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Langdell Remodels, Tomes in Transit
… in Langdell Hall in preparation for a major remodeling of the building. "We had to decide whether to remodel piecemeal … or all at once," says Harry Martin, librarian and professor of law. "Piecemeal would have taken four years and …
Talk, Part II: "Life is Not a Check-List"
… In separate ways, in the Baccalaureate and Commencement afternoon speeches, on … J.K. Rowling addressed students’ drive for success and fear of failure—a fear that can divert them from fulfilling lives. (The second half of Rowling’s powerfully personal speech, titled “The Fringe …
Issue: July-August 2008
What Stress Reveals
… Evolution, the fossil record shows, sometimes proceeds in sudden leaps. Millions of years of stasis can end abruptly with multiple changes in forms …
Issue: July-August 2008
Home Ground
… Simon and I are sitting in the Lowell House dining hall. It is "Mexican Fiesta" night … once a week." On a Friday afternoon at one, I race out of history class and head toward Garden Street to meet my … is late. Finally I spot the blue station wagon. I hop out of the space and into the car while she parks; we kiss …
Commencement Confetti
… Class Honorand John P. “Jack” Reardon, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association since 1990 (and earlier, in a … to commission a formal portrait. When they sprang the surprise on Reardon at a formal class gathering on Monday …
Issue: July-August 2010
Not Holding Out for a Hero
… Cliff Chiang ’96 can still name the first four comics he ever read— Uncanny X-Men, Alpha … Flight, Cloak & Dagger, and Fantastic Four —the adventures of caped crusaders and mutant teens which, in the summer of 1983, he pored over in the back seat on a family road …
Issue: September-October 2015
Poet Laura Kasischke and Orator Allen Counter To Speak at Literary Exercises
… The director of The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, professor of neurology S. Allen Counter, and Laura Kasischke, …
Fiction in Counterpoint
… In 2005, while waiting to pay in the Bob Slate stationery store in Harvard Square, Thomas P. … later, the doodling has evolved into Wolf’s first work of fiction, the recent novel Sound, published under the pen … on radios (especially hip-hop), play-by-play broadcasts of New York Yankees baseball games, and characters’ unspoken …
Issue: September-October 2012
Improvisational Prodigy
… The epiphany came early. Until middle school, Malcolm … jazz today,” Campbell says. In fact, he’s playing a lot of jazz today, and playing it rather well. The Malcolm … day--and those hours fall inside the curriculum. He is part of the third class to enroll in a five-year, joint …
Issue: July-August 2009
Town-Hall Meetings Report on Harvard Library Reorganization
… The changing information landscape makes change at Harvard … preeminent academic research library—inevitable. As part of the Harvard Library’s ongoing transition to a new … on Thursday, January 19. (The Library has released an official transcript of the presentation .) In their …
For Radcliffe: A "Founding Dean"
… Neil L. Rudenstine. Photo by Marc Halevi/Harvard News Office From the moment Harvard University and Radcliffe College … would merge and form the Radcliffe Institute, the identity of the institute's first dean became a paramount …
Extracurriculars
… Special Events http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice 617-496-2222 March 10; March 24; and March 31, at 4 p.m. The 2014 Norton Lectures by Herbie Hancock. The series, “The …
Issue: March-April 2014
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: November-December 2004
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
Kevin Eggan
… Kevin Eggan Photograph by Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Last year Kevin Eggan was a Junior Fellow at Harvard. He met developmental biologist Douglas Melton, of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and the two decided to …
Issue: May-June 2006