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“We Will All Be Arguing”
… University leaders were at great pains to encourage the Harvard community to live up to its ideal of forthright discussion, at a time when the wider society … of the doubt, at least initially… and you will be surprised by the number of friends you will acquire, people …
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Issue: November-December 2022
Culture(less) Club
… During the year and a half I have spent as a student at Harvard, … tRNA in a Life Sciences 1a lecture, experienced the nature of causation in Philosophy 8, and proclaimed the … of a reputation for homogeneity. Thus it was with great surprise and delight that I arrived on campus to find that my …
Issue: May-June 2007
Editor’s Letter: May-June 2011
… Dear Reader, As we move into spring and toward the 360 th Commencement, Harvard Magazine’s May-June issue … to understanding health through metabolism . The future of the media emerges in a revealing profile of Andrew Sullivan , M.P.A. ’86, Ph.D. ’90—fiscal …
Governing Geoengineering Research
… David Keith , McKay professor of applied physics in the School of Engineering and Applied …
Issue: July-August 2013
What Do Your Feelings Have to Do with Literature?
… "How strange it is...that we are so often locked out of ourselves," writes Arnold Weinstein, Ph.D. '68, in A Scream Goes through the House: What Literature Teaches Us about Life (Random … of you are delighted?" and they would have been equally surprised. Feeling — personal pain and personal pleasure …
Issue: July-August 2004
Bioentrepreneurship
… The University’s encouragement of entrepreneurial endeavors … XGenomes (gene sequencing), each typically consisting of two to five people. Benches rent for $2,500 per month, … will, over time, help to populate the planned “enterprise research campus” envisioned for Allston, much as MIT …
Issue: January-February 2017
Blake Alexander Lopez ’24, Latin Salutatory: “Distantia Propinquior” (“A Nearer Distance”)
… AVete, Praeses Garber, clarissimi decani, sapientes professores, dilectae familiae, amici, hospites, condiscipuli, … duos uel—eheu!—tres studentes congregantes in scalis Bibliothecae VVideneris. Quis autem possit obliuisci memorabilia … Nearer Distance A SALUTATORY ORATION DELIVERED IN CAMBRIDGE OF NEW ENGLAND AT THE UNIVERSITY’S COMMENCEMENT ON THE 23 RD …
Small-Town Roots
… Small-town Professors. Faculty members at elite institutions like this one are commonly thought of as a sleek breed. But their origins sometimes are, or at least were, humble, and … end of each field, a running count of concentrators. No surprise, the number in comp lit halved from 2011 to 2019 (2020 …
Issue: January-February 2022
Elsewhere
… 2001, College students’ international experiences during their Harvard years—formal study abroad, research, work or … the “unusual” to the “almost routine.” So reported Gutman professor of Latin American affairs John H. Coatsworth to the Faculty …
Issue: January-February 2006
News Briefs
… A Coach Cashiered On July 9 , The Harvard Crimson and The Boston Globe reported that Peter … 1999, had been dismissed. A statement released by director of athletics Robert L. Scalise said: “In April, Harvard was … in late 2018 to direct development of the commercial “Enterprise Research Campus” (ERC) across Western Avenue from the …
Issue: September-October 2019
Elegante!
… white columns as thick around as redwoods. Everything but the cork floor is white, black, or very dark brown. The few modernist decorative elements are writ large: part of one wall is a light-box mural with a photographic image of a manicured landscape devoid of blooms. The …
Issue: November-December 2007
Present Memories
… During the class of 1972’s thirty-fifth reunion in June, about 80 … animated discussion spurred by this April 1969 photograph of students gathered on the steps of University Hall. Daniel Gensler ’72, …
Issue: September-October 2007
Capitalizing
… The University announced in mid September that The Harvard … publicly a year earlier, with $2.8 billion of gifts and pledges in hand—had realized an additional $1.5 … by a sign that seems promising not only for his enterprise, but for the larger University. Ralph James, M.B.A. …
Issue: November-December 2014
Video: Cooking and Creativity
… Ferran Adrià is head chef at elBulli, the restaurant near Barcelona that Restaurant magazine has … Video by Mark Felton Watch this video for: • images of culinary creations from the elBulli kitchen • an excerpt from Professor Roberto Kolter’s introduction of Ferran Adrià—the …
Issue: March-April 2009
Endowment Improvements
… The University’s endowment was valued at $27.4 billion as of June 30, the end of fiscal year 2010--up 5.4 percent from $26.0 billion at …
Issue: November-December 2010