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Antioch Revealed
… "W hen Paul came to Antioch, it was the third largest city in the world," writes H.V. Morton in his delightful 1936 book In the Steps of St. Paul. In the mid first century C.E., the Syrian metropolis of Antioch (now Antakya, in Turkey), then a capital of the …
Arts and Sciences Dean to Leave Office
… Friday evening, January 27 , was quiet, with the College dispersed for intercession. Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean William C. Kirby was … initiatives focused on China.” Close observers were not surprised that Kirby relinquished the deanship. A senior …
Want to Be a Presidential Nominee? Go to Harvard or Yale
… and Yale have become more inclusive—increasingly opening their gates to students of diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic … degrees from Harvard or Yale make up less than two tenths of a percent of the national population, but they constitute …
Home-plate Security
… 12, 1877, in a baseball game between Harvard students and the Live Oaks (a semipro team from Lynn, Massachusetts), … the first man to do so. But controversy over the mystery of who invented and wore the first modern catcher's mask has never quite subsided. An early image of the first catcher's mask, front and center in a Harvard …
Issue: July-August 2004
Harvard Basketball's Zena Edosomwan and His Harvard Legacy
… It is hard to miss Zena Edosomwan ’17, the six-foot-nine, 245-pound power forward on the Harvard … saw him leap over not one, not two, but three teammates—all of whom were at least six-foot-nine—during the slam dunk … just 12.1 minutes per game, and many observers were surprised that the highly touted recruit was not having a bigger …
Bill Gates Promotes Public Service
… Microsoft founder Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07, one of Harvard's best … dropouts, spoke to a large crowd of students at Sanders Theatre on April 21. In a talk titled "Giving Back: Finding … What makes a great teacher? Before his talk, he made a surprise appearance at a Teach for America reception at the …
Brevia
… in mid July that Patricia O’Brien , deputy dean for the past two years and co-master of Currier House, would take a personal leave of absence from her University Hall responsibilities …
Issue: September-October 2006
Money-Manager Compensation
… Compensation data for the most highly paid Harvard Management Company (HMC) … in recent years—were released on the afternoon of December 21, as the campus emptied for the winter recess. … Under HMC’s pay formula, these two senior portfolio professionals each earned more than $25 million in fiscal year …
Issue: March-April 2006
Gore to Speak at Sustainability Celebration
… at Harvard on October 22 for a University-wide celebration of sustainability. The event will celebrate Harvard's past achievements, … percent by 2016 ( read more about that in the current issue of Harvard Magazine ). Gore, who drew attention to climate …
Harvard's Googled Library
… In agreements announced December 14, the world's largest search engine, Google, undertook to … on-line reading room to house digital, searchable versions of millions of books belonging to Harvard, Stanford, the University of …
Issue: March-April 2005
Harvard Fencers at the 2024 Paris Olympics
… To a young mind, lightsabers are mesmerizing. They buzz in the hands of Jedi masters, glowing in fluorescent colors. As a child, … in Paris along with seven other Harvard fencers, a mix of incoming freshmen (Colin Heathcock ’28 and Nick Zhang …
Issue: July-August 2024
Spring Sports
… Rowing The men's heavyweight crew capped its second consecutive … and lightweight events, respectively. Harvard captured five of the top six Sprints events as the freshman and JV … Senior Dave Lingman was again named Ivy League Player of the Year. The women's team (14-10, 7-0 Ivy) also defended …
Issue: July-August 2004
Vote Now
… new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. The candidates’ … at the HAA’s annual meeting on June 5, on the afternoon of Commencement day. All Harvard degree holders, except Corporation members and officers of instruction and governance, are entitled to vote …
Issue: May-June 2008
Woods Gets Honorable Discharge, Must Repay Tuition
… Anthony C. Woods, M.P.P. ’08 (the subject of this item in our January-February issue), … dismissal. Woods, who now works in the Washington, D.C., office of New York governor David Paterson, will still be …
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
… 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. and 2 to 2:45 p.m. Panel: "Feminism, Then and Now." 10:30 a.m. to noon, Radcliffe Gym. Moderated by Nancy F. Cott, Pforzheimer director of the Schlesinger Library and Trumbull professor of American history. Annual Luncheon, 12:30 p.m. , …