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Boosting Teacher Training
… Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) —renowned for research spanning … teachers for classroom careers. As it prepares to welcome the inaugural cohort of Teaching and Teacher Leadership (TTL) master’s degree …
Vigorous Outdoor Escapes
… The last stretch of arête—the rocky ridge leading to the 5,268-foot summit of Mount Katahdin in northern Maine—is called the Knife … in. Outdoor sports such as rock climbing have clearly risen in popularity, according to Sam Brotherton ’12, vice …
Issue: March-April 2012
Dunster House First to Be Fully Renovated
… Harvard announced today that Dunster will become the first of its 12 undergraduate Houses to be fully renewed … alone are expected to cost more than $1 billion . Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith and Harvard …
High-Tech Art Sleuthing
… Call them art detectives. Using scientific methods, the … involves the self-taught American artist James Castle. Profoundly deaf, perhaps autistic, he never learned to speak … creating compelling, intimate works, including hundreds of drawings using only woodstove-soot mixed with his own …
Issue: September-October 2011
Green Gauge
… The ever-useful Harvard University Fact Book (published annually by the Office of Budgets, Financial Planning, and Institutional Research, …
Issue: November-December 2007
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors Announced
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected …
When to Arrest Protesters
… On the evening of April 30, 2024, the New York Police … protesters occupied the building. In Cambridge, McCormack professor of citizenship and self-government Archon Fung was … with these very deep divisions, and I don’t think we’ve risen to that occasion yet.” Aside from police intervention, …
Distant Planets
… In the last five years, the idea of finding planets orbiting … 1998, page 16). But until last fall, these "discoveries" of extrasolar planets were all based on indirect detection: …
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 …
A Moral Conscience for Economics
… Much of the public is interested in fixing America’s gaping level of wealth inequality, but few people feel responsible for … of tools you learn in Ec 10. And the people who were surprised were the ones who did not take Ec 10,” he jokes. …
Issue: September-October 2016
President Faust, Before Harvard
… Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, The Chronicle of Higher Education —a leading source of news … reprinting vintage cover stories. The June 24 issue reprised the July 6, 1994, edition, on which “Penn’s Drew …
Ice Cream and Vinegar
… Seventeen authors, several of them Harvardians, reread a book or a poem (or the Sgt. … impressed them in their youths and write about how it—of course, they—have changed. Rereadings (Farrar, …
Issue: September-October 2005
Jolly Tippler, Good Dog
… Mary Saunders , curator of the Harvard Club of New York, has sent Primus this dispatch: “For many years …
Issue: May-June 2016
Truth, in Crisis
… Class Day speeches are often a time for congratulations and applause. Messages are … ’94, did not hold back during his time in Tercentenary Theatre, delivering an analysis on the current state of affairs, a history lesson, and a call to action in under …
Chapter & Verse
… James Wallace seeks to learn the origin of, and find more verses of, parody lyrics for “Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1,” …
Issue: March-April 2006