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Boosting Science as Sequestration Looms
… The American Association for the Advancement of Science … president Drew Faust was among those greeting the hundreds of AAAS members involved in the organization’s mission to …
Harvard Seeks Partner for Enterprise Research Campus
… On Friday, The Harvard Allston Land Company (HALC ), the entity responsible for developing the University’s “Enterprise Research Campus” (ERC) commercial zone, plans to send … Boston’s development authority include: 400,000 square feet of office/lab space; 250,000 square feet of hotel/conference …
Atwood’s Tavern
… show goes live at Atwood’s Tavern in East Cambridge, one of the only bars in Greater Boston devoted to American roots … and singer Sean Staples, are frequent performers, but fans of the art form will also find a rotating cast of bluegrass …
Issue: March-April 2020
Harvard at Dusk
… been my favorite time to walk around Harvard’s campus. The windows of our brick buildings reflect the hazy pink sky with the clarity of still water. The campus has usually quieted down from the …
Brotherly Love
… In The Big House , George Howe Colt ’76 mined family memory in a bestselling portrait of a beloved summer home. Now, in Brothers: On His Brothers … believed Harry could do anything, I wouldn’t have been surprised if the car had somehow started, the garage door had …
Issue: January-February 2013
Sleuths in Love
… Flattened by a cold in 1998, Eric Lerner ’71, then a Hollywood screenwriter, picked up a biography of Allan Pinkerton, founder of the first detective agency in the United States. Three …
Issue: May-June 2008
Between Nature and Culture
… As part of a celebration of a century of the teaching of landscape architecture at Harvard, a large gathering at the School of Design considered how Holliston, …
Daniel Aaron Sampler
… Sinclair Lewis April 16: Join Day Tuttle (Smith College theater department), who has planned a visit to South Williamstown to discuss dramatization of Kingsblood Royal. We arrive at “Thorvale” (large spacious white house inside 800 acres of hilly land at the base of the Taconic Trail). Lewis …
Issue: November-December 2015
Football 2019: Harvard 35, Cornell 22
… No matter what happens during the remainder of this season, the 2019 Harvard football team has accomplished something neither of its two immediate predecessors did: beating Cornell. On …
Apocrypha Now
… What is a heterodox text like the Acts of Philip doing in an orthodox bastion like Mount … Religious literature flourished in the first centuries of the Christian era, Bovon explains. The organized church …
"You Foolish Parents..."
… Parents could find guidance about what sort of allowance to provide their Harvard-bound children in the "Palmer Pamphlet." Professor George H. Palmer surveyed the class of 1887 by …
Toward a “Modified Honor Code”?
… At the April 2 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting, … where discussion about administrative investigations of resident deans’ e-mail accounts dominated the day’s business , dean of undergraduate education Jay M. …
Alone on Harvard’s Campus
… warm day, I turned in my history and literature thesis and celebrated with friends. Now, I sit alone in a … America followed suit, sending millions of students scrambling to pack their belongings, finish … many schools have extended exceptions to a tiny subset of students who cannot go home. Students remaining on campus …
Tiny Brontës
… At top is a page , actual size, of a miniature manuscript book, written with a sharp eye and a steady hand and stitched together in 1830 by Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855). The page is … so that ordinary people may read it. It is the beginning of a novelette Brontë called “An interesting passage in the …
Issue: January-February 2012
Thesis Talk
… Last spring, when words like "thesis," "Commencement," and "post-graduate" began seeping into my heretofore unfazed, live-in-the-semester college-kid vocabulary, I realized that I was at the beginning of the end of my undergraduate career. T minus one year and …
Issue: September-October 2002