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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
James J. Husson Appointed Head of Development
… vice president for alumni affairs and development, the University’s senior fundraising official, effective April 1. He succeeds Brian K. Lee, who … position in 2018 and will remain on duty through the end of March, consistent with his plan, announced last July, to …
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
Spellbound on Stage
… “Anything that involves music and movement. That’s kind of an odd, specific theater thing. But I find that I get cast a lot to play magical creatures of some kind—and also children.” How to Succeed in …
Issue: March-April 2024
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 …
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
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 …
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
Athlete-in-Chief
… In 1978, Harvard won the Ivy League's first women's soccer championship, and that game ball has graced the offices of three Harvard directors of athletics: Jack Reardon '60, …
Issue: September-October 2001
Poise, in Spite of Everything
… “You have to get the eyes right,” says portrait artist Nina Skov Jensen ’25. “You can mess up a lot of other things and it won’t matter, but the eyes have to be right.” That was one of the first lessons Jensen absorbed when she began teaching …
Issue: May-June 2024
President Obama Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
… President Barack H. Obama, J.D. '91, was today awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize announcement cited the … even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated … those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of …
Alumni Networks
… Compass , a new on-line alumni career network developed by the HAA to replace Professional Connection, is available for free to all alumni and current students of the University. So far, about 15,000 alumni from a wide …
Issue: January-February 2006
Football: Off-Field Incidents
… Head football coach Tim Murphy suspended team captain Matthew C. Thomas ’06 (’07) indefinitely after the Harvard … assault and battery, breaking and entering, and destruction of property. At press time, his case was continuing in the … barbecue on April 29, engaged in fisticuffs with the driver of a Harvard shuttle bus, who was subsequently fired. The …
Issue: September-October 2006
Chapter & Verse
… Suzanne Ekman hopes someone can identify a source for the following line, possibly from a Mark Van Doren poem: … about whether any difference existed between the “tyranny of the left and that of the right,” replied, “It is the difference between dogs …
Issue: March-April 2008