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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
… and he recognized her “wholly new and original genius.” They met twice and corresponded for decades; she called him … he would co-edit and find a publisher for her first volume of poems. But the Cambridge intellectual—A.B. 1841, Dv ’47, … who vowed to reform his country’s “fossilized system of injustice” in “a wave of desire for a freer and more …
Issue: November-December 2024
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
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
A Gendered Schedule
… As the Princeton men’s basketball team pulled away from Penn in overtime of the Ivy League tournament semifinals last March, a Tigers … to zero “Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.” His angst was a microcosm of the excitement swelling through the Palestra that …
Stem-cell Science
… Portraits by Stu Rosner The next time you look in a mirror, reflect on this: the … is always new skin to replace the cells that die and slough off in the shower every day. The source of the new you? Stem cells. Doctors believe that if they can …
Issue: July-August 2004
Bicoastal Poet, Beat Reporter
… August Kleinzahler will be the poet, and Linda Greenhouse the orator, at the Phi Beta … Literary (PBK) Exercises—the first formal community event of Commencement week, and in many respects the intellectual core of the festivities for College seniors and their families. …
Brevia
… Datar for Dean Srikant M. Datar, Dickinson professor of business administration, has been named dean of … effective January 1, succeeding Nitin Nohria, who had led the school since 2010. Since joining the faculty in 1996, … and finance, who helped FAS respond to the financial crises caused by the Great Recession and now the pandemic; …
Issue: January-February 2021
Memory and Celebration
… Listen to the live audio recording. … commencement ceremony is an event rooted in the exercise of memory: memory institutional, historical, and personal. Today we sit where hundreds of graduating classes have sat before us, hearing the same …
Highlighting Indigenous People’s “Connection to a Place”
… In late May , the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Executive Committee … and annual meetings will open with a formal acknowledgment of the alumni community’s debts to and connections with … the Harvard Charter of 1650. “You would be really surprised to know how many students, faculty, staff, are just …
Passive Corporate Governance
… Index funds —the low-cost mainstay of retirement accounts and college … so popular that they now hold a surprisingly large share of U.S. corporations. These passive investment vehicles …
Issue: March-April 2020
Insurgent Election
… The most serene of American elections— the University’s annual balloting for members of the Board of Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association …
Harvard to Launch Quantum Science and Engineering Ph.D. Program
… a Ph.D. program in quantum science and engineering, one of the first in the world, the University announced today. The program has been designed to train the next generation of leaders and innovators in a domain of physics already …
Faculty Meeting, Part 2
… The meeting continued the faculty meeting of February 15, … tenor of last Tuesday's faculty meeting caught me by surprise. A colleague who studies political dissent wondered …
How U.S. Companies Stole American Jobs
… like General Motors and Chase Manhattan Bank hired their own janitors and clerical staff, not just top executives and engineers. Today, low-skilled jobs are often outsourced, with effects that are rippling across the … labor laws are written,” Katz explains, “a lot of issues…arise from the use of freelancers and contractors.” He cites …
Issue: July-August 2017
Comings and Goings
… Harvard clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events, especially during the academic year. For information on club programs for the …
Issue: September-October 2008