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Harvard ROTC Commissions Four Officers
… In the year the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps returned to the University campus, four new officers from Harvard joined the armed forces of the United …
Education's Limits
… I n a village in northern Tanzania in the summer of 2008, Rashmi Jasrasaria ’10 was leading a group of Tanzanian women in a discussion about HIV prevention, …
Issue: November-December 2009
Football 2022: Harvard 35-Cornell 28
… Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Playing on the road last weekend against an Ivy bottom-feeder, the … to a seemingly insurmountable lead, then frittered most of it away. In a result that hung in the balance until the … Yes, there was difference in the details, but the conquest of lightly regarded Cornell last Friday night at nearly …
Brevia
… Town and Gown The section on capital projects in the 2020 edition of Harvard’s annual “Town Gown Report” to the City of … of stock. Coursera was established as a for-profit enterprise; edX is a nonprofit consortium of member universities …
Issue: May-June 2021
Sharing Stories
… photographs,” explains Leslie Tuttle ’72. “You engage, and the photograph should show something of your relationship to the people in it.” A social … “and see the world from a different perspective.” She was offered a job documenting agricultural projects in rural …
Issue: May-June 2016
Open Book: Discerning a Blink
… Tracy K. Smith ’94 —winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Life on Mars , her third poetry collection, and professor of creative writing at Princeton—has now crafted a …
Issue: March-April 2015
“Living Underwater”: Harvard’s Inaugural Black Commencement
… The Black Graduate Student Alliance held its inaugural Black … four student orators, each reflecting a different dimension of the black student experience. Near the end of the … award, not listed on the program, was presented by surprise to the master of ceremonies, Lisa Coleman, the …
Harvard Human-Behavior Initiative Funded
… The University announced today that the Pershing Square … by Bill (William A.) Ackman ’88, M.B.A.’92, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, and Karen Ackman, … Square Foundation has supported social investment enterprises aiming to alleviate rural poverty in Latin America and …
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
Sharks, Fiction, and Wall Street
… If research is essential to fiction, then the new thriller Top Producer by Norb Vonnegut ’80, … adviser to wealthy clients. “I didn’t start with the idea of writing a mystery,” he says. “I just tried to tell the … Ocean Tank filled with live sea creatures. At the height of the festivities, Charlie momentarily disappears, and is …
Issue: November-December 2009
Wood into Art
… A music stand of East Indian rosewood, with maple laminated veneers curved … clef, stands rooted in a solid base so that it leans toward the musician with assurance. It expresses the remarkable integration of art and utility in the one-of-a-kind pieces by furniture …
Issue: January-February 2015
Crimson Ties
… decided it was time to go to sleep—having been up since the day before. Although I have pulled my fair share of all-nighters to finish assignments, this time I had stayed up talking with one of my roommates. My roommates and I have shared many late …
Issue: July-August 2010
Brevia
… Her Honor, Honored The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L ’59, LL.D. ’11, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, returns to campus to receive the … Samuel Tak Lee, of the Hong Kong-based Prudential Enterprise, an international developer. The funds will support a …
Issue: March-April 2015
TurboVote: “Netflix” for Voter Registration
… life 3,000 miles away from home, registering to vote was the last thing on freshman Bonnie Lei’s mind after arriving … Harvard. But when Lei walked into University Hall to drop off her study card last week, all she had to do to register … founder Seth Flaxman, M.P.P. ’11, describes as the “Netflix of voting” —Lei registered within minutes, and will soon …
Drat Those Vandals!
… As the keeper for the meantime of “The College Pump” column, Primus V naturally cares about the well-being of the genuine article, which sits massively in the Old Yard …
Issue: March-April 2009