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… 1917 The editors advise Harvard men who want to serve their country in case of war to contact Professor R. M. Johnston, who is “acting in correspondence …
Issue: March-April 2017
Bell Swap
… arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." From the moment they first spoke in Cambridge, in February 1931, … Those @!&# Bells (1992), have lamented the clangs and bangs of inharmonious bells, polluting the air from the River to … leading the faithful to God, their voices the trumpet call of the Archangel Michael. The monks of the Danilov …
Issue: November-December 2006
Fareed Zakaria Named Commencement Speaker
… International affairs expert Fareed Zakaria will be the principal speaker at Harvard's 361st Commencement , the … . His books include The Post-American World , The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad , and From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role . He is the host of the CNN …
Well Done
… The Harvard Alumni Association Awards were established in … October 18, during the Harvard Alumni Association’s board of directors’ annual fall meeting in Cambridge. Highlights of their many contributions are mentioned below. Janet C. …
Issue: November-December 2007
Willets Point, Doomed and Preserved
… The City of New York is about to force out all the residents and business people of Willets Point, a neighborhood in Queens near Citi Field, …
Behind the Scenes: Writing what only I can write
… THERE’S A QUOTE MY FORMER WRITING PROFESSOR LOVES, from … write.” I keep that quote on a sticky note near my desk. Of course, as a journalist, I don’t always get to choose …
Making Harvard Green
… interactive website filled with data on efforts to make the campus environmentally friendly. “We’re trying to be … us move forward,” explained Heather Henriksen, director of the Office for Sustainability. Those goals are …
Issue: January-February 2013
Education, Ever More Online
… HarvardX , the online course initiative, has begun piloting the disaggregation of contents—course videos, recorded lectures, illustrations, and exercises—so professors across the University can search them and …
Issue: July-August 2017
Leila Ahmed Wins Grawemeyer Award in Religion
… Leila Ahmed, Thomas professor of divinity, who studies gender and religion and contemporary Islam, has been awarded the 2013 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for her recent book, A …
A Branch Office Town, But...
… In his gift to Red Sox fans, Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top (Simon & Schuster, $26), Seth Mnookin ’94 offers this take on why the announcement in 2000 that the … was up for sale so energized the Boston citizenry, some of whom worried that a new owner might move the team out of …
Issue: September-October 2006
Tracy K. Smith's Speech
… with you here today. One week after Commencement, at the end of a season when so much work has been completed, and … all the time, in a constant weather of multiple concurrent crises, each as urgent as the next. We tend to enumerate them …
Deval L. Patrick Named 2015 Commencement Speaker
… Deval L. Patrick ’78, J.D. ’82, the seventy-first governor of Massachusetts, who completed … dedicated public servant, and an inspiring embodiment of the American dream,” President Drew Faust said, “We …
New Fellows
… s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2010-2011 academic year are Madeleine Schwartz ’12 and Sarah Zhang ’11, who were selected after an evaluation of writing submitted by nearly two dozen student applicants … by Jonathan J. Ledecky ’79, M.B.A. ’83, and named in honor of his mother; the fellows, who join the editorial staff …
Issue: September-October 2010
Harvard Calendar
… At the Sackler Museum: A barber dyeing Nasir al-din Shah's … Rindge and Latin High School. Contact the Harvard box office at (617) 496-2222 for information. And don't forget ArtsFirst 2001 , Harvard's annual festival of the arts, set for May 3 through 6. Historian Drew Gilpin …
Brevia
… to attract liberal-arts majors in science, government, or other fields who might not have considered such a degree. … will be able to apply by July 1, following completion of the junior year (with admission decisions by September), … for enrollment after their graduation and two years of approved work experience. Google, Teach for America, and …
Issue: November-December 2007