the 2009 National Magazine Awards this … to Harvard Magazine readers. Patricia Marx ’75 was profiled in our March-April 2008 issue, and ASME also took …
Bittersweet Victory
… In the sea of commentaries on the meaning of Barack Obama’s victory, one by Roger Angell …
Harvard Hubs
… Harvesting two tangible fruits of The Harvard Campaign, the University formally inaugurated … September 20 and October 1, respectively. The lower levels of the Smith Center (the remade Holyoke Center) now feature …
Issue: November-December 2018