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Overseer and HAA Director Elections
… On March 31, the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers announced … the annual voting for new Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), ordinarily running …
Issue: May-June 2020
Alumni Coalition Opposes Harvard Overseer Slate
… Following the announcement of a five-person petition slate of candidates in this spring’s voting for members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers , and certification of the petitioners for placement on the ballot , a number of …
Acting on Slavery’s Legacy
… to slavery and pledged $100 million toward a series of reparative steps, the work of fulfilling those recommendations has started to take …
Issue: May-June 2023
Hannah Lash: Avant-garde, Post Romantic
… Composer Hannah Lash, Ph.D. ’10, profiled in the January-February 2013 issue , discusses how she develops … ideas for her compositions and plays with some examples of such ideas at the piano. …
Harvard College Reinstitutes Mandatory Testing
… Harvard announced today that the College will reinstitute mandatory submission of standardized test scores for applicants, beginning with students applying for fall 2025 admission (the class of 2029). Until today’s decision, the College had a …
Cambridge 02138
… Cass Sunstein As Homer tells us, when the Olympians come down from the heights to interfere with … article about Cass Sunstein’s years in the crucible of the regulatory system and his years as head of the Office … conventional economists have long assumed,” private enterprise has been busy exploiting such knowledge to manipulate …
Issue: March-April 2015
Lingua Branca
… The Brooklyn Dodgers All-Star pitcher Ralph Branca, whose … , by inveterate sports buff Harry Lewis, Gordon McKay professor of computer science and former dean of Harvard College. In …
Issue: March-April 2012
Public Health Fieldwork in Brazil
… It’s approaching noon in São Paulo, Brazil, and steps from the symphonic theater in the center of this city of 20 million, a squatter settlement is being razed and …
Funny—and Afire
… Matthew Browne ’17 recently walked readers through a new form of collegiate humor ( “Our Memes, Ourselves,” July-August). … LinkedIn,” after her retirement announcement , and a shot of Facebook’s CEO at Commencement (a twofer: the honorand, …
Issue: September-October 2017
Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
… received by 5 p.m. EDT on May 21 to be counted. All holders of Harvard degrees, except Corporation members and officers of instruction and government, are entitled to vote for Overseer candidates. The election for HAA directors is open to all Harvard …
Issue: March-April 2019
Re-naming Lowell House?
… As they prepared to assume the faculty deanship of the … they would relocate certain portraits—notably that of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Harvard’s president from 1909 to …
Live a Little
… The West Side Lounge is a fun little restaurant. On a … party. The place was packed with a diverse crowd: a group of giddy young mothers out on the town, Law School students, a table of double-daters, and a clutch of middle-aged researchers …
Issue: July-August 2005
Football: Harvard 41, Rhode Island 10
… and you’re bound to see something new. And so it was that the Harvard football team alighted this past Saturday for … in Division I, trailing only the 16 straight wins of Football Bowl Subdivision defending champion Ohio State. … is now 117-23-2 in season openers. (Rhode Island, a member of the Colonial Athletic Conference, drops to 0-3, having …
Crimson Hoopsters Earn First National Ranking
… strong 8-0 start capped by an 80-70 home win over Seattle, the Harvard men's basketball team, reigning co-champions of the Ivy League, have recorded the best opening of a Crimson campaign since the 1984-85 season. The …
Destination Nollywood
… Films are big business in Nigeria. The country’s motion-picture industry ranks third in the … to practice teamwork. Johnson had spent the first half of the summer working in asset management for Goldman Sachs. … who excelled academically but were nevertheless in danger of dropping out due to their families’ economic …
Issue: November-December 2009