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Harvard Commencement 2022
… Commencement week this year celebrates the University's 2022 graduates, along with memebers of the classes of 2020 and 2021 who missed out on campus festivities …
Issue: May-June 2022
Cambridge 02138
… Athletics Angles Anent the letter in the March-April issue about football : should … banning this dangerous sport? There is compelling evidence of lasting—and potentially lethal … Bemis Jr., M.B.A. ’54 Santa Fe I was bemused, but not surprised, to see President Faust touting Harvard’s Center for …
Issue: May-June 2015
"Harvard" Square
… In search of caffeine for an all-night rendezvous with a term paper, the undergraduate passed Elsie's Famous Sandwiches, where he … * Three hundred and fifty Quad residents were recently surprised to learn that they no longer lived in North House. The …
Harvard Returns to Normal This Fall
… Harvard has announced that the University will essentially return to normal for the … faculty, and staff from President Lawrence Bacow, Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine Gay, Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) dean Emma Dench. The letter …
Lydialyle Gibson , Jacob Sweet
A Delicate Power
… India and raised in Paris, Shantala Shivalingappa is among the world’s best practitioners of Kuchipudi, a classical narrative dance from South India … rarely performed in Boston. “It is so complete,” she says of the form. “It has force and grace, strength and fluidity, …
Issue: January-February 2015
Chapter & Verse
… Andrew Hamilton writes: “For research into the origins of a poem by Robert Frost, I am searching for any reference to Veritas, the Roman goddess of truth, that would support statements that she was thought …
Issue: November-December 2016
“How Do You Last 35 Years?”
… women’s basketball head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith stood in the front of the lounge of Dillon Field House and raised a toast to … Amy Reinhard. She is leading the effort with Catherine Crisera ’96, who said they were also moved by the death last …
Priscilla Chan Grants $12 Million for Public Service
… and CEO, as he finally got his Harvard degree and delivered the address at the Commencement afternoon exercises last … (CZI) has made a $12.1-million, 15-year grant in support of Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), with which she … Field public-housing projects. (She visited members of the Franklin Hill community yesterday, as shown in the …
Honoris Causa
… Commencement. University provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands in the following order, and President Drew … . Wallace S. Broecker. Newbury professor of geology at Columbia, popularly credited with coining the …
Issue: July-August 2015
Chapter & Verse
… Jacob Adler seeks a source for the assertion by Menasseh ben Israel in book 2, chapter 26, of Nishmat Hayyim [The Breath of Life], (Amsterdam, 1651), that if an elephant “kills a …
Issue: November-December 2020
Masterpiece Pieces
… Scholars at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies on the outskirts of Florence, Italy, gather for after-lunch coffee in the salone (below). There they are overseen by, …
Issue: November-December 2009
Sports in Brief
… Soccer The women’s team (12-5-1, 6-0-1 Ivy) had a banner campaign, … was able even to tie the Crimson. In the first round of the NCAA tournament, Harvard lost to Boston University, … Melanie Baskind was unanimously named Ivy League Player of the Year; she led Harvard’s attack with eight goals and …
Issue: January-February 2012
Harvard Football Great Performances: Ric Zimmerman ’68
… In normal times , the Harvard football team and its hardy followers would be … final-play heartbreaker for Harvard at the Stadium. Instead of dwelling on such misfortune, let us recall another … without games, football correspondent Dick Friedman reprises past Crimson glories: epic plays, players, and …
Space Matters
… Academic staff members across the University who plan and design teaching spaces gathered for a week of discussion and site visits to exchange ideas on how to … Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT), included tours of innovative learning spaces across campus, including a …
Harvard Divinity School Receives Christian Studies Endowment
… James R. Swartz ’64, have donated $10 million to establish the Susan Shallcross Swartz Endowment for Christian Studies, in support of new professorships, fellowships, and educational programs. The …