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Negatively Curved Crystals
… In Norman Juster’s children’s book The Phantom Tollbooth , the land of infinity can be reached by following a line drawn on the … in a hurry, an exhibition now on display on the first floor of the Science Center offers a shortcut. Cabot professor of …
University People
… HCF to HBS Under executive director Richard B. Boardman , the Harvard College Fund has become the premier annual … giving organization in higher education (see "An Instrument of Good Will," November-December 2000, page 58). Now … the Charles. July 1, he began working as chief development officer at Harvard Business School, where he will run an …
Issue: July-August 2002
The Week’s Words
… “The Rule of Truth” In a year of harsh attacks on higher education, and worrisome erosions … emerita, focused her May 21 Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) oration on the values and worth of universities, and the threats posed …
Issue: July-August 2024
Lewis on Leadership; Faust’s Farewell
… Before the two main speeches of the afternoon exercises—officially … and integrity.” Faust made a good show of looking surprised; after about a minute of prolonged applause, she made …
Harvard Proponent
… Photograph by Jim Harrison Walter H. Morris Jr. The Harvard Alumni Association’s new president, Walter H. … years ago, but he has never stopped learning at Harvard. He often returns for lectures, meetings, and presentations on … the country, maybe even around the world. “I was in awe of the Internet’s reach,” Morris says, “to the point where I …
Issue: September-October 2008
House Renovation: Swing Space Announced
… The College has announced the Harvard-owned properties that … be used for undergraduate residences during the renovation of part of Quincy House during the 2012-2013 academic year— a …
Pro Tennis at Harvard
… This summer, professional sports will return to campus for the first time since the Boston (now the New England) … Stadium in 1970. Beginning on July 4, the Boston Lobsters of World Team Tennis (WTT) will play their seven home …
Issue: May-June 2005
Getting Along
… At the Start of freshman year, my entry way neighbors and I … morning, we filed into a room in Boylston Hall expecting another in the endless series of mandatory Freshman Week meetings. The discussion began …
Harvard Confers Six Honorary Degrees
… D uring the 372nd Commencement this morning, Harvard will celebrate … honorary degrees on four men and two women: • a pair of life-sciences leaders (including an alumna who is a Nobel … laureate); • a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer (of a civil rights pioneer who is one of Harvard’s most …
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Hard Times for Harvard Football
… Bolstered by war veterans enrolling under the GI Bill, Harvard’s 1946 football squad was hailed as the … Yet the next four seasons brought a mounting series of defeats, attributable in part to bad scheduling, bad … Crimson teams did not lack fighting spirit, but the seasons of 1949 (1-8) and 1950 (1-7) were the worst in Harvard …
Issue: March-April 2010
Cairo Conference
… The specter of Charles Darwin hovered over the Harvard Arab Alumni Association’s fourth annual Arab … ’57, the former prime minister and current senate president of Jordan, touched upon the notion of adaptability in a …
Issue: September-October 2009
Chapter & Verse
… Mike Kempson requests a source for the following exchange, possibly from an old poem: “It was … King Lear: “O, our lives’ sweetness!/That we the pain of death would hourly die/Rather than die at once!” (5.3.184-6). “heights of joy, depths of sorrow” (May-June). John Hostage and …
Issue: July-August 2005
Yo-Yo Ma Is Kennedy Center Honorand
… Yo-Yo Ma ’76, D.Mus. ’91, the internationally acclaimed cellist, will receive a 2011 … Sonny Rollins, and actress Meryl Streep , Ar.D. ’10. Ma, profiled in Harvard Magazine , will be the featured performer at Harvard's 375th anniversary …
Brevia
… All Hands This was the roster on May 7 as the Harvard Kennedy School … right): Alan M. Garber, provost; David M. Rubenstein, chair of the school’s capital campaign and co-CEO of The Carlyle … funded VC firm and one of the first modern VC enterprises. Early annual report covers, from the exhibition, are …
Issue: July-August 2015