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… The Harvard Corporation has begun the search for the … L. Rudenstine. In mid July, it announced the membership of the search committee and outlined initial steps the committee would take to solicit both nominees and views of the University's future. Under Harvard's charter, the …
Some Classical Profanity
… A glance at the 50 most popular volumes in the Loeb Classical Library--the venerable series of facing-page English translations of Greek and Latin classics now published by Harvard …
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Directors
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and of the new elected directors … Angeles. Bedrosian chair in governance and the public enterprise; director, Bedrosian Center on Governance, Price School …
“No Pressure or Anything, but We’re Counting on You”
… Designers have the answers to “the most important question we all face,” … TED curator Chris Anderson told imminent Graduate School of Design graduates on Wednesday. “Can the coming world of 10 billion people survive and flourish without consuming …
An Argument for Music
… The first movement of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto ended, … Bell, whose dazzling solos and severe good looks had fired the crowd, pulled a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped … the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Already, Ross heard hints of Nagano’s signature sound: a cool, elegant balance. But …
Issue: July-August 2008
First Nights
… Cat-calls and hisses succeeded the playing of the first few bars, and then ensued a battery of screams, countered by a foil of applause. We warred over …
Nixon in China Creators Re-create
… The three Harvard College alumni behind the acclaimed 1987 … Theater on November 15 to discuss the opera as part of Harvard’s yearlong 375 th anniversary celebration , which kicked off with a party in the Yard on October 14. President Drew …
Crimson Idol?
… Molly DeWolf Swenson ’10, formerly of Winthrop House and the Opportunes, recently appeared on American Idol , on the January 26 broadcast of Milwaukee auditions for the Fox TV show. Her mellifluous …
University People
… first executive vice president, effective September 1. As the “principal ranking operating officer” at the University, he will oversee financial, … Sachs partner since 1998, was most recently global head of investment management (and now becomes a board member at …
Issue: September-October 2008
Studying Schooling
… In 2006, Thomas Kane went to Joel Klein, chancellor of New York City’s public schools, with some unsettling news: teachers from the New York City Teaching Fellows program (which supplied … and kept in those students who changed schools. “To our surprise,” Peterson says, “the nonprofits did much worse than …
Issue: January-February 2009
College to Impose Sanctions on Final Club Members
… Citing their history of gender discrimination and negative … announced in an e-mail today that Harvard will ban members of historically male final clubs and other unrecognized, single-gender social groups from holding …
Harvard and Life Sciences Partners to Build a Center for Biological Therapies
… A Harvard-led consortium of Boston-area healthcare, biotech, and biopharma … institutions will open a $50-million nonprofit facility for the development of cell- and gene-based therapies, the … to open it by the end of 2021. One side of it will comprise cleanrooms for manufacturing therapies for clinical …
Three Faculty Members, Two Alumnae Win MacArthurs
… The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation conferred … physicist); and Matthew Nock (a psychologist whose studies of suicide and self-injury were featured in this recent Harvard Magazine profile) . Alumnae who were recognized include Jeanne Gang, …
Football: Harvard 14, Dartmouth 13
… end last Friday night at Harvard Stadium, a reporter from The Harvard Crimson turned to her colleagues in the press … in Harvard’s 142-season football history. In a showdown of Ivy unbeatens, the Crimson shrugged off an epic goal-line stand, scored two touchdowns in the …
Questions about Recruiting
… (NCAA) rules governing recruiting, appeared March 2 on the front page of the New York Times Sunday sports section. “Harvard has … “tarnish the University’s sterling reputation.” University officials vigorously disputed the allegation that Harvard …
Issue: May-June 2008