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Commencement Celebrity: Tom Hanks to Address Graduates
… A ctor-filmmaker Tom Hanks will be the honored guest speaker at Harvard’s Commencement this May … Known for comedic roles in Splash , Big , and A League of Their Own , he won Academy Awards for best actor for his … numerous limited series and television movies such as Band of Brothers and John Adams . His debut novel, The Making …
This Blessed Plot, This Earth, This Realm, This Harvard~Part Three
… All the world’s a school, And all the men and women merely … save our global home, This borrowed wonder. The last field of all, That ends this strange eventful course of study: Philosophy, or Folklore and Mythology, When final …
Issue: May-June 2008
“Here and Then Gone”
… In playwright Bess Wohl’s work—sweet and sharp and sad, and often darkly funny—something important is usually missing. In American Hero, it is the owner of a new sandwich franchise who mysteriously disappears, …
Issue: January-February 2019
Words with No Freedom
… “Free should the scholar be,” claimed Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837. “Free even to the definition of freedom.” Speaking to Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa Society, … Ages” demonstrated how intense intellectual commitment can arise behind bars. If academic writing is supposed to develop …
Ivy League Cancels Winter Season
… With COVID-19 cases rising across the country, the Ivy League has canceled its winter athletic season. The statement by the Ivy League Council of Presidents, released yesterday, also noted that fall … season will also be postponed “through at least the end of February 2021.” “The unanimous decisions…follow extended …
Education Executive
… Kathleen McCartney, Harvard Graduate School of Education’s (HGSE) new dean, has already shown she can … controversy with poise. Three years ago, when she and other researchers from the National Institute of Child Health … about what graduate studies in education should comprise. HGSE master’s and doctoral candidates now take certain …
Issue: September-October 2006
Missing PDF
… The PDF you requested is not available. Please contact Bob Fitta , Director of Advertising, at: bob_fitta@harvard.edu or 617-496-6631 … and to find out how Harvard Magazine compares with other national titles. … The PDF you requested is not …
Second in Command
… Lawrence H. Summers emphasized that efforts to bring the University community together intellectually and … and scientific research and education, would be two themes of his administration. Matching action to agenda, on October 29 he announced the appointment of Steven E. Hyman, M.D. '80, as provost, Harvard's …
Issue: January-February 2002
House Renewal Update
… Additional information has become available since the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) “Strategic Assessment Report” on … Harvard Magazine ) . As reported, FAS disclosed that as of March 31, it had secured gifts and pledges of $230 …
Issue: September-October 2016
Historical Record v. Trump
… In May 1865 , Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America, snuck out of his tent wrapped in his wife’s …
Televangelists on Tape
… By sending his personal archive —300 boxes full of videotapes and correspondence—to Harvard’s library this summer, Bishop Carlton Pearson says he is “taking the old me and putting it in the mausoleum.” He hopes that … all over the world.” As his former self, Pearson was one of the most prominent African-American Pentecostal …
Raj Chetty Will Return to Harvard
… Raj Chetty , professor of economics at Stanford and one of the world’s foremost …
Noel Michele Holbrook
… by Stu Rosner Missy Holbrook '83 grew up in a suburb of Washington, D.C., where she somehow conceived an interest … Palm Society travel grant sent her to Panama for a year off at a Smithsonian Institution research station in a … forest. Through hours of quiet contemplation of it, the forest stopped looking to her like a wall of green, as …
Issue: March-April 2003
Chapter & Verse
… James MacKillop writes, "The quotation, 'The map appears to us more real than the … (sometimes misquoted as 'The map appears to be... ') is often ascribed to D.H. Lawrence. It is not, however, to be … story" about a boy who at night could hear the "long ah" of the ocean surf far below his bedroom window and who read …
Issue: September-October 2004
Three Harvard Students Win Rhodes Scholarships [Updated]
… The Rhodes Trust has announced that two Harvard students … House. The Trust provided the following descriptions of the two winners. Fong is “majoring in Computer Science. … an advocate for autism-related causes, and was a director of Big Sibs program in Boston’s Chinatown. She is a member …