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Commuting’s Impact on Creativity
… As america’s workplaces regroup after the pandemic, a team of researchers suggests that companies take a closer look at one of the potential drudgeries of office life: the commute. In …
Issue: September-October 2021
Attuned to Pianos
… sonata—sound different on a modern instrument than they would have on the pianos their composers knew and … door to the Frederick Historical Piano Collection, the nonprofit organization she and her husband, Edmund Michael … spanning centuries and generations. They bear the names of legendary makers: Graf, Bösendorfer, Streicher, Pleyel, …
Issue: March-April 2023
“This Entire Campus Belongs to You”
… timing could not have been better. When she arrived at the Graduate School of Education for a one-year master’s program in 2017, she … be a culture shock, exacerbated by the unique challenges of attending an elite institution like Harvard. She wanted …
Weathering Heights
… may not be on physical heights exactly, but it is on a part of Charlestown, Massachusetts, called Town Hill, a metaphoric eminence. Here, the Reverend Mr. Harvard lived, preached, and may be buried, … A plaque in the mall refers to Town Hill as "this low mound of earth," but notes that the hill is "the memorial of a …
Issue: July-August 2002
Yesterday's News
… 1911 The College Library expects to be without money to buy new … the Charles), and the Business School complex, a gift of George F. Baker. *** The first movie theater in Cambridge … is about to open across from the Yard. 1931 The masters of Adams, Kirkland, Leverett, Eliot, and Winthrop, the five …
Issue: January-February 2011
Face-to-Face with Faculty
… Harvard College students often lament their lack of contact with senior professors. A discussion … reobservation and interpretation. The students were "surprised that they could look at one thing for two hours," he …
U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik Removed from IOP Advisory Committee
… Elise Stefanik ’06 (R-N.Y.) has been removed from the senior advisory committee of the Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) Institute of Politics, HKS dean Doug Elmendorf wrote in an …
Bon Anniversaire
… Watchers of Julia Child’s TV show The French Chef marveled at how she disposed of dirty pans and kitchen debris by simply handing stuff …
Issue: January-February 2013
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
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 …
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 …
Brevia
… Racial Justice in FAS Following the appointment of the University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer ( Brevia, September-October , page 21), Faculty of …
Issue: November-December 2020
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 …
Ancient Egyptian Funerary Portraits
… Put a fleck of paint under a microscope, and it tells a story. “Portrait of a Woman,” an Egyptian funerary portrait from the second century C.E., began with a piece of wood from a …
Issue: November-December 2022
Crystal Balls
… They were prepared. Alexandra Petri ’10, a columnist for … on “A New Foundation for American Greatness” (the title of the first Trump budget) noted that the lengthy document … was widely criticized for cutting “needed programs in favor of increasing military spending by leaps and bounds.” Petri …
Issue: September-October 2020