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Hiram Hunn Awards
… Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards from the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid on October 2 for their …
Issue: November-December 2015
Investing in Learning and Teaching
… $40 million to encourage pedagogical innovation and strengthen learning and teaching throughout the University. Their gift focuses attention on one of the institution’s chief academic missions and illustrates the scale of the philanthropy the University aims to muster as it …
Issue: January-February 2012
Coming to Terms with Harvard’s History
… With Memorial Church closed for renovations , the venerable Morning Prayers service has relocated to … august venue in no way diminished the spirit and solemnity of the service. President Drew Faust, a self-identified … always seemed to me a rather noble endeavor so I was surprised when in 2007, after my appointment was announced, a …
Doing His Work
… magna cum laude with a degree in history and literature. He then obtained a master's degree at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and published his first book in 1999, a memoir … from 1999 to 2002. The late Philippe Wamba Courtesy of the Wamba family His family, friends, and classmates have …
Issue: September-October 2004
What Legacy?
… District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs will rule on whether Harvard College impermissibly discriminates against … a light on other factors that go into Harvard’s review of applicants, including consideration of legacy status (the … staff members. The existence of such factors came as no surprise to close observers of admissions. But given the …
Issue: January-February 2019
North Carolina Firm Buys Brattle Street Buildings
… real-estate investment-management firm Asana Partners are the newest property owners in Harvard Square. This summer, … Gourmet Shoppe and Black Ink. The $108-million sale is part of a much broader shift in Harvard Square 's identity. Asana is not the only out-of-town voice playing a key role in the Square’s evolution …
Zzzzzzz...
… being up early: "To be up after midnight and to go to bed then, is early: so that to go to bed after midnight is to go … one o'clock study breaks, and David Letterman are staples of a Harvard student's schedule. The typical student has … not unconstructive love-hate relationship with the concept of sleep and all things associated. On the one hand, …
Brevia
… Heading home James E. Ryan , who left the University of Virginia’s law school to become dean of … readies its plan for the development of the 36-acre “enterprise research campus” in Allston. Read more at …
Issue: November-December 2017
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Directors
… THe names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected …
Strategically Speaking
… July 11 , Corporation senior fellow William F. Lee wrote to the Harvard community, soliciting advice about the qualities … but dismaying, news: reversing earlier polls, a majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents now think … embracing UCSF, Berkeley, large local biotechnology enterprises, and the many area data scientists), can Harvard, with …
Issue: November-December 2017
“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 …
Jefferson's Conundrum
… On Christmas Day, 1801, Thomas Jefferson, then president of both the United States of America and the American Philosophical Society, received …
Issue: July-August 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
Phi Beta Kappa Oration: "Iraq"
… by John Deutch, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and former Director of Central Intelligence … Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Orator. Let me begin by saluting the new members of Phi Beta Kappa. Achievement in …
Audience Response
… 47 when he had an epiphany: No critical comment from a professor could possibly be as instructive to an infant dramatist as the experience of staging a play and hearing, reading, rejoicing in, or …
Issue: November-December 2006