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… 1920 The University’s Endowment Fund campaign earns an … $4 million in pledges, prompting President Lowell to speak of an annus mirabilis in Harvard finances. 1925 A survey of seniors’ career plans indicates that only 9 percent plan …
Issue: May-June 2010
Submit an Obituary
… Obituaries in Harvard Magazine are free of charge and written by the obituaries editor, Alexandra Grimm. The information you … customarily include the following: (1) date and place of death; (2) a brief summary of career; (3) interests, …
A Rugged Start
… at Meade Stadium in Kingston, Rhode Island, players from the Rhode Island football team leaped in ecstasy at the final gun, having pulled off the season’s first shocker: a 17-10 win over perennial … whose players, coaches, and fans were jumping for joy—those of the rest of the Ivy League. The defeat at Rhode Island …
Issue: November-December 2017
Orderly Living
… In the middle ages , as now, following rules could give comfort in the chaos of life. Shown here are all six pages of an illuminated manuscript offering medical and dietary …
Issue: March-April 2012
Set to Search
… 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 …
Green Genes
… Renovation of the Fogg Art Museum complex at 32 Quincy Street got a green light this spring, signaling the beginning of a new phase for University projects in Cambridge that …
Issue: May-June 2010
Nepal in Pictures
… In thousands of photographs taken between 1975 and 2011, Kevin Bubriski has helped document the dramatic evolution of daily life in Nepal, from its years as a Hindu kingdom to …
Issue: July-August 2014
Chapter & Verse
… words attributed to Jane Austen: “Teach us that we may feel the importance of every hour, every minute, as it passes.” Eliot Kieval, intrigued by the famous assertion “I disapprove of [sometimes, disagree with ] what you say, but I will …
Issue: September-October 2013
Wealth Inequality: A Harvard Take
… In surveys of wealth-inequality perceptions and preferences conducted by Harvard Business School (HBS) associate professor Michael Norton, respondents always estimate that wealth is more equally distributed in the United States than is actually the case, and say they …
Issue: November-December 2011
Natural Baker
… As the mother of two young children, Nora Staebler Schultz ’91 … to make it for class parties. “I didn’t feel good about all of the hydrogenated oils and artificial ingredients and …
Issue: January-February 2009
Plans for Winthrop House Renewal Include Expansion
… Harvard has released broad sketches of plans for the renovation of Winthrop House ; the work is scheduled to begin in 2016 …
Raw Wood Sings
… Bob Childs, Dv ’92, Ed.M. ’93, holds a flat piece of spruce in his hands and taps it with his finger. He … It will take him some 200 hours to create a violin worthy of some of the greatest musicians in the world. But the wood must sound …
Issue: May-June 2014
What’s Up Comes Down, and Vice Versa
… secretary Stephanie Pollack, J.D. ’85, announced that the state will rebuild the Massachusetts Turnpike at ground … the existing elevated viaduct, which is currently in need of repair. The decision was the outcome of months of … Landing North, the parcel closest to its planned Enterprise Research Campus . The second, involving the purchase of …
Ambitions Realized
… During an extended period of construction constraint, as America—and academia—recover … to new levels. Harvard’s two current mega-projects, the last of their kind for a while, are useful reminders of the value …
Issue: May-June 2011
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 …