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New Faces
… The white men hanging on Harvard’s walls are moving over. With a $100,000 grant from the president’s office, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations began in 2002 to commission oil portraits of minority and female Harvardians. Foundation director S. …
Issue: January-February 2011
After Slavery Report, What Next?
… The hard part has barely begun. That was the reality that … the University’s historic ties to slavery. The most urgent of those questions relate to repair and atonement, and to … merely theoretical: included in the report were a series of broad recommendations for redress, to which the Harvard …
Ivies Limit Full-Contact Football Practices
… The Ivy League has decided to limit the number of … that teams can have in an effort to reduce the chance of head injuries to players, according to a New York Times …
Hooray for Harvardwood
… Alumni in Hollywood rolled out the red carpet for 14 undergraduates who flew to Tinseltown … industry. "It's meant to give them a broad sample of what's available in terms of careers, and to demystify Hollywood," says Mia Riverton …
Issue: May-June 2003
Football 2019: Harvard 42, Brown 7
… To paraphrase Ric Ocasek, the late, great frontman of the rock group The Cars, the … dispiriting 31-23 opening-game loss to the University of San Diego, the Crimson not only won its Ivy League opener …
Harvard Faculty Teaching Honors
… At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on May 6, in … ritual, Dean Michael D. Smith conferred diverse honors on professors who have been recognized for outstanding teaching, … professor of Japanese art and culture ; and Greg Morrisett, Cutting professor of computer science . This year’s …
Harvard Serves
… During April , the extended University community—in Greater Boston and … to apply “our knowledge to help advance the well-being of people in the world beyond our walls,” the HAA hopes to … organizers will choose one or more dates during the month of April for their service opportunity. Anyone with …
Issue: January-February 2010
Directing Development
… Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74 has been appointed the University’s vice president for alumni affairs and … nationwide search, fills the vacancy left by the departure of Donella Rapier, M.B.A. ’92, announced last winter, and … a large capital campaign expected to be a major element of Faust’s presidency. (Robert Cashion, director of …
Issue: November-December 2007
A Marathon Dream Deferred
… The day of the 2018 Boston Marathon was blustery, rainy, and … in Newport, Rhode Island, and wound up winning with a time of two hours and 39 minutes. It seemed that everything was …
Dress for Excess
… Lady of the Wood , by Alaskan carpenter David Walker, is just that: … sporting an eighteenth-century ball gown crafted entirely of mahogany, maple, cedar, and lacewood. Walker steamed, … design competition WOW® World of WearableArt TM —appear at the Peabody Essex Museum through June 11. For 25 years, the …
Issue: March-April 2017
“An Illuminating Day”
… The Harvard Campaign’s launch event—titled “An Illuminating … Saturday, September 21, on campus in Cambridge. An audience of donors and fundraising volunteers, joined by senior … was scheduled to take in events including: “The Future of Knowledge,” a panel discussion among five senior faculty …
A Yukon Life
… Though urged to write publishable essays on his experiences there, he wanted to avoid the temptation of tinkering with his life for the sake of narrative … your hands up in an attitude of prayer or stagey surprise will keep the snow from filling up the cuffs of your …
Issue: September-October 2021
Tiny Treasure
… The kitchen at Ten Tables is like none we’ve ever seen. … doubles as a table for two facing the kitchen. Courtesy of Ten Tables The storefront at Ten Tables suggests European … by design. “I like customers to feel like they are part of the experience, not that the experience is happening to …
Issue: September-October 2007
Hockey Highlights—and Heartache
… National Runners-Up The women’s hockey team —under Landry Family head coach … But junior goalkeeper Emerance Maschmeyer returns, as do offensive powerhouses Mary Parker, Miye D’Oench (both … Daniels (a sophomore), and Lexie Laing (a freshman): four of the five team leaders in points. A Brief Postseason The …
Issue: May-June 2015
Alec Baldwin to Speak at Law School Class Day
… Alec Baldwin Actor Alec Baldwin will be the Class Day Speaker at Harvard Law School on May 25. Currently a star of the NBC comedy series 30 Rock, with Tina Fey, Baldwin has …