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Chapter & Verse
… story about a destitute family who own a Stradivarius. When the son tries to sell the violin, the pawnbroker tells him, … Constance Martin asks for the author, title, and/or origin of a song containing the lines, “You are my Rose of Mexico,/ The one I loved so long ago….” They come from a …
Issue: September-October 2009
Lawsuit Alleges Harvard Mishandled Harassment Complaints
… Hundreds of students joined a campus demonstration Monday afternoon in support of three graduate students who recently filed suit against the University, claiming Harvard downplayed or ignored their …
Climate Change Heats Up
… The University will sponsor a panel discussion on climate … in an e-mail to the community yesterday. Given the roster of participants, the event appears to have been assembled over a considerable period of time—but it is scheduled to take place during Harvard …
Preview: Ask a Harvard Professor, Season Three
… great seasons , we’re delighted to bring you season three of Ask a Harvard Professor , starting this Monday, October 19 . Each week, our editors will interview some of the world’s most prominent scholars, discussing e verything …
Dalai Lama to Speak at Harvard
… His Holiness the Dalai Lama will give a public address at Harvard on April 30, the Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Divinity School jointly … a ticket lottery, which closes April 15 at 5 p.m. ) As part of the same trip, the Dalai Lama will speak at Gillette …
Sargent’s Other Sides
… Portraitist of the possessors of new money and old, friend and traveling companion of his … patron Isabella Stewart Gardner, John Singer Sargent seemed the embodiment of a certain kind of establishment artist, …
Issue: November-December 2022
Lights! Microscopes! Action!
… biologists to use light to image biological structures at the molecular level, within living cells and … or chemically fixing them first. Below are some examples of this new technology at work, as demonstrated by video clips from the laboratories of several Harvard researchers. To learn more about how …
Issue: May-June 2008
Click and Ka-ching
… executives, art directors, and socialites flocked to the gallery of New York City’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza in September 1934 to view an exhibition of 250 photographic prints by 50 top artistic and commercial …
Issue: July-August 2010
Pinned in Memory
… When the nazis occupied Hungary and began deporting the country’s … Now, through family objects and memories, the Dillon professor of the civilization of France and professor of comparative …
Issue: May-June 2023
Neighborhood Favorite
… Once EVOO , the space that now holds Bergamot is a spacious square room … caramel-colored walls, an intimate bar, and a curvy red sofa near the door for those waiting to eat. The ever-changing menu offers lively, unfussy food (save the elaborate desserts) …
Issue: March-April 2013
Brevia
… Nobel Honorands Furer professor of economics Oliver Hart shared the prize in economic sciences with MIT’s Bengt Holmström … contract cannot possibly predict every scenario that might arise between an employer and an employee, or a patient and …
Issue: January-February 2017
Commemorating 9/11
… Modern American life has few protocols to follow for the observance of a disaster, and even fewer that people reliably hold in … Hall, for example, or Memorial Church, both of which bear memory in their very names. But as the bells …
Commencement Confetti: Davóne Tines
… Special Song—and Singer Absent the regular Faust-era artist/entertainer honorand, there was … from the wings to deliver “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (often considered the “Black National Anthem”) in tribute. … citation (page 16). Better to Receive? Before the work of conferring thousands of degrees, President Lawrence S. …
Issue: July-August 2019
Aloian Award Winners
… Each May, the HAA selects two rising seniors to receive the David and … have shown solid leadership in contributing to the quality of life in the Houses, traits embodied by the Aloians, who served as masters of Quincy House from 1981 to 1986. David Aloian ’49 was also …
Issue: November-December 2010
Exit Gray, Enter Keohane
… Hanna Holborn Gray Nannerl O. Keohane Courtesy of Hanna Holborn Gray Courtesy of Duke University Corporation member Hanna Holborn Gray, Ph.D. '57, will step down from the President and Fellows of Harvard College (as the …
Issue: January-February 2005