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Bard in the Yard
… Recently, it was announced that a new copy of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, a collection of his plays published in 1623, was discovered on the Scottish isle of Bute. Fittingly, the Folio—one of just …
The First Jubilee
… On November 29, 1998, with the papal bull Incarnationis Mysterium , Pope John Paul II officially declared the Great Jubilee of the year 2000. According to Catholic doctrine, believers …
Center of Attention
… Amid Harvard’s vast Commencement spectacle, the formal center—on the dais constructed beside Memorial … still the venue for small gestures that go to the heart of the University and its people. Herewith, a close reading of some 2011 events not prescribed by the “Form of …
Issue: July-August 2011
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
Yesterday’s News
… Mount Auburn Street for use as regular dormitories. (Today they are parts of Adams House, now in its final stages of renewal.) 1925 An Overseers Committee recommends the …
Issue: March-April 2025
Softball Ace
… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2pdQmfBe9Y width:402] The ace of the Harvard Crimson's softball pitching staff , Rachel … ’12, shows how she grips and throws her best pitches: the rise ball, chamge-up, and curve. Coach Jenny Allard analyzes …
Issue: May-June 2012
The Faculty Resumes Growing
… The 2021-2022 report on faculty trends, one of two parts of … to 87 (12 percent). •The number of non-ladder faculty has risen by 44 percent , to 356 full-time equivalents in the …
The “Bilingual” G.M.
… It’s not quite 10,000 men of Harvard, but scanning the Cleveland Browns organizational chart at times must feel … of football operations with the Philadelphia Eagles. His rise has been meteoric. After graduation, the …
Issue: September-October 2020
Off the Shelf
… Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual … As she demonstrated in Mother Nature , the author (professor of anthropology emerita at the University of …
Issue: May-June 2009
Surplus Surprise…and the Endowment’s Evolution
… The University’s financial report for the fiscal year ended … more light on the endowment, following the September news of a 10 percent investment return during fiscal 2018 … noted, expenses for operating and occupying buildings have risen as Harvard has conducted the largest capital-spending …
Issue: January-February 2019
Chapter & Verse
… source for a story about two patients so frustrated by their psychiatrist’s silence in response to whatever they said that they conspired to get a rise out of him. They made up an elaborate dream full of bizarre …
Issue: July-August 2014
Wired for Life
… Forget the stereotypes of new technology being only for younger … Retirement communities generally are also responding to the rise in on-line literacy with a two-pronged effort: support …
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 …
Harvard Club of Boston Sued by Waitstaff
… The Harvard Club of Boston is being sued by its waitstaff for alleged violations of the Massachusetts tips law. At the request of three … there is no paid sick leave in the first year; it rises to five days after one year of service and 10 days …
Hasty Pudding Announces 2018 Man and Woman of the Year
… The Hasty Pudding theatricals has named actors Mila Kunis and Paul Rudd 2018’s Woman and Man of the Year. Kunis is best known for her role as Jackie … a film set to be released in August, and is still the voice of Meg in the animated series Family Guy. Paul Rudd …