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Harvard Appoints New Committee to Review Social Policy
… Following the release yesterday of the report of the committee charged with recommending how to implement …
Theatrical Chiaroscuro
… In 1970, the British theatrical photographer Angus McBean (1904-90) sold Harvard his oeuvre: a collection of 40,000 glass-plate negatives, weighing eight tons, that has become the most-requested archive of visual material in the Harvard Theatre Collection (part …
Issue: March-April 2010
Cryptic Puzzle: “Diversifying”
… SOLVE THE MOST recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. … – Vienna, VA Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD …
John Knowles Paine
… Harvard's first professor of music was born in Portland, Maine, where his father led the town band, owned the music store, and published …
Chapter & Verse
… Dennis De Witt inquires about the origin of the phrase “wretched excess.” He has found … in its true season.” William Benemann seeks the source of a motto tattooed on the arm of a Massachusetts sailor in …
Issue: January-February 2017
A Familiar Tale, Told With Style
… Those in search of summer beach reading might pick up The Romantics , a new novel by Galt Niederhoffer ’97. According to Janet Maslin of the New York Times , …
Literary Ambassador
… To assemble a collection of poems that capture the American experience yet are also accessible to children … create La poésie américaine , a new illustrated anthology of 19 American poems that range from the late seventeenth …
Issue: November-December 2005
Global Gains
… Photograph by Justin Ide/Harvard News Office Jorge I. Domínguez Harvard’s engagement with the world widened significantly during the fall term. New or enlarged programs of scholarship and study involving Brazil, Egypt, and South …
Issue: January-February 2008
Chapter & Verse
… Joel Bresler seeks early uses of "Drinking Gourd" by African Americans as a name for the Big Dipper. He writes that the song "Follow the Drinking … (Methuen, 1942) , an anthology by Cyril Alington, then dean of Durham Cathedral. The correct opening of this anti-Nazi …
Issue: March-April 2005
Best Friend Bests Chimp
… A chimpanzee enters a room where food is hidden in one of two opaque containers. A human gazes at the container that hides the food. Reaches for it with … Milo Photograph by Stu Rosner Dog owners may not be surprised to learn that nine of 11 dogs in the same situation …
Issue: March-April 2003
Gone Missing
… On June 18, 1903, on the occasion of Frederick Thayer's twenty-fifth reunion, his … in baseball," silvered for the occasion by the Boston firm of Bigelow, Kennard Co. The mask eventually came into the …
Issue: July-August 2004
FAS Dean is Ill; Curriculum Review Continues
… The president urged the faculty to address the business at hand so all present could “give a good account of ourselves” when Knowles was able to resume his duties... Faculty of Arts and Sciences interim dean Jeremy R. Knowles was …
Getting Centered
… Almost unnoticed , much of the University's scholarly work has migrated from departments and individual professors' offices to dozens—perhaps hundreds—of …
Issue: September-October 2002
Endowment Managers' Compensation Reported
… Management Company (HMC) has issued its annual report on the compensation of its most highly paid in-house investment professionals. The news, often the subject of close scrutiny, …
Rapid Tests, in Time for Fall Surge
… Last week, the first rapid, inexpensive, coronavirus tests were finally … are infectious, in order to prevent asymptomatic spread of SARS CoV-2. The news was welcomed in particular by assistant professor of epidemiology Michael J. Mina, an immunologist who …