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Conservative Curation
… Amid the triumphant fanfare of the Harvard Tercentenary … women in university life. Tucked into a second-floor room of Byerly Hall, Radcliffe’s newly inaugurated science … not claim to be genius.” The number of women in science had risen dramatically during the early decades of the twentieth …
Issue: January-February 2021
Faculty Retirement Incentives Unveiled
… details December 4, 2009. Several Harvard schools, led by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), today announced retirement … faculty members. Some 180 individuals University-wide, out of a recent census of 1,507 full, associate, and assistant …
Harvard Football: 2023 Season Preview
… After the customary 42-week interlude, Harvard football kicks off its 149th season on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Stadium when the Crimson faces the University of St. Thomas from St. Paul, Minnesota . The game will be …
“If Your Dreams Do Not Scare You, They Are Not Big Enough”
… In offering advice to the 2011 graduates, principal Commencement speaker Ellen … experience—and that experience is notable: in four decades of involvement in Liberian politics, she has endured exile, imprisonment (twice), and the threat of execution. The simple fact that there had …
Chapter & Verse
… John Glismann would like to learn the source of "Here's to the man who'll take my place when … while working for his administration, I got my first tip-off that LBJ was not going to run again when he made a …
Issue: January-February 2004
Federal NLRB Rejects Harvard’s Appeal in Grad-Student Union Case
… The federal National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today … year, the regional NLRB had ruled to invalidate the results of Harvard’s November 2016 graduate-student union election … arguing that the University did not provide a complete list of eligible voters prior to the election, which created …
There’s (Still) No Gay Gene
… There is no one gene for being gay, and though genes seem to … and anything but deterministic. That’s the conclusion of a paper by an international team of researchers, co-led by Benjamin Neale of the Broad …
New Baseball Coach
… Harvard has appointed Bill Decker, head coach of baseball at Trinity College for the past 22 years, as its new baseball coach, director of athletics Robert Scalise announced on September 25. …
Cambridge 02138
… WATER AND OIL The quote from Azzam Alwash, director of the Eden Again … want to exchange water for oil." I traveled through much of the Harran plain last year and saw thousands of acres of …
Issue: March-April 2005
Activist Administrator
… The executive vice president’s website defines the post, neutrally, as the University’s “principal ranking officer…on business and organizational matters.” But Katie … a five-year capital plan—“something that most major enterprises do”—so the Corporation can have a clear view of …
Issue: September-October 2010
Transitions
… certainly knows how to mark significant milestones. At the end of this academic year, the University had suitable reasons … The celebratory hoopla for the beyond-expectations success of the University Campaign consumed the weekend of May 12 …
Accounting for a Good Life
… A plausible account of what makes someone’s life better will be a “substantive good” account: a claim or set of claims about what things are good in themselves, not good because they are desired. Hedonism is …
Issue: September-October 2011
War, and Women
… In November 1945, the International Military Tribunal began its prosecution of Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg, Germany. Nuremberg and subsequent trials, in which dozens of party leaders, doctors, judges, and generals were …
Issue: January-February 2006
Largiantur Donatores
… The University had received $493 million in donations through May 31 of the fiscal year, according to University Treasurer James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70, who gave an accounting of class gifts at the HAA’s annual meeting on the afternoon …
Issue: July-August 2005
Civil Soldiers
… wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." The athletic fields of Harvard lie near the Charles River in Allston on land … Field." "Few people know the Civil War significance of the name," writes Helen Hannon in Blue & Gray Magazine. …
Issue: May-June 2002