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Never Alone
… Looking out at a crowd of 804 about-to-be Harvard Law School (HLS) graduates at class day May 22, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland spoke about work. After years of …
Fall Sports
… Field Hockey The stickwomen (5-1, 3-0 Ivy) got off to a fast start, knocking off Penn, Brown, and Yale in their first three Ivy contests. …
Issue: November-December 2002
Cambridge 02138
… Because our printer made a mistake in manufacturing the May-June issue, many readers who should have received … have been reprinted and mailed to the affected readers--all of you, we hope--along with the current Harvard Magazine . … other animals without animal research. So it comes as a surprise that editorial policy would allow such an ad to be …
At Odds
… University leaders had planned to chart many of Harvard’s future paths this spring. A revised College … reformulated during two years of study, would come before the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) for debate and … sphere depends on collegiality, on a sense of shared enterprise, on a commitment to listening as well as speaking, and …
Issue: May-June 2005
Aloian Memorial Scholars
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has named seniors Grace … for thoughtful leadership and enriching the quality of life in their Houses. House Committee co-chair Uche, of Dallas, organized Quad formals and watch parties, created …
Issue: November-December 2023
Winter Sports in Progress
… Ice Hockey The men (8-11-2 overall, 6-8-1 ECAC) continued strong play that often has come up a goal or two short. By midseason, their only Ivy League win was a 4-1 November defeat of Yale. Yet, right after exams, the Crimson showed their …
Issue: March-April 2004
Curricular review update
… The Harvard College curricular review’s committee on general education published its report to the faculty, available in PDF format at www.fas.harvard.edu … Curriculum ,” from our January-February 2006 issue.] … The Harvard College curricular review’s committee on general …
Yesterday’s News
… 1929 The Student Council criticizes the administration’s plan to erect one of the newly endowed Houses east of DeWolfe Street, arguing that the future Dunster House …
Issue: January-February 2024
Commencement Confetti
… did double duty— nailing his Senior English Address during the Morning Exercises but also, literally, singing for his … Jobim (a treat for Fernando Henrique Cardoso, in lieu of the usual classical selection). During the Phi Beta Kappa … , somewhat surprisingly, sang “We Are…” by Ysaye Barnwell (of Sweet Honey in the Rock); its charming refrain is well …
Issue: July-August 2016
The GOP’s Return to Ideas?
… At the 2020 Republican National Convention, the GOP did not … Democratic policies. The Republican Party’s abandonment of ideas under Trump concerned Stephen Goldsmith, a former Republican mayor of Indianapolis. The Bok professor of the practice of urban …
Schooled in Life
… As the College celebrates its 375th anniversary, we asked members of this year’s twenty-fifth reunion class how their … become—and what Harvard could do to improve the education of undergraduates today and in the future. “Have Big Lives.” …
Issue: September-October 2011
Civil Discourse and Institutional Neutrality Task Forces
… interim provost since March 14 , today announced a pair of University-wide working groups. The “Institutional Voice Working Group” will consider when … chaos, the University began to consider adopting a position of institutional neutrality ( first reported by the Harvard …
News in Brief
… before she became president, on July 1, Claudine Gay filled the vacancy created by her election, appointing Hopi E. Hoekstra as the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). She is Agassiz … of the Harvard Corporation. Legacy students typically comprised 11 percent of prior Amherst classes. Enhanced …
Issue: September-October 2023
Adam Falk and Natalie Diaz at Phi Beta Kappa
… The orator and poet at the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises—the traditional, academic opening event of Harvard’s Commencement-week celebrations—will be Adam … Falk, a theoretical physicist, has served as president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 2018. He was …
Harvard Portrait: Tanya Smith
… “Teeth have rhythms inside them that are very precise, regular, and consistent, like rings in tree trunks,” says Tanya Smith, associate professor of human evolutionary biology. “And like tree rings, they …
Issue: September-October 2014