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Comings and Goings
… University clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events. Following is a partial … speakers appearing at local clubs this winter. For further information, contact the club directly, call the HAA at …
Issue: January-February 2007
Warrior Artists
… annihilated Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. cavalrymen under his direct command at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in the Montana Territory on June 25, … J.S. Moore, reputedly killed by Half Moon in 1868. A group of at least five Lakota warriors had repurposed the ledger …
Issue: May-June 2009
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
Improving Harvard College and Graduate School Discipline
… In the wake of the Israel-Palestine protests during the … subcommittees needed to hear cases when multiple cases arise at once, as in the protests last April and May; and • … continue to adjudicate instances of misconduct that may arise in a broad range of contexts while honoring the …
Cambridge 02138
… A comment from an uninformed foreigner. It seems to me that the U.S. Supreme Court is the very insurance that the … Caplan, March-April, page 48). In the U.K., decisions of the courts are subject to government modification. I wish … Houghton Library as a scholarly temple whose treasures surprised and enthralled (“ An ‘Enchanted Palace,’ ” …
Issue: May-June 2017
Map Miscreant
… Edward Forbes Smiley III, of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, was caught in June 2005 leaving Yale’s Beinecke Library with five of its rare maps in his briefcase and tweed jacket. A … removing a map (valued at $150,000) from a book. Following the announcement of Smiley’s arrest, the Harvard College …
Issue: September-October 2006
"You have to be flexible."
… environment, social history, and political context affect the well-being of children, with a particular interest in male youth," … explains West, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). "Most of the morbidity and …
Issue: September-October 2003
Has Harvard “Divested”?
… P erhaps more than any other issue, questions about Harvard’s endowment investments in fossil-fuel production and advocacy in favor of divesting any such assets have dominated campus … University’s role in addressing it. One such instance has arisen recently, in the response to a Harvard statement about …
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
The Medical Civil Rights Act
… Brigham and Women’s Hospital, watched in horror with much of the country as the story of 25-year-old Freddie Gray unfolded on national television. …
Richard Murnane Named Acting Education School Dean
… Faust today announced that Richard J. Murnane, Thompson professor of education and society , will serve as acting dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), effective …
Holding Emotion “At an Observer's Distance”
… By the time Elizabeth Bishop began to teach at Harvard, in 1970, she was nearing the end of an exceptionally brilliant career in American poetry. … Though she published little—just four collections, a total of about 100 poems—her work earned the Pulitzer Prize and …
Issue: March-April 2017
A Landmark Gift for Learning
… aimed at encouraging pedagogical innovation and strengthening learning and teaching throughout the University (as … or curricular additions per se). The timing and size of the Hausers’ gift—coming just four days after the social celebration of Harvard’s 375 th anniversary , and well before any formal …
“A Physician to Institutions”
… Steiner ’54, LL.B. ’58, died June 11 from complications of chronic lung disease, ending a life of distinguished contributions togovernment and, … described Steiner as a “physician to institutions.” Among them were Harvard; the New England Conservatory, where he …
Issue: September-October 2006
Sweet Tweets
… 3-D is a good type of movie but a bad type of bra size. Everyone knows about the one phone call from jail, but you never hear about the … came to life. When I tell you no one’s ever thrown me a surprise party, just know that I’m not counting interventions. 4 …
Issue: March-April 2012