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Updike's Literary Archive: Sneak Preview
… Harvard's Houghton Library has purchased the papers of the late author John Updike '54, Litt.D. ’92 … received permission for a three-day "sneak preview" of the archive, and made use of that opportunity to file a …
Cambridge 02138
… The Tardigrade Moment Regarding the cover of the … cross many branches of mathematics. Math appreciation will arise from people seeing and understanding the achievements …
Issue: March-April 2020
Face-lift
… Its stacks, reading rooms, and offices already renovated, climate controlled, and rewired for the twenty-first century, the time had come to spruce up Widener Library's exterior, the most visible of campus building projects during the prime construction …
Issue: September-October 2004
New Light on Academia’s Glass Ceiling
… The comments started small—a jab about her intelligence … here, a comment on her body there. But this kind of sexual harassment soon became the defining feature of her graduate- school career, the young researcher …
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
Powering Through
… The buzz at the first postgame press conference wasn’t about … locked up the football team’s 28-13 win over the University of San Diego, or about the 99-yard kick return that was nullified by a penalty, or about Harvard’s chances of repeating as Ivy League champions. With writers from The …
Issue: November-December 2012
Allston Planning Explained
… A room in the Holyoke Center Arcade has been fitted out to help … for an Allston campus. The move follows the release of a 40-page interim planning report last June that was … and the general public. The display, which consists of watercolor drawings and schematics mounted on the walls …
Issue: January-February 2006
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 …
Painterly Dances, Danceable Paintings
… The Chinese American artist Shen Wei is perhaps best known as principal choreographer of the spectacular opening ceremonies at the 2008 Olympics … spirit. Wei “focuses on discovery—the unfolding of a surprise, a new way of thinking about the forms of energy in the …
Issue: March-April 2021
Whittling Down
… At home there’s a box with my name scrawled atop it. It lies in a … I both wrote and illustrated, back in the polymath days of fifth and sixth grade. I spent a week back home this semester, among a wistful gathering of relatives and family friends; we had come together to …
Issue: July-August 2016
Finding Their Way
… fall , Kit Metoyer, AnnMarie Healy, and Shilpa Tummala —the three seniors on the Harvard women’s basketball … the bonds that bolster team chemistry—especially with a lot of new players. A game plan coalesced, thanks to a quick … a home-cooked meal. Afterward came the most important part of the trip: a post-dinner conversation during which the …
Dancer Damian Woetzel Named Arts Medalist
… career spanned nearly two decades as a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, is the 2015 Harvard Arts Medalist , the Office for the Arts announced Monday. Woetzel will receive … include a conversation with Woetzel and Harvard’s “Master of the Arts,” John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, kicks off the …
James Breyer Concludes Corporation Service
… The University announced this morning that James W. Breyer, … investment was probably his early commitment, on behalf of Accel Partners, in Facebook (on whose board of directors he long served)—will complete his service as a …
Jonathan L. Walton Named Memorial Church Minister
… President Drew Faust today announced the appointment of Harvard Divinity School faculty member … as Pusey minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer professor of Christian morals, effective July 1. He succeeds …
To Russia, with Gloves
… The Harvard pipeline to the Winter Olympics this February … Kate Buesser ’11, and Lyndsey Fry ’14; the mentor in charge of shaping these athletes into the 21 players of the Olympic … limit.’’ In Stone’s first season, the nascent Crimson surprised Northeastern, the era’s dominant team, by winning the …
Issue: January-February 2014