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“Soar and Swing”
… Toward the end of his life , Duke Ellington composed what he considered his “most important” music: the suites and songs for three “Sacred Concerts,” performed … trained singers like Adelaide Hall and Kay Davis. Many of these intricate, often wordless compositions (in which …
Issue: July-August 2015
News in Brief
… Decanal Duo… A professor returning to Harvard and one in continuing service … been appointed to lead Harvard Divinity School (HDS) and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS, part … holds no direct investments in fossil-fuel-producing enterprises and intends to reduce its indirect holdings in such …
Issue: November-December 2023
Barley Recipe (Orzotto) by Chef Mario Marini
… This recipe was prepared by Chef Mario Marini of ALMA (The School of Italian Culinary Arts) to meet sustainability and health …
Blue, Yellow, Crimson
… When he was president of Harvard, Neil L. Rudenstine made the case for universities’ role as custodians of human histories, cultures, and languages by telling a …
Issue: May-June 2022
Generous Givers
… Donations to the University totaled $590 million in the fiscal year ended … The previous peak, $658 million in 2001, came at the end of the $2.6-billion University Campaign. (Unlike the higher … in Harvard’s annual financial report, the development-office figures discount capital gifts for life income funds …
Issue: November-December 2005
Catalyzing Bioengineering
… With his $131-million gift in support of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, … proceeds from laboratory to licensing or start-up enterprises through a changing roster of core and associated …
Issue: September-October 2019
Lowell, Not Coming to Dinner
… Abbott Lawrence Lowell, the University’s president from 1909 to 1933, looms large in … became public in 1922,” wrote John Bethell, former editor of Harvard Magazine , in Harvard Observed , his history of the institution during the twentieth century. “One arose …
Football 2017: Harvard 38, Lafayette 10
… you back on track. Ignited by Justice Shelton-Mosley ’19, the Harvard football team cruised to a relatively … at Harvard Stadium. The win in the final nonconference game of 2017 gave the Crimson an overall 3-2 record (the Leopards … standout. Wideout Adam Scott ’19 took the second-half kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown. Running back Charlie Booker …
Animal Liberation
… who had little interest in animals, domesticated or otherwise, until he had lunch with a vegetarian friend one day and they began talking about the use and abuse of animals. Singer was quickly converted to the cause, and within a few years became its champion. One of the pivotal events in the treatment of laboratory animals …
"Harvard Is Not Invulnerable" to Shocks: Faust's Sober Financial Message
… a letter to faculty, students, and staff, highlighting the "extraordinary turbulence still roiling the world’s … economy" and outlining the "implications for us at Harvard" of the "global economic crisis." Characterizing the … a broad commitment to maintaining the basic research enterprise, in all fields, and continuing "significant investments …
Finding Their Stride?
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Entering Saturday’s … team had thrived or perished based on the performance of reigning Ivy League Player of the Year Wesley Saunders ’15. Against the University of …
Comings and Goings
… Harvard clubs host lectures, seminars, and social gatherings. Following is a partial list of Harvard-affiliated speakers appearing at local club … or visit www.haa.harvard.edu . On May 5, the Harvard Club of New Hampshire offers a lecture by Fogg Art Museum curator …
Issue: May-June 2005
Ed School Announces Harvard Teacher Fellows Program
… With a lead gift of $10 million—one of the largest in the school’s history—the Harvard Graduate …
New Fellows
… The magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows … harvardmagazine.com, among other responsibilities. Browne, of West Point, New York, and Adams House, is a senior … He is a staff writer for The Harvard Advocate and a member of the Signet Society. After summers previously spent doing …
Issue: September-October 2016
Two Projects Proceeding
… In January, the University placed a $480-million debt offering, in part … to retire existing borrowings but also for $219 million of “project costs,” the majority associated with Harvard Law …
Issue: March-April 2010