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Art and Nature in Andover
… Two exhibits at the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, in … and television. “Walls and Beams, Rooms and Dreams: Images of Home” features modern and contemporary photographs, such …
Issue: May-June 2016
Report to Readers
… times —pandemic and inflation, polarized politics, the horrors of war in Europe— Harvard’s work matters more than ever . … the alumni and advertisers who choose to sustain this enterprise on all readers’ behalf. You can join them at …
Issue: January-February 2023
Urban Enchantment
… storefronts, snowy sidewalks, candlelit brownstones: There’s nowhere quite like Boston for the holidays. In … Harvard Square’s Charles Hotel ( charleshotel.com ) officially marks the season with their annual tree lighting, a rite of passage every Thanksgiving weekend. The neighborhood …
Issue: November-December 2024
Harvard Interim Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim Task Force Reports
… Interim president Alan M. Garber today announced the preliminary recommendations from the task forces on … speak with kindness”—traits he called “a powerful example of how I hope we can proceed together.” He also cited “their … among others: •Safety and security: “a deep-seated sense of fear among students, staff, and faculty,” characterized …
Annette Lemieux
… been called a conceptual artist, “That’s just for lack of a better term,” says Annette Lemieux, professor of the practice of studio arts in the department of visual and …
Issue: July-August 2007
Harvard Ramps Up Fundraising as Research Cuts Deepen
… The showdown between Harvard and the Trump administration … to a new “Presidential Priorities Fund” that will offer “flexible support” for Harvard’s research and teaching … Another funding cut : On Monday night, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services slashed $60 million in federal …
A Welcome Change
… Last week, a brimming crowd of grayed, bespectacled, and Tyvek-ed Cantabrigians, dotted throughout with important figures from the Harvard administration and faculty, packed into Sanders … for Advanced Study and a Radcliffe Medal, was just coming off of a run of an original play, Notes from the Field: …
Dickinson’s Trinity
… Winter looms, but the artistic imagination can summon the warmer seasons. Porter University Professor Helen Vendler has turned her critical skills to … $35) begins with a deceptively simple verse: In the name of the Bee - And of the Butterfly - And of the Breeze - …
Issue: November-December 2010
“Foot, Ball, Goal”
… The Harvard women’s soccer team seized its moment on a … lone player in league history to be named rookie and player of the year as a freshman, Harvard’s star forward had been … into the box (a pass into the rectangular area in front of the goal) and Purce, using the outside of her right foot, …
Issue: July-August 2015
Freshman Convocation 2015: “Surprise Yourself”
… Wearing blazers , bow ties, and summer dresses, members of the College class of 2019 walked into Tercentenary Theatre … you undertake here. Take advantage of Harvard to surprise yourself. Make sure you are a different person by May …
Adam Falk Address to PBK
… The Price of the Pin, Adam Falk, Harvard Literary Exercises, May 23, 2023 It’s truly an honor to have been invited to offer some remarks at this august gathering. I’ve spoken in …
First and 100
… linking arms and thrusting forward, and a great deal of kicking—both of balls and opponents. The contests often turned into bloody brawls. Footballers …
Craig Lambert , John T. Bethell
Issue: September-October 2003
Animating Music
… Nutcracker Suite as dancing flowers, and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring as a T-rex on the rampage. Today, the music-library software preinstalled on most personal computers offers …
Issue: March-April 2015
College Forms Working Group on Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Student Life—Updated
… Dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds has announced the formation of a working group on bisexual, gay, lesbian, … students, in recent years, questions have continuously arisen about whether and how these disparate entities might …
Casual Contact
… My father, Class of 1957, says that in the 1950s, undergraduates used to converse with professors over leisurely lunches at restaurants like the … who attended Harvard only 25 years ago, still register surprise when I tell them that women live among men in the Yard, …