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University People
… Overseers Elevated The Board of Overseers, the University’s junior governing … as president and Ann M. Fudge , M.B.A. ’77, as vice chair of the executive committee for 2009-2010. Garland is a judge …
Issue: July-August 2009
The Good Fight
… In 1831 , the abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Maria W. … within Boston’s small but vibrant Beacon Hill community of free blacks who had come to view the city as something of a haven. American abolitionism was gaining momentum, and …
Issue: November-December 2023
Legacies’ Legacy
… soon, historians will identify two 2023 nails in the coffin. The first is the Supreme Court’s June decision … the thinking goes, attempts to maintain some degree of racial and ethnic diversity under the new law might …
Issue: November-December 2023
From Flowers to Race Cars
… Riddle of the day: Where can you find a showroom packed with … house inspired by medieval churches, along with 800 types of day lilies in bloom and the most comprehensive collection of hydrangeas in the …
Issue: July-August 2018
Benjamin Porteous, Latin Salutatory
… Iohannis Martini Annenbergensis Praeses Bacow, Decani, Professores doctissimi, Hospites ter-honorati, Alumni … et pro te gaudebam.” Tractatur. “Ben, quid agis? Num bibliothecam ipsam in ista sarcina tua portas?” Tunc demum … (English translation below) A Salute to John Martin of Annenberg President Bacow, Deans, Most Learned …
While You Were Away
… Ian Frazier ’73, the journalist and humorist who has taken up the pen for … couplet in that magazine’s December 23 issue . Frazier (profiled here ) niftily memorialized the unusual doings … Climate alarm has ripped the veil. Read a news account of the divestment protest appears here . Locally, the …
Mysteries
… Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office The new spirit house at Adams House Darting a glance at the … it is not effective either. Sean Palfrey, the co-master of Adams House, has put thistle seed in it, but to no great …
Issue: March-April 2011
Cambridge 02138
… Harvard and Slavery While the new stone tablet on Wadsworth House acknowledging four … by the Harvard and Slavery Project not find evidence of the College employing other slaves, at Wadsworth House … were Harvard’s only involvement in our national shame of slavery. Assuming that there is actually evidence of …
Issue: September-October 2016
Your Take: Anniversary Reflections
… Harvard Magazine is planning a special issue with coverage of the University's recent past (focusing on the past … (up to the fourth-century mark). Read a report on the official University festivities planned for the fall and …
Harvard as Seen in Its Buildings
… presence on its Allston properties, will it conform to the prevailing neo-Georgian style, with its warm, ivy-covered brick? Or will a modern expression of a campus arise? A Perry Dean Rogers building (above, left) with a …
Issue: September-October 2001
"City-building" for an Urban Campus
… presence on its Allston properties, will it conform to the prevailing neo-Georgian style, with its warm, ivy-covered brick? Or will a modern expression of a campus arise? A Perry Dean Rogers building (above, left) with a …
Issue: September-October 2001
Second-Life Photography
… Smith ’69, associate vice president for legal affairs at the University of Texas, his wife, Michelle, and their 19-year-old … in college, when “my camera was a permanent extension of my hand,” he had not done any serious photography for 30 …
Issue: March-April 2009
Championship Complications
… On a Sunday morning in late January 2009, the Harvard men’s basketball team gathered at Lavietes … affiliate later characterized as the “toughest practice” of the year, the coach had his players—who had given up … extensively so they’d remember, the man recalled, the kind of painful feeling they should have after giving up …
Issue: March-April 2015
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal The Farmers’ Market at Harvard … (rain or shine) 26 Oxford Street (new location: in front of the Harvard Museum of Natural History) In Allston: Fridays, 3-7 p.m. Corner of …
Issue: July-August 2012
Gender Gap
… H. Summers appeared as a luncheon speaker at "Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce," a two-day symposium hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Addressing a national academic … he had suggested steps for better accommodating women professors (see " Women and Tenure ") -- his subject was …
Issue: March-April 2005