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“Even Higher” Education
… in Cambridge and Allston became a magnet for mature professionals. It offered a unique advantage not available online: access to idea exchange and connections across the whole University, including multigenerational dialogue …
Issue: September-October 2011
Cryptic Puzzle: "Song"
… Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. … Debbie Levine – Acton, MA Dave Libby – Concord, MA Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico Brian McCrady – …
Dean Outlines FAS’s Financial Straits
… A standing-room-only crowd of professors filled the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) …
Parenting Passages
… “No matter how old you get, you’re still my baby.” How many of us have heard just such a line from a doting parent, or said it ourselves? But even though the underlying bond between parent and child may remain the … shared, and tastes discussed. “A lot of people can be surprised and delighted to find that they can be on more equal …
Issue: July-August 2007
Cambridge 02138
… to Readers We hope that you are safe and well—and that by the time this issue is posted online and reaches your … made significant progress in reducing the baleful effects of the coronavirus (due in part to the contributions of … to litigating for the rights of victims of abuse. I am surprised that the magazine gave a forum to ideas that have been …
Issue: July-August 2020
A Student in Tunis for Ramadan
… On June 27 , the city of Tunis was rushing to get ready for the month of Ramadan, which was supposed to begin that night. Shoppers …
President-elect Claudine Gay Announces Interim Deans
… -elect Claudine Gay was chosen in December to become the University’s next president, she inherited a search to … deanships. Divinity School dean David Hempton , School of Public Health dean Michelle Williams , and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences dean Frances Doyle had …
New Look
… The two buildings of the Center for Government and International Studies, … Photograph by Jim Harrison … The two buildings of the Center for Government and International Studies, …
Issue: November-December 2004
Poetry and Politics
… , two days before poet Tom Paulin was scheduled to deliver the annual Morris Gray Lecture, sponsored by the department of English and American language and literature, his reading … regret about the "widespread consternation that has arisen as a result of this invitation, which had been …
Issue: January-February 2003
How to Live?
… L ife happens. Decisions are made. Where do the two converge? How do you reconcile your "destiny" with … interested in finding out what their calling is, and most of the things they are drawn to involve other people," says … fellowship. And I got to stay home," she says, happily surprised at her disinclination to move. "I ride my bike to …
Issue: September-October 2002
Anti-Trump Protest Kicks Off Spring Semester
… During his first days in office, newly inaugurated President Donald J. Trump … signed an executive order as a first step to dismantling the Affordable Care Act. Yesterday, in their first few hours back on campus for the spring semester, a group of Harvard students rallied in the Yard despite snow, rain, …
Young Bernstein in Boston
… The leaders of a spring seminar and fall exhibit and … on Leonard Bernstein ’39 seek firsthand information about the musician in his hometown (into the early 1950s). … willing to be interviewed are asked to contact Mason professor of music Carol J. Oja (617-495-3791; coja@ …
Issue: March-April 2006
Arriflex and Amber
… At nightfall, the hyenas began to cry and laugh after we had eaten and were enjoying our recent successes in the art of nonfiction filmmaking. That journal entry, from July 1968 in Ethiopia, somehow epitomizes the creative career of Robert Gardner. Beginning in the 1950s, Gardner has made …
Issue: November-December 2006
An Historian Plays Ball
… by Bartek Malysa. Historical photographs courtesy of Associated Press. As the class settles in for the lecture, William E. Gienapp … it up for the class to see and there is a brief murmur of approval. ("The kids seem to enjoy it," he will explain …
Conceiving a Curriculum
… studied fledgling ventures. That tradition today influences the broader curriculum, too. Professor Myles L. Mace introduced an elective "Management of … become involved in founding or running their own enterprises a decade or two after graduation, following experience …