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Harvard Portrait: Catherine Brekus
… “Let your women keep silence in the churches,” declares Paul in Corinthians 14:34. Catherine Brekus ’85 specializes in hearing the voices of America’s early female religious leaders, nearly lost to history—a casualty of neglect, or sometimes a more deliberate excision from the …
Issue: September-October 2015
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal Exhibitions Dance Nature and Science Film Music Theater Seasonal The Farmers Market at Harvard … markets, organized by Harvard University Dining Services, offer fresh produce, herbs, baked goods, and other delights, … 12:30-6 p.m. Outside the Science Center, at the corner of Oxford and Kirkland streets. In Allston: Wednesdays, 3-7 …
Issue: September-October 2008
Dividing Lines
… These books could not be more timely. In the fifth year of … justice-as-fairness implied by that commitment. Their enterprise is one of ideas, which they hope will influence broader …
Yale Honors Harvardians
… 311th Commencement, and four went to Harvard affiliates. The citations below were read aloud by Yale president Richard C. Levin. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian Robert Darnton ’60, G ’68, … the National Humanities Medal , is a foremost scholar of the history of the book—and a leading advocate of …
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
Harvard Basketball's Unlikely MVP
… In the summer of 2017, men’s basketball assistant coach Brian … He looked up to see Justin Bassey ’20 smiling back at him. The encounter was pure coincidence—Eskildsen’s vacation with … coach Tommy Amaker prizes in perimeter defenders. The son of Thai and Nigerian immigrants, Bassey also had straight As …
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
Brevia
… House Renewal: Old Leverett Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael D. Smith announced in … renovation of Old Quincy (scheduled to begin this June), the College’s next pilot project for renewal of all … and veterinary care.” Encouraging Innovation New Enterprise Associates (NEA), a venture-capital fund, is backing …
Issue: March-April 2012
Post-Season’s End
… Sunday afternoon, with a little over three minutes left in their matchup with St. John’s University in the second round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament (WNIT), the … in Harvard’s opening-round victory at the University of New Hampshire , the freshman floor general had set the …
Harvard and Latin America
… and Europe, President Drew Faust is extending her tour of the Crimson Commonwealth to Latin America, with a … trip to Chile and Brazil. University officials traveling with her have posted a dispatch from …
Brevia
… collections—Fogg, Sackler, and Busch-Reisinger— come together for the first time in the Harvard Art Museum exhibit … (top), curators have found opportunity in juxtapositions of art from distant cultural traditions. The influence of Classical works on representations of the human body can …
Issue: November-December 2008
Chapter & Verse
… Marty Mazzone writes: “My mother used to say, as fast as she could, ‘The high uffum … it for us on the spot. Can anyone identify the origin of this very strange, unGoogle-able phrase?” John Sundquist requests the origin of the assertion, “Love is the determined caring for the …
Issue: January-February 2010
Hiram S. Hunn Awards
… Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards from the College’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid for their volunteer work: …
Issue: November-December 2016
Extracurriculars
… Listings by category: Seasonal Theater Dance Nature and Science Libraries Exhibitions Dance … 8 p.m. To celebrate its 150th anniversary (see " 150 Years of Glee "), the Harvard Glee Club offers the world premiere of Dominick Argento’s Apollo in …
Issue: March-April 2008
Nicholas Stephanopoulos
… Stephanopoulos was a second-year law student at Yale when the Supreme Court ruled—unsatisfactorily, he believed—on the … Congressional districts and left unresolved the question of whether the courts should have a say in political … gerrymandering. For Stephanopoulos, now Kirkland & Ellis professor of law, the case was a game-changer: election law, …
Issue: September-October 2021