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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
edX Adds International Partners
… edX, the year-old Harvard-MIT online-learning venture, announced … institutions have become partners, increasing the number of participating universities and colleges to 27. The … them, Cornell, following Yale's decision last week to begin offering courses experimentally on the for-profit Coursera …
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 …
Harvard Articulates Principles for “Denaming”
… The Committee to Articulate Principles on Renaming , … might be removed from University buildings, programs, or professorships “in view of their past advocacy or support of … community “will no doubt learn from experience as cases arise.” And how. Perhaps in the spirit of the season, he …
Pipe Up
… The Methuen Memorial Music Hall, with its lavish English … Memorial Church, just as they do with “other forms of classical instruments…in a world where pop music reigns.” … through different-sized pipes produces the panoply of sounds.) The Methuen organ was built in 1863 in Germany …
Issue: July-August 2018
Harvard Education School Dean Appointed
… The University has appointed Nonie K. Lesaux, Larsen professor of education and human development, dean of the Harvard …
Mount Laurel and Climate Change
… “The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, ‘This is mine,’ and found people simple enough to …
Issue: November-December 2019
Harvard Serves
… During April, the University community—in Greater Boston and around the … 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. If you would like to …
Issue: March-April 2010
A Major Disparity in Massachusetts Criminal Justice
… Today, the Criminal Justice Policy Program (CJPP) at Harvard Law … In October 2016, Ralph Gants ’76, J.D. ’80, chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, asked Harvard … American, and Latinx defendants. In his October 2016 State of the Judiciary address, Gants decried the “great disparity …
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
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, …
2009-2010 Cambridge Scholars
… scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2009-2010 academic year. History concentrator Pierpaolo Barbieri, of Buenos Aires and Eliot House, will be the Lieutenant … College; social studies concentrator Jonathan Weigel, of Lincoln, Massachusetts, and Lowell House, is the Governor …
Issue: July-August 2009
Playing with Health
… . Boring. Hard work. This is how most people view managing their health. But if Americans are to truly thrive, they … points as the goals are reached. They choose from dozens of options—increasing fruit and vegetable intake, exercising … he says, “Keas is nothing but a series of psychological surprises to me.” Before Bosworth turned his attention to …
Issue: May-June 2012
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 …
Harvard Capital Campaign Crosses $7-Billion Mark
… The University announced today that The Harvard Campaign— … gifts or commitments totaling “more than $7 billion” as of this past June 30, the end of Harvard’s fiscal year. This … momentum might have slowed (that would hardly be a surprise, after the initial waves of quiet- and public-phase …