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Blessed Unexpectedly
… Tennessee williams , author of A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, was among 11 people awarded honorary doctoral degrees at Harvard’s Commencement in 1982. Another was Mother Teresa of Calcutta, winner of the Nobel …
Issue: January-February 2013
Brevia
… on Slavery On April 6—drawing on research conducted by the student-inspired Harvard and Slavery Project—Corporation … is meant to be the first step in University acknowledgement of its connections to slavery; read a full report . Reconsidering Race At the end of April, Yale announced that it would retain the name of …
Issue: July-August 2016
Harvard Names Lawrence S. Bacow Twenty-Ninth President
… S. Bacow, J.D.-M.P.P. ’76, Ph.D. ’78—president emeritus of Tufts University, chancellor emeritus of MIT, and a member of the Harvard Corporation since 2011 —will become the … and beyond the seeming threats to the university enterprise, he cited world challenges that present opportunities …
A Neighborly Bistro
… Patio diners at Branch Line can watch the sun go down—and might even catch a breeze from the … The restaurant sits blissfully removed from traffic, and often feels as if it’s in its own quiet little neighborhood. … is a partnership between the owner and the general manager of Eastern Standard, in Boston, and shares its …
Issue: September-October 2017
Focus on Faust
… The memories may be fading, but Harvard roared into the new millennium. In the wake of the $2.6-billion University Campaign, Neil L. Rudenstine … of the operating budget from endowment distributions had risen sharply, from 27.6 percent of Harvard revenue at the …
Issue: July-August 2018
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 …
Convocation for a Bicentennial
… Seriously and joyfully, Harvard Divinity School (HDS) began the academic year, and celebration of its bicentennial year*, with images and words that looked … to “Illuminate. Engage. Serve.” Tuesday’s events, the first of a wide-ranging year’s worth , began with an afternoon …
A Shelter in Harvard Square
… More than 500 people filled the chapel at First Parish Church in Cambridge last Friday afternoon to celebrate the opening of Y2Y Harvard Square, a homeless shelter for young people … ’14. There were thanks and praise and giddy eruptions of applause, a vocal quartet singing “Lay Up Your Treasures …
University People
… Heading East Francis J. Doyle III , a professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been …
Issue: July-August 2015
Life in Detail
… Library. I read through clippings on Plath saved by her mother, had a Burger King dinner in the student union, and … to write The Bell Jar , her semiautobiographical novel of a young woman’s breakdown. Slowly, I worked my way … file after file, typing for my records anything that seemed of interest. I’m no stranger to libraries. When I was a …
Issue: March-April 2009
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
Prize-Worthy Work, on Readers’ Behalf
… honor four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf during 2020, and confer a … honorarium on each. Dick Friedman Photograph courtesy of Dick Friedman Our awards for distinguished writing … rich, wonderfully written, and passionate coverage of Crimson football—culminating, this year, in a full season …
Reenacting Early Action
… Starting this fall, students will again have the option of applying to the College under a nonbinding … College decided to eliminate early action for applicants as of the fall of 2007 and move to a single January 1 deadline. …
Issue: May-June 2011
Gallery
… first product placement, managed by new doctors of dental medicine Prathima Prasanna, of Presque Isle, Maine, and Amy Crystal-Regen, of Lexington, … professor of engineering, announced to those assembling in the Old Yard, “My responsibility is to engineer with dignity …
Issue: July-August 2006
“Math Kids” Facilitator
… “The two most important things that a math kid needs are time … was the central tenet for Paul Zeitz ’81 when he started Proof School, a mathematics-focused private middle school and high school in San Francisco. At the end of its first year, this past June, his venture had filled …
Issue: September-October 2016