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… The Alumni College programs, run by the Harvard Alumni … day-long symposia to two-hour workshops and cover an array of topics. Alumni events offered this fall include: Collection Series: Looking at …
Issue: September-October 2006
Disagreeing Well
… Seo ’17, J.D. ’24, a champion debater and former coach for the Harvard College Debating Union, points to a path forward … Press, $28). From the introduction: This book, the sum of a short lifetime’s reflection, is about two forms of debate. One is competitive debate, a formal game in which …
Issue: July-August 2022
Visual Conjurer
… Carl Sprague ’84 did plenty of theater at Harvard, though he didn’t act much (“I’m a … shows in the Houses, at the Loeb Ex, and even a production of Euripides’ The Bacchae in Harvard Stadium. “I had a hard …
Issue: March-April 2010
Brevia
… Winfrey, who usually plays host on her talk show, will be the guest—and featured talker—in Tercentenary Theatre on May … Commencement day’s Afternoon Exercises—the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. In a statement … Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching—a delightful surprise for the honorand, who helped spur creation of the award …
Issue: May-June 2013
Provost Positions
… The provost’s office ( www.provost.harvard.edu ) continues to add staff to cover more areas of University-wide planning and coordination. Doyle … serving as vice provost for research policy; he works with the office of sponsored research, the general counsel, and …
Issue: September-October 2005
Visionary Donors
… Robert Bliss died in 1962, Mildred Bliss in 1969, but the benefactors of Dumbarton Oaks still cast a long shadow over their former … who combined its first recorded name—taken from the Rock of Dumbarton in Scotland, the homeland of early owner Ninian …
Issue: May-June 2008
“Puritans” Passé?
… In 1994, Kendric T. Packer ’48 wrote to The Pump’s Primus IV to propose rendering the first line of alma mater “Fair Harvard” gender-neutral. (“Fair Harvard! … As now replanted with ferns, its appeal extends from early irises through fall. Another memorial minute, on John Max …
Issue: July-August 2017
Legacy at Law
… Reflecting on his 14-year tenure, ending June 30, as dean of Harvard Law School (HLS), Robert C. Clark discerns three distinct periods. In the first six years, he says, "I was obsessed with getting … enabled by the campaign's $183-million bounty: renovation of Langdell Hall (which houses the enormous law library) and …
Issue: March-April 2003
Allston Expansion
… Harvard and Cambridge. Inevitably, since the "Colledge at Cambridge" was founded, the name of one has evoked the other. So when Harvard presented the winning--and only--bid of $151,751,636 for a 48-acre parcel of land south of …
Systematic Drug Discovery
… Midway through clinical trials for the experimental melanoma treatment PLX4032, researchers … PLX4032 had shown significant tumor shrinkage within weeks of beginning treatment, a radical change from the effective … PLX4032 was among the first apparent successes in the field of targeted therapy. The drug was directed to a specific, …
Issue: July-August 2013
Squash Men Are National Champions
… With a resounding 9-0 thumping of Trinity College, Harvard’s men captured the national championship at the season-ending tournament of … Hartford two weeks beforehand, but the shutout surely surprised many in the huge crowd that thronged to Harvard’s Murr …
Orchid Peeping
… probing pollination strategies opened on Valentine's Day at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and will run through May 14. Orchids: A Story of Seduction features live orchids, a continuous slide show …
Funny, Weird, Macabre
… filled with peculiar places, and J.W. Ocker plans to find them all. The New Hampshire-based explorer—and creator of the OTIS: Odd Things I’ve Seen travel blog, podcast, and … posted with placards and images of the buildings that comprised a thriving community—the church, school, and …
Issue: September-October 2019
HAA Honors Alumni Clubs and SIGs
… The honors , awarded at the Harvard Alumni Association’s … new programs to contribute to the growth and sustainability of their local alumni communities. As president of the 6,000-member Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance …
Issue: March-April 2019
Brevia
… William Jefferson Clinton spoke to an overflow crowd in the Gordon Track and Tennis Center on November 19, emphasizing the importance of caution in an age of worldwide interdependence. The students and others …
Issue: January-February 2002