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Eric Lander and Dan Chiasson at Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises
… The Alpha Iota chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will feature Dan … Chiasson, Ph.D. ’01, as poet and Eric Lander as orator at the 229th Literary Exercises, the headline event on Tuesday … annual Commencement celebrations. Chiasson, the Wang professor of English at Wellesley College , is a poet, poetry …
Clergy Roar like Lions
… Commencements. Her diary was published last fall: Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth-century Woman, edited by Helen R. Deese, the …
Issue: July-August 2006
Grade Inflation Resolved
… months since you asked us to prepare a full report on the problem of grade inflation at Harvard. Even though the following … an A+. To bring you up to date on the current state of grade inflation here in Cambridge, we offer the following …
Issue: March-April 2002
Brevia
… Pioneers George Q. Daley Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Xiaoliang Sunney Xie Courtesy Xiaoliang Sunney Xie The National Institutes of Health inaugurated its "Director's Pioneer …
Issue: January-February 2005
Cambridge 02138
… We Move?” by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, July-August, page 42). The key words here are “efficiently” and “free.” A large … function without similarly free horizontal transportation? Of course there is no free lunch, and the vertical … users only because it is paid for by the tenants as part of their rent. Similarly, the city’s horizontal …
Issue: September-October 2015
News Briefs
… Term Themes President Drew Faust , speaking at Morning Prayers in … broadly, she said that “simply gathering a diverse mixture of extraordinarily talented people in one place does not in … including and belonging,” with each member playing the role of “generous listeners.” Her full text is reported at …
Issue: November-December 2015
Alumni Gatherings
… Upcoming Alumni Colleges include “Women in the War Zone” and “Harvard in the Olympics.” The events are … Women in the War Zone in the Twentieth Century,” offered with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, includes two hours of lectures and a behind-the-scenes tour of the library’s …
Issue: November-December 2005
Gabby Thomas ’19 Wins Olympic Trials, Heads to Tokyo
… Gabby Thomas ’19 made history on Saturday, becoming the second-fastest woman ever in the women’s 200 meters and clinching a spot at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Her time of 21.61 seconds was the best since 1988, when Florence … she broke through. She set a personal best in both rounds of qualifying before a final race that stunned even herself. …
Cambridge 02138
… English 10’s Virtues I was sorry to read that a survey of English literature will no longer be required of Harvard … would have thought that a student who spends a year reading the likes of Chaucer, Milton, Wordsworth, Austen, and Woolf … brought them face to face with the nature of their enterprise more than that initial, sometimes bewildering immersion …
Issue: July-August 2009
News Briefs
… College Admissions Challenges In late june , the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the limited use of race in admissions decisions, ruling in its second pass … ranks, the underrepresented minority share has risen only one percentage point (to 11 percent) during that …
Issue: September-October 2016
Football: Harvard 45, Yale 7
… With the Ivy League championship in hand, Harvard’s high-scoring football team topped off a 9-1 season by demolishing Yale, 45-7, at Yale Bowl on … five straight against Yale, and has been victorious in 10 of the teams’ last 11 meetings. After a Yale scoring drive …
Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
… This spring , alumni can vote—using either a new online balloting site or the traditional paper, … 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 …
Issue: May-June 2019
Developing Deans, Calendar Consensus
… what he characterized last October as a “formidable agenda” of substantive work, Derek Bok pursued less publicized ways to improve Harvard’s operations, from the grooming of future deans to the seemingly mundane matter of aligning …
Issue: July-August 2007
Soccer Champs
… The men’s soccer squad (14-4-1, 5-1-1 Ivy) ended their … ranked tenth in the nation. They reached the third round of the NCAA tournament after a bye and a 3-0 win over … champions. Andre Akpan ’10 was named Ivy League Player of the Year and is Harvard’s all-time leading scorer with …
Issue: January-February 2010
Nuclear War in Korea? Eggs and Taxes More Urgent
… Back in April, shortly after I accepted an offer to teach English in South Korea for the academic year ahead, I started getting questions from … which is directly in the line of fire. They might be surprised to find that, at least to judge from newspaper …