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College Admits 4.9 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2024
… The College has admitted 1,980 of 40,248 applicants to the class of 2024 (895 of whom were admitted through early action in …
Hasty Pudding Announces 2019’s Man and Woman of the Year
… The Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) has named actors Bryce … Dallas Howard and Milo Ventimiglia its 2019 Woman and Man of the Year, the awards presented annually “to performers … have made lasting and impressive contributions to the world of entertainment.” Howard is best known for her role as …
Courses of Study
… Perusing the course catalog for first-year Harvard Medical School … that much education on how to talk with patients at the end of their lives,” he says. “Interacting with a patient and … students in the school’s M.D. program, the course was part of a first-year curriculum that concentrates on how the …
Issue: January-February 2006
Remembering Henry Cobb, Architect of CGIS
… Editor’s note: Henry Cobb ’47, M.Arch. ’49, a former professor and chair of the architecture department at the Graduate School of … up at the circular stairway to the third floor, which rises from a “pond” of shiny black stones imported from a …
A Different Kind of Triathlete
… cooking Thai food from scratch, souping up old cars from the junk heap, or even completing a triathlon. Jayne Williams '85, author of Slow Fat Triathlete (Marlowe/Avalon) wants you to get a … on. A few years back, Williams was both injured and out of shape. Dabbling in college basketball had left her with a …
Issue: September-October 2004
Questions of Character
… doing in a Harvard Business School course? And why is the professor talking about students’ “internal struggle?” … life that surrounds him.” When leaders encounter complex crises, Badaracco argues, flexibility may be more important …
Issue: July-August 2006
A Robust Decade at the Business School
… Clark’s move from Allston to Idaho—he became president of Brigham Young University-Idaho on August 1, in response to a call from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day … remains prospective. Meanwhile, international students have risen from 23 percent to 33 percent of the M.B.A. class …
Issue: September-October 2005
The Other Commons: David A. Moss
… An interview with David A. Moss , McLean professor of business administration and founder of the Tobin Project . Read the complete article, “Can America … It was enormously controversial. Ultimately, though, the rise of public education constituted a powerful competitive …
Issue: September-October 2012
Debunking the Double
… On the third day of my eight-week stint as a summer-school … one of my charges reminded me of the difficulties that can arise from sharing a bedroom at Harvard. She was compact, the … part of a Harvard College education." When clashes arise, Torrance says, "We don't have a set 'procedure'" …
Issue: September-October 2003
Off the Shelf
… A bombardier beetle, in a photograph by Eisner from the book For Love of Insects, by Thomas Eisner '51, Ph.D. '56 (Harvard … with, a bombardier beetle discharges a visible cloud of stinging juice from the rear with an audible "pop." One …
Issue: May-June 2004
Events of Note
… FILM. This April, African cinema will take center stage at the Harvard Film Archive, beginning with African Film … April 28 and 30, Senegalese director Med Hondo, recipient of this year's McMillian Fellowship for Distinguished … Filmmaking, will be at Harvard to attend screenings of his works. The series Five Modern Directors , meanwhile, …
A Matter of Style
… has infiltrated such unlikely enclaves as Hollywood and the National Football League; now it is making inroads on … to sociology. His studies provided the basis for much of his fashion philosopy. "I'm obsessed with gender and what … wear I try to juxtapose masculine and feminine, hard and soft. I like it, for example, when women wear a pair of hard …
Issue: September-October 2001
Open Book: Rough Road for Capitalism
… The financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession surprised … economists and policymakers, writes David M. Kotz ’65, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, …
Issue: January-February 2015
Trove of Tomes
… two vans from New York drove up to Langdell Library at the Law School and off-loaded about a thousand early English law texts worth … transforming the library, which already housed a collection of early legal material, into the world's most important …
The Exemplars
… Philip Keene Photograph by Jim Harrison Bertha Offenbach Fineberg Photograph by Jim Harrison The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on Commencement day, who …
Issue: July-August 2005