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The Fiscal Norm
… The University’s fiscal year 2015, concluded last June 30 … report released in late October, mirrors the outcome of the prior year: Harvard again operated in the black, … outstripping sponsored support. The 7.4 percent rise in continuing-education and executive-programs tuition …
Issue: January-February 2016
The Ph.D. Problem
… Bass professor of English Louis Menand is a literary critic and intellectual and cultural historian—author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club and a regular contributor to the New …
Issue: November-December 2009
An “Oracle of Aqua”
… “Ours is a society of sensual eunuchs, impotent to the callings of the wildness within and as a result, the pull of that …
Issue: January-February 2007
What a Human Should Be
… “We are gathering experience, ” Bauhaus workshop master Josef Albers … introductory course, which tried to scoop the gunk of aesthetic tradition and creative convention out of … arts, unified, would create a future that would “one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like …
Issue: March-April 2019
A Chill in the Air?
… with graduates gone and undergraduates scattered for the summer—the College announced a shift in its … from counseling , provided since 1947 through the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC), to skill-oriented coaching , to be … call for some level of counseling and support that does not rise to the level of full mental-health care. And for some …
Issue: September-October 2019
Reading the Tea Leaves
… Commencements provide annual practice in uniting the Harvard community and celebrating its members, … the thirtieth University president), more personal, one-off events. As such, they may signal new leaders’ interests … the world will look” in the future. In the event, external crises—the financial meltdown of 2008 and the Great …
Issue: September-October 2023
Geographers See Death, Birth, and Job Prospects
… Three days before Harvard’s launch of the Center for Geographic Analysis, National Geographic News … Geography was the first good opportunity.” Geography would rise from this wreckage. The quantitative method of …
Issue: November-December 2006
Mapping the Ganges
… In the summer of 2005, Anthony Acciavatti, M.Arch. ’09, and his … in rural, north-central India, not far from the sacred city of Varanasi. They had stopped to watch the “soupy, brown … future of the country’s water supply, though, he is not surprised that he has yet to hear back about those ideas. Indian …
Issue: January-February 2016
The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination
… J.K. Rowling , author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the …
Ray Charles Plays the "Harvard Club"
… The most grandiose structure on the McLean Hospital campus … was known as the "Harvard Club" because "at one time, each of its majestic corner suites was said to have been occupied … Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam in Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital …
Issue: January-February 2002
Yesterday's News
… 1919 Alice Hamilton is appointed assistant professor of industrial medicine, becoming the first woman to hold a professorial position at the … see each other." 1984 Computer-consciousness is on the rise throughout the University. The Business School has …
Issue: March-April 2004
Words of Wisdom
… daily, watch your diet, and do what you most enjoy.” “One of the best things that can happen is to get fired.” “Don’t … you will end up doing something very meaningful and worthy of your best efforts.” Though these words of wisdom could …
The Parkland Generation
… I spent my July Fourth listening to fireworks instead of watching them. I had opted for a nighttime walk through Danehy Park, just a few blocks north of the Radcliffe Quadrangle. During the school year, it had …
Issue: September-October 2022
Trump Administration Aims at Harvard Funding
… The federal government’s Joint Task Force to Combat … administers disciplinary proceedings and on the oversight of Mideast studies and other programs—tonight announced that … news release , presented as coming from the U.S. Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services …
Studying ChatGPT Like a Psychologist
… Ask GPT-4 , the most advanced model of ChatGPT, to decode a string of … of human minds offer a new way to make sense of intelligent machines. “Cognitive scientists have… a rich toolbox of …