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Adams House Advances
… project architect from Beyer Blinder Belle (BBB), reviewed the plans drawn to date for the three-phase renewal of the 450-student residence, beginning this summer (when … design and construction challenges Adams presents: It comprises six separate structures—dating from 1760 (Apthorp …
Chapter & Verse
… Helen Snider hopes someone can provide all the verses to a song dating at least to 1907 that begins, … or said, "The well-educated Englishman is the noblest work of God." Emily DeHuff has heard that the sentence "The … welcome a citation for the comment "Wagner is the Puccini of music," which he has heard attributed to Igor Stravinsky. …
Issue: May-June 2002
Venturing into China
… The Harvard China Fund , established in 2006 to strengthen … size and even faster in quality,” according to Geisinger professor of history William C. Kirby, who directs the … programs for emergency preparedness and response to crises, a $150,000 venture during its initial 18 months. • …
Issue: November-December 2007
College Conversers
… ginger tea and munching crumbly cookies, seven students gathered in the Leverett Senior Common Room to talk, as they … topics vary, as do their invited faculty guests. Members of the Harvard Undergraduate Salon for the Sciences and … topics. The group facilitates conversations that put professors from many disciplines and students on equal …
Issue: January-February 2025
Retinal Ennui
… If you “can’t see the forest for the trees,” you’ve focused too much on the … you can’t see the tiger for the trees, you have a problem of a rather different sort. Recent research by Tarr professor of molecular and cellular biology Markus Meister …
Issue: November-December 2005
Bulfinch Magic
… Hall 188 years ago. He caused to be built a staircase of heavy granite, tons of it, that would float in space, supported (presumably) by its own interlocking steps. In fact, nobody knows how the stairs (pictured below) are suspended. And though …
Harvard Medalists
… The Harvard Alumni Association has recognized three … University. (The actual medal presentation, typically part of the HAA’s annual meeting on Commencement day, has been … to a later date.) David L. Evans , senior admissions officer at the College, retires this summer, following more …
Issue: July-August 2020
Case Dismissed
… When Harvard denied tenure to political theorist Peter Berkowitz, an associate professor of government, in 1998, he filed an internal grievance, …
Issue: September-October 2003
“A Few Writing Projects”
… Somewhere around the beginning of June, I received a kind note from a magazine editor—really the sort of kindness you see only in a letter of rejection, where …
Issue: November-December 2016
Liberia’s President to Speak at Harvard Commencement
… The University announced toda y that Liberian president … Harvard's 360th Commencement, on May 26. “Over the course of her nearly 40 years in public service, President Sirleaf … such a respected African leader and active proponent of democracy to speak on Commencement Day.” Johnson studied …
Gustave and Rita Hauser: Donors Who Care Deeply About Education
… Hauser, a cable-television pioneer (he was chairman and CEO of Warner Cable Communications, and is credited with … innovations including pay-per-view, Nickelodeon, MTV, and the Movie Channel), and Rita Hauser (a past senior partner … at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and board member and chair of many international humanitarian and research …
Cambridge 02138
… liberal but “equally eager to expose hypocrisy...from the political left.” I disagree. When Rich criticizes a … Is there not, however, a conflict between the interests of individual shareholders and the interests of … with Grey. When we contacted him, Pauly was surprised to learn that my grandmother was 14 when she met Grey …
Issue: May-June 2007
Who Are You, Anyway?
… from Harvard. I shrieked and performed an atavistic dance of sibling glee among the pizza boxes and Diet Coke cans in my Dunster House … during my senior year. Charlotte and I are the older half of a family of four girls. Soon our sister Sylvia, age 18, …
Larry Summers Reflects
… In the decade since Lawrence H. Summers departed Massachusetts … Hall, the former Harvard president, now Eliot University Professor, took a sabbatical; resumed teaching; joined … Harvard Magazine visited Summers at his Kennedy School office for a reflective conversation about these activities …
Issue: May-June 2016
Baccalaureate Address 2023
… Welcome to the Class of 2023—and welcome to soon-to-be graduates of Harvard College. Give yourself a round of applause. … know that it actually dates back, at least at Harvard, to the 17th century. And the baccalaureate address, which I’m …