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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
Economic Initiator
… Every Wednesday at seven in the morning, Leland Cole ’57 and 10 other Cincinnati … in 1995, when they were charged with the business component of Cincinnati’s Sister City project with Kharkiv, Ukraine. … in 1947). Eventually Cole was inspired to found the nonprofit Center for Economic Initiatives (CEI; www.ceiworld.org …
Issue: May-June 2007
Farewell to Folkman
… Andrus professor of pediatric surgery and professor of cell biology M. Judah … of a heart attack last week at age 74. Folkman, who headed the vascular biology program at the Harvard-affiliated …
Buckskin Diplomacy
… 72 … The objects Lewis and Clark acquired in negotiations with Indian nations have much to say. … The objects Lewis and Clark acquired in negotiations with …
Issue: November-December 2003
Go Wild
… How often have you wandered the Arnold Arboretum or a Trustees property, longing to … you can—and you can do it responsibly—with rewilding. Think of it as the opposite of high-maintenance gardening, without …
Issue: March-April 2024
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 …
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
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
Uncommon Space
… The plaza between Harvard Yard and the Science Center has … nights and other performances, and a trilevel planting of ginkgo trees, sumacs, and ferns to soften the Science Center facade and provide shade and …
Issue: September-October 2013
Yesterday's News
… 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
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
Honor Roll
… four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf in 2014, and happily confer on … (January-February), a penetrating, fresh assessment of Robert Frost. We take genuine pleasure in awarding him … David T.W. McCord ’21, A.M. ’22, L.H.D. ’56, in recognition of his legendary prose and verse composed for these pages …
Issue: January-February 2015
"Born Digital"
… Forty years ago they were “Born Free,” 20 years ago they were “Born in the … matter what your age, says John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard … a “digital native” by living simultaneously on line and off with the help of technological aids—BlackBerrys or …
Issue: March-April 2008
Class Day Speech by Tim Russert
… by Tim Russert, host of Meet the Press So, this is Harvard. Look at all those scholars … ago. In that same period, we’ve had two from Yale. Surprised by that? If you think you have it bad, you should try …
Harvard Confers Seven Honorary Degrees
… During the 371 st Commencement this morning, Harvard will celebrate a small cohort of accomplished leaders, conferring honorary degrees in … Ukraine. The recognition, along with the resumption of in-person ceremonies, reflects a reversion to proper …