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Summer in Harvard Yard
… students and visitors, including families, enjoy the shaded lawns of Harvard Yard. The chairs, first installed in 2009 as a project of the Steering Committee on Common Spaces, have transformed …
In Other Financial News…
… Retirements in the Faculty Ranks The 180 senior faculty members University-wide who were offered retirement incentives last December had to indicate their intentions as of June 30. About 70 percent of those eligible are from the …
Issue: September-October 2010
Speak Memory
… to by a boy, waiting for rain," said T.S. Eliot '10 into the microphone. He was giving a reading at Sanders Theatre and making the first recording — of his poems "Gerontion" and "The Hollow Men" — on the … Department) by Frederick C. Packard Jr. '20, a Harvard professor of public speaking much interested in recording …
Issue: May-June 2003
Harvard Calendar
… SPECIAL. The Schlesinger Library celebrates its sixtieth anniversary … for tickets. FILM. The Harvard Film Archive offers several series this fall, including Remembering Romy … 12-22), a tribute to the Austrian-born actress; The Films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder (October 3-29); and The Films of …
Issue: September-October 2003
Head Baseball Coach Joe Walsh Dies Suddenly
… early on July 31. Walsh, 58, served proudly in his self-professed “dream job” for the past 17 seasons, winning five Ivy League championships. … is 569-564-3, including the Crimson record 1998 season of 36-12. He is survived by his wife, Sandra, and their four …
Issue: September-October 2012
Brevia
… “interim” building was created, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine has broken ground for a … site. The new facility, scheduled for occupancy in the fall of 2004, will accommodate teaching space, academic offices, …
Issue: July-August 2003
Homes Away from Homes
… I stayed through Commencement this past June to write for the Crimson and volunteer during reunion events. The day … Illinois, and I was seriously contemplating throwing all of my clothes into garbage bags and chucking them out the … Internet has shaped modern college life, and they were surprised when I told them that their own high-school kids …
Issue: September-October 2007
Why Ivy Athletes Score in Careers
… Or does participation in sports build a special kind of human capital that isn’t taught in classrooms, one that … educational contributions to all undergraduates? Holman professor of business administration Paul Gompers ’86, Ph.D. ’93, and colleagues at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) compared the …
Issue: November-December 2024
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
Riverside Rezoned
… It was June 1970 when Saundra Graham and other Riverside neighborhood activists stormed the stage at … Cambridge neighborhood. Resentment about the construction of Mather House and Peabody Terrace during the 1960s reached … as Harvard appeared ready to expand again. As a result of the local activism, Harvard donated a parcel of land for …
Issue: January-February 2004
Harvard Wins at Henley
… last crew rowed a “straight” (uncoxed) four to victory in the Visitors’ Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta in … event record, bettering the old mark held by Leander Club of Great Britain by five seconds. It marked the thirtieth … a Scottish bagpiper played on the dock the morning of Saturday, June 29, as a final homage to Parker.) This …
Law School Alumna Wins National Book Award
… This year’s National Book Award for nonfiction went to The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family , by Annette Gordon-Reed, J.D. ’84. The book follows three generations of a slave family owned by Thomas Jefferson. It beat out …
HIID, Dismantled
… mission and outreach, with new international programs in the schools and new or expanded academic centers that focus … Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID)--one of the University's first, and largest, foci for … the unforeseeable risks inherent in a worldwide enterprise such as HIID, however well managed." The chief …
Two Harvardians Win MacArthur Fellowships
… Two Harvard alumnae are among the 2024 MacArthur Fellows announced today. Dorothy Roberts, … social service systems. A faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania since 2012, she holds named professorships in the law school and the department of …
Arthur Rosenthal, Longtime Harvard University Press Director, Has Died
… to 1990, died Saturday at age 93 at his home in Manhattan, The New York Times reported . Rosenthal was widely … appeal to a general audience. He assumed the directorship of HUP at a moment of crisis. The press, with its focus on publishing academic …