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Harvard’s Honorary-Degree Recipients 2019
… DURING THE MORNING EXERCISES of the 368th Commencement, on May 30, … degrees on five men and four women—the first cohort of honorands to receive their degrees from the University’s …
International Investments
… Harvard’s global ambitions to study and know more about the world, and to send more students out into it, were triply boosted at the end of the spring term with the creation of a new post—vice provost for international …
Issue: July-August 2006
Whales Aplenty
… The hunters launched in mid August from Iceland and steamed … sail the first boat found its quarry, and with the blast of a harpoon cannon, Iceland resumed whaling for the first … from around the world and rekindled debate on the future of whaling. Some species are recovering from relentless …
Issue: November-December 2003
Holy Cross 27, Harvard 20
… Late-game heroics were a specialty of last year’s Crimson team, but there was no miracle finish at Worcester’s Fitton Field last … defenders more than they could handle, completing 25 of 39 passes for 293 yards and two touchdowns, and scoring …
Oh, Happy Day
… On Commencement day they usher elderly alumni into the Tree Spread, point out … batons, and beam festively at all and sundry. They are part of the venerable Committee for the Happy Observance of Commencement, which swells to about 250 alumni volunteers …
Issue: May-June 2006
Coming Out at Harvard
… University administrators interrogated students suspected of being gay. This inquisition led to eight expulsions and … his life just days before he was to receive his degree from the School of Dental Medicine. (Author William Wright … 13 (a group that still exists). Rogers said she was surprised by “the profound sense of loneliness and isolation” …
Issue: November-December 2008
A Call for Credit-Card Disclosure
… Proposed amendments to the federal Truth in Lending regulations would be a welcome … 1975 and a law degree in 1978, has taught at the University of Chicago Law School since 1981, but returns to teach at Harvard Law School this fall. (He married Lindh professor of practice of global leadership and public policy …
Thomas Lentz to Leave Harvard Art Museums
… Thomas W. Lentz , Cabot director of the Harvard Art Museums, today announced that he would step down at the end of the academic year—a surprising and apparently unexpected …
Eric Holder Named HLS Class Day Speaker
… The first African-American Attorney General of the United … to President Barack Obama, J.D. ’91, and later as one of three members on the vice-presidential selection …
“I Got Race”
… Cambridge from Calcutta with six bags and $60, dressed in their best clothes. In India, they were upper-caste Hindu … America gave Sen ’92 new manners (“The Proper Use of Salt and Pepper”; “The Blessed Sneeze”; “The Indoor … people get chicken pox. I also got race as one gets a pair of shoes or a cell phone. It was something new, something to …
Issue: September-October 2018
"A Unique Experience"
… Harvard didn’t share my enthusiasm. When I informed one of my professors that I planned to study modern British literature, he assured me I’d love the nineteenth century; that was as modern as Harvard got in …
Issue: May-June 2006
Disruptive Influences
… as a new high-school graduate, Greg Cohen ’07 played on the U.S. under-19 national lacrosse team and scored nine … Crimson in scoring with 26 points and being named Rookie of the Year by the New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association. But on the first day of practice his sophomore year, Cohen broke his right arm in …
Issue: May-June 2007
A Formidable Woman
… Fasano, A.A.E. '93, when she was closing in on her bachelor of liberal arts in extension studies degree. President Rudenstine saluted her during the morning exercises, "the eldest student in the history of this University to graduate with a B.A.," and noted that …
Football 2022: Harvard 35-Brown 28
… overtime thriller last week against unheralded Merrimack , the Crimson traveled to Providence on Saturday and on a … Brown in the Ivy League opener for both teams. But instead of permitting its followers to luxuriate in a laugher, Harvard needed all of that cushion to stave off the Bears 35-28. The outcome …
Hearing History
… Lei Liang’s Xiaoxiang, a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize, is not the virtuosic tour de force one might expect of a saxophone concerto, a form showcasing technical skill. … traversing the unsettling musical landscapes. Expressions of grief come in waves and paroxysms that overwhelm the …
Issue: January-February 2016