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Sweet Farewell
… Spider man. Parents pass their names along to children. Donors often have theirs applied to buildings. But scientists have … of dancing in Memorial Hall ensued. The public exit reprised Faust’s first official day in office, July 2, 2007, …
Issue: September-October 2018
Jeremy Lin and Elizabeth Warren Highlight Class Days
… yesterday’s Baccalaureate and separate graduations , the College today held its Class Day—as did other schools … welcoming Conan O’Brien ’85 to speak to the Class of 2020, the College today featured former Crimson and NBA … should they have the courage to confront the country’s crises and injustices: “ I guarantee that you will smile a …
Juliet Isselbacher , Jacob Sweet , Jean Martin
Anthony Hernandez: “Harvard’s Enduring Contradictions”
… The undergraduate English address by Anthony Hernandez ’12, … one lesson, Hernandez said, "It's that Harvard is a place of contradictions." For example, at the time of Harvard's founding, women were not eligible for …
Youthful Ardors
… Day gift for us all: a revelation about Love Story. Both the novel by the late Erich Segal ’58, Ph.D. ’65, and the … out in 1970, and so it’s past time we got to the bottom of every jot and tittle of the thing. (The film remains staple fare in Harvard …
Issue: March-April 2015
Whales Downed by Sound
… Navy sonar may have caused a mass stranding of whales this spring in the Bahamas. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) … channel. NMFS asked marine biologist Darlene Ketten of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and Harvard …
Corporation Appoints Three New Members
… Following the Commencement-week meetings of the Harvard Corporation … of Harvard’s Engineering and Applied Sciences enterprise from Division to School, and is the immediate past …
Where Darwin Meets Doonesbury
… Had T.S. Eliot '10 written a senior thesis at Harvard, he might have realized that March, not April, is the cruelest month. For the three out of five seniors who write honors theses, March is the period of greatest stimulus and stress. Most seniors have …
Radcliffe's New Life
… Radcliffe ceased to exist as a college. But reincarnated as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS), it has … but fade quietly into history. Where some saw the end of an era, those guiding Radcliffe forward saw the potential for a new kind of greatness. Both the trustees of Radcliffe College and …
Issue: January-February 2010
Harvard Professor James Hanken on the Amphibian Extinction Crisis
… The Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology is one of the oldest museums in the United States–but part of its …
History and Memory
… Since 2010, Rowena Xiaoqing He, a lecturer in the department of government, has taught a freshman seminar … Tiananmen in History and Memory.” Through a combination of primary source material and scholarly accounts, students …
Issue: July-August 2014
Life Without Mr. Chips
… The undergraduate had heard the myths of Harvard education … he applied: that he'd never get to know a real, live professor; that he'd be taught by graduate students; that he …
Zelenskyy Addresses American Universities
… Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed leaders of American research universities Monday during an online question-and-answer session hosted by the Association of American Universities, of which Harvard is a member. The …
Math Professor Lauren Williams Explores New Ground
… Jealous of elementary-school classmates who spoke foreign languages, Robinson professor of mathematics Lauren Williams found another way to communicate: …
Issue: January-February 2022
Institution-building at PBHA
… "It's the first-ever reunion of Phillips Brooks House Association … says Francis H. Duehay '55, Ed.D. '68, speaking of a get-together planned for November 10 and 11 in Cambridge. Formed in …
Twenty-eighth, and First
… administrator—Drew Gilpin Faust forcefully took possession of her Harvard presidency during inaugural celebrations and … 12. She did so in striking language and imagery, telling the crowd in Tercentenary Theatre—their spirits unchilled by … hill.” Crucially, then as now, Winthrop defined this enterprise as “work we have undertaken,” the success of which …
Issue: November-December 2007