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175 Candles
… On Commencement Day , August 26, 1840, a small group of Harvard College graduates established what is now known as the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA)—but only after drafting … “though he had worries about his ‘inefficiency’ for the office.” From the start, Adams said that the organization …
Issue: September-October 2015
Sweet Science
… In a Science Center lecture hall, Joseph professor of engineering and applied mathematics Howard Stone spoke about physics to a crowd …
Cold Meets Flame
… Back in the 1960s, many wedding ceremonies Primus attended that weren’t of a high-church sort involved the reading of a passage from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, perhaps this …
Issue: March-April 2012
Hunting a Hardy Hemlock
… Hunting a Hardy Hemlock Toward the end of the first day of the 2017 NACPEC expedition to Sichuan, the collectors saw …
Issue: January-February 2018
Preet Bharara and Mindy Kaling Named HLS Class Day Speakers
… Preet Bharara ’90, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York since 2009, and comedic … also monitors cybercrime and has prosecuted core members of computer-hacking groups; in conjunction with the FBI, it …
Comparing Notes
… as we were both preparing for our summer internships, my mother and I traded fashion advice. We had each gone shopping for the first day of work (I at a weekly magazine, she in a judge’s chambers), … room shrugging her gray suit on her shoulders. My words of encouragement--“You look professional!”--seemed to have …
Issue: January-February 2011
Harvard Will Adjust Coaches’ Pay, Per State Law—Updated
… women coaches have been underpaid—and announced a series of “adjustments” to rectify the imbalance. [ Editor’s note, June 21, 2018, 12:45 p.m. The News Office has pointed out that the adjustments are a response …
Harvard’s Expanding Allston Plans
… Last night , University officials presented the proposed first steps toward developing its “enterprise research campus” (ERC)—a non-academic “innovation” …
Honoris Causa
… 355th Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced them to the Commencement audience, and President Lawrence H. Summers read the citations. In order of presentation, the honorands were: Leo Steinberg. One of the great art historians of the age, who, one observer …
Issue: July-August 2006
Playing Together, Staying Together
… Terrace, which opened in 1964, as a modern neighborhood. The quadrangles offer plenty of outdoor spaces, some with views of the Charles River, for …
Issue: July-August 2014
An Inconsistent Beginning
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Last Monday, to … adage from the civil-rights leader: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of …
Probing Policing
… In the wake of complaints about interactions between the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and black members of the community, President Drew Faust in late August …
Issue: November-December 2008
Musical Activist
… Mainstream pop culture churns out plenty of rockers and rappers, but Derrick N. Ashong ’97, G ’08, is plugged into a different station. Leader of the pan-African hip-hop band Soulfège and zealous …
Issue: July-August 2006
FAS’s Inequality in America Initiative
… Last Friday , the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) social science division marked the launch of its Inequality in America Initiative at a day-long …
Meet Harvard Squared
… and—most important—reconceived special section in their copies of Harvard Magazine. Harvard 2 (“Harvard Squared”) replaces … has included a campus-events calendar, features on aspects of New England life, and a review of a local restaurant. (In …
Issue: July-August 2014