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… Innovation Chief Gordon S. Jones has been appointed the inaugural director of the Harvard Innovation Lab, now being created on Western … of free representative government and private enterprise” ( www.bradleyfdn.org ). Mansfield, a prominent campus …
Issue: July-August 2011
Cambridge 02138
… entomologist Andrew Spielman's work and citing his views ("The Landscape Infections," November-December 2001, page 43), … do useful things like pollinate flowers." The moral purpose of human beings may or may not intersect with that of the … him. Lawrence Cranberg, A.M. '40 Austin, Tex. I was surprised that Kirsch made no mention of the very similar …
Issue: January-February 2002
Cambridge 02138
… bargains are not negotiated with an ultimate threat of force in the background ( "The Case for Compromise," July-August), … authority, subject only to voter backlash. Is it a surprise when affected and potentially affected parties do …
Issue: September-October 2012
Aloian Scholars
… Matthew Drazba ’08, of Kirkland House, and Ana Vollmar ’08, of Dudley House, are this year’s David Aloian Memorial …
Issue: September-October 2007
Henry Francis du Pont
… "I am now living quietly in a house that I built near the Museum, where I shall be glad to welcome any of my classmates who may find their way through Delaware." … du Pont converted it into the world's preeminent showplace of furniture and decorative arts made or used in the United …
Issue: July-August 2003
Aloian Scholars
… Eric Lesser ’07, of Kirkland House, and Lauren Tulp ’07, of Eliot House, are this year’s David Aloian Memorial Scholars. They will be formally acknowledged at the fall dinner of the …
Issue: September-October 2006
Class Reports, Redux
… Reading The Red Book, an often funny and entertaining … Harvard-inspired confection, is a bit like watching the women of Sex and The City return for their twentieth college …
Issue: May-June 2012
Marc Shell
… Marc Shell Photograph by Stu Rosner Marc Shell is Babbitt professor of comparative literature, a professor of English, a MacArthur Prize Fellow, and these days, as he puts it, “a more or less inaudible …
Issue: January-February 2006
Reporting on Your Behalf
… Dear Readers , The pandemic has changed all of us—and even a venerable … like Harvard, as we reported during this most unusual of Commencement seasons. Yes, the Class of 2022 enjoyed a …
Into India
… At 8 in the morning , the sidewalks of Mumbai’s Nariman Point … their children become curious about their roots, demand has risen for courses on the region. At the same time, India’s …
Issue: March-April 2012
History in Progress
… 2001, split Richard Beck’s adolescence in two. Fourteen on the day of the attacks, he was old enough to remember life … notion of American citizenship. Citizenship, he argues, comprises not just the ability to vote, but also the rights to …
Issue: September-October 2024
Comings and Goings
… Harvard clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual gatherings. Following is a list …
Issue: January-February 2006
Disturbed, Not Surprised: Students Respond to Sexual-Conduct Survey
… Undergraduates expressed grave concerns about the widespread nonconsensual sexual contact on campus … students—issues that surfaced quickly following publication of findings from the survey conducted last spring. Students … On the other hand, students interviewed said they were surprised that the percentage of incidents that take place in …
Extracurriculars
… There’s no need to sit at home and rue the darkness at 5 p.m. This winter, Harvard Square offers a range of things to do, from Christmas music concerts and …
Issue: November-December 2007
Bricks and Mortar
… Outside of Massachusetts Hall, undergraduates enrolled in Anthropology 1130: the Archaeology of Harvard Yard are diligently working to … Sciences. Through time and space, the University has comprised people and place, connecting the two in ways that …
Issue: November-December 2016