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"Poems Are Not Position Papers"
… Porter University Professor Helen Vendler grew up with her mother’s poetry books, which “stopped with the Victorians.” It … 22 could not write convincingly on the emotions and motives of someone who wrote until he was 73. Perhaps, I thought, …
Issue: January-February 2008
Winter Sports
… Women's Ice Hockey By early December, the icewomen (7-1, 4-0 ECAC) were ranked first in the nation. Powered by recent Olympians Jennifer Botterill … tournament, Harvard took an 84-44 drubbing at the hands of host Vanderbilt, but bounced back with a 69-58 win over …
Issue: January-February 2003
Fertility and Destiny
… birthrates among highly educated women pose a challenge to the U.S. economy and may compound existing social problems, says David Ellwood, Black professor of political economy and dean of the Kennedy School … When Ellwood describes his findings to women, few are surprised. "I think they feel some real sense of frustration and …
Issue: March-April 2005
Building a Better World
… Buried beneath the ground at the highest point in Poughkeepsie, New York, … Replaced in 2017 after it sprang a leak, drained and fenced off from passersby, the cistern no longer serves its … ever been in,” said Justin Brown, M.Arch. ’10. Brown is one of three principals who lead the Poughkeepsie office of the …
Issue: May-June 2023
Honoris Causa
… Commencement. University provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands in the following order, and President Drew … . Seymour Slive. Cabot founding director of the Harvard University Art Museums emeritus and Gleason professor of fine arts emeritus, an authority on …
Issue: July-August 2014
2001-2002 Ledecky Fellows
… The students who will serve as Harvard Magazine 's 2001-2002 … Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows--both juniors and residents of Leverett House--kept in writing trim during the summer. Arianne Cohen, of Delmar, New York, stayed in Cambridge to serve as …
Issue: September-October 2001
'Cliffe Notes
… for Radcliffe by train on a September morning, family all gathered at the station. I promised my stepfather I wouldn't … That day, I became a Cliffie. It wasn't exactly a term of endearment. Even the sound of it, primitive and … for a little while in the garden next to Appian Way. The irises were in bloom; it was a perfect early summer day. I …
Issue: May-June 2002
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
Cambridge 02138
… CORPUS As Jonathan Shaw’s thoughtful article observes (“ The War and the Writ ,” January-February, page 24), the … recognize that the Constitution allows for the suspension of habeas corpus “in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion.” But … current turmoil represents a systematic crisis that has arisen from a failure of “wider vision” (“ Educating …
Issue: March-April 2009
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
Digging Deep into Chinese History
… Editor’s note: Hudson professor of archaeology Rowan K. Flad, a scholar of ancient China (read about his work in “ Chinese Pottery: The First Five Millennia ”), recently returned from Gansu …
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
A Victory for Bach (and Biggs)
… The great concert organist—and sometime radio-broadcast … European Studies). Craig R. Whitney '65 describes the first of many Biggs performances there in All the Stops: The … he donated to Harvard. Biggs's successors concertize on it often.) Biggs, illuminated by a shaft of light, in a poster …
Issue: September-October 2003
An Enterprise Campus Emerges in Allston
… campus in Allston has been advancing this winter, as the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) and University officials published two amendments to Harvard’s … … Updates on Harvard projects in Allston … 1509 … An Enterprise Campus Emerges in Allston … article …
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