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Red Books, Raw Gems
… your classmates, in a paragraph or two, what you would like them to know about your activities, interests, family life, … for publication in a typically red-covered book in advance of each reunion. Perhaps you can’t be bothered; perhaps you … was undeserved. ~William J. Barker ’37 Many alumni are surprised to learn that their submissions are edited at all. “It …
Issue: May-June 2007
Settling In, Sociably
… On Monday morning, July 2, those members of the Harvard community who weren’t taking a pre-holiday … different, and something significant, to our shared enterprise,” she continued. “We teach, we study, we discover, we …
Issue: September-October 2007
How a Young Alumni Movement Wants to Change Harvard’s Investment Policies
… Two members of the Harvard Forward slate , who are petitioning for places … for young alumni, but Harvard Forward’s slate this year comprises five candidates.] Toweh emphasized reaching out to …
Scaling Up Charity
… career in 1990 to co-found his own ad agency, targeting the high tech industry. Schell/Mullaney opened with Mullaney and one employee working out of his apartment; the partners were so successful that they … turns away most of its customers?” Fostering enterprise while correcting a relatively finite, physical problem …
Issue: September-October 2009
Venezuelan Delights
… Orinoco: A Latin Kitchen , one of the few Venezuelan restaurants in Greater Boston, offers carefully tended, bold food in a lively setting. …
Issue: July-August 2010
Double Duty
… When he stepped down as president of the Harvard Law School Association on Class Day, June 5, … Robert N. Shapiro '72, J.D. '78, completed a unique form of service to the University. He is the only person known to …
Issue: July-August 2002
New Social Entrepreneurs
… seniors are “definitely interested in making an impact on the world,” says Robin Mount, director of Harvard’s Office of Career Services. “They are poised to … step is a search for angel investors. “This is social enterprise,” Stenson points out. “The motivation is not a monetary …
Issue: January-February 2013
Football: Harvard 40, Cornell 3
… With four minutes and 54 seconds remaining in the first quarter this past Saturday at Schoellkopf Field in … that superiority lasted 17 seconds. On the ensuing kickoff, the Crimson’s Justice Shelton-Mosley ’19 caught the … the Ivy League. Cornell (which will win some games the rest of the way) dropped to 0-4, 0-2. The victory was the …
Life After Work
… "learning how to maintain self-respect while letting go of self-importance," writes Harvard professor of psychiatry George E. Vaillant '55, M.D. '59, in his book Aging Well. The much-touted "third age" can be frightening for many …
Issue: November-December 2002
Sommersemester
… It is week 3 of my Sommersemester at the Freie Universität in west Berlin and finally—finally—I am hitting my stride. “In The Good Person of Szechuan, Berthold Brecht has created what looks at first …
Issue: July-August 2005
Rebuilding Churches
… ’93 was deeply involved in public service—as a Big Brother and head of the Freshman Urban Program steering committee, among … have in the world.” Photograph by Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Tim McCarthy ’93 (above), Ajarae Johnson ’02, Greg …
Issue: May-June 2008
Quantum Leap for Engineering
… Harvard’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) may soon become a full-fledged school of engineering, under a plan presented in May to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) by the division dean, …
Issue: July-August 2006
What Next for Ivy League Sports?
… What is the place of the scholar-athlete in Ivy League colleges today? First among the Ivy League’s statement of principles is the ideal that “intercollegiate athletics …
Issue: July-August 2008
Cassandra Albinson
… Visiting a Victorian house museum with her mother (an architect), young Cassandra Albinson glimpsed a member of the staff open a small door under the stairs and … and Yale. Now the Harvard Art Museums’ Winthrop curator of European art and head of the division of European and …
Issue: January-February 2021
Brevia
… Prizes in science. Roger D. Kornberg ’67, JF ’76, Winzer professor in medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, won the prize in chemistry for studying the molecular basis of …
Issue: November-December 2006