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Vigorous Immortality
… One of the best descriptions of the promise of endowments is just two words long: vigorous …
Issue: November-December 2015
Megan Marshall ’77 Wins Pulitzer for Biography
… Megan Marshall ’77, RI ’07, has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for biography for Margaret Fuller: A New American Life , an account of the nineteenth-century Cambridge-born author, journalist, critic, and pioneering advocate of women’s rights who died with her Italian revolutionary …
Winter Sports
… Men's Basketball The hoopsters (10-7, 2-2 Ivy) started well and twice … Women's Basketball Looking to repeat as Ivy champions, the netwomen (12-4, 4-0 Ivy) crushed Princeton, 78-42, and … Peljto '04 tossing in a season-high 32 points. Peljto leads the squad in scoring (20.8 points per game) and rebounding …
Issue: March-April 2003
Ashbery Accepts Harvard Arts Medal
… novels from French into English. One novel meant one month of creation. Ashbery’s work, however, did not please his American editors. They wanted bodice-rippers, not crime tales. “I had to stop … to accept the Harvard Arts Medal. Ashbery’s poetry is often called obscure or difficult—he has said that he writes …
Rhodes List Adds Two
… Mhlanga ’13, is a social-studies concentrator from Mather House and Bulawayo; he was just named one of the College’s "Fifteen Most Interesting Seniors" by the … sister, astrophysicist Shazrene Mohamed ’04, won a Rhodes of her own in 2004, making the Mohameds the first pair of …
Do-Overs
… Last April 27, toward the end of an academic year when protests about racial … his own, Yale president Peter Salovey announced, “The name of Calhoun College will remain.” His letter to the community …
Issue: November-December 2016
"What makes learning possible"
… President Drew Faust addressed the graduating seniors on Tuesday afternoon at the … Ed[ucation] tells you that, and I’m quoting, “the aim of a liberal education is…to disorient” and then “re-orient” … anticipated. So, what can we take from this heavy dose of disorientation? How has it provided you with a unique and …
Issue: July-August 2010
Wrapping Up Harvard’s Winter Sports
… an unusual scene on March 13: a Yale-Princeton battle for the Ivy League basketball title—at Harvard’s Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson men had lost to the host of the Ivy League tournament in their last two … ’24. With that loss, the 40-year Harvard coaching career of Kathy Delaney-Smith concluded (see sidebar for in-depth …
Issue: May-June 2022
Hiram Hunn Award Winners
… Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the College’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, at an October 14 ceremony. …
Issue: November-December 2011
Rebel Lawyer
… With the sun finally fading on a blazing spring afternoon in Los … the UCLA campus, where he teaches law. He has spent most of his life in this city, first as the child of Mexican immigrants, and later as a “wild-ass radical …
Issue: September-October 2018
Seven Harvardians Win MacArthur "Genius" Awards in 2018
… Seven Harvard alumni have been named fellows by the MacArthur Foundation this year. The fellowship, commonly … communities and society.” The Harvard-affiliated recipients of the $625,000 “no strings attached” grant are as follows: … communicate the nuances, ambiguities, and multiple meanings of texts in musical form.” Among his early works is Second …
Allston planning options outlined
… & Partners on its long-term visions for an Allston campus. The report is presented here (as a PDF), as well as the official letter from President Lawrence H. Summers , and the …
Worry, a Powerful Driver
… (Random House, $35) takes readers inside Wall Street and the White House, but does not overlook the former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury's recollections of his college days, as in … was capable of doing the work at Harvard. To everyone's surprise, especially mine, my grades that year were good — …
Issue: March-April 2004
How To Harvard—Advice From 14 College Alumni
… H arvard Magazine asked recent reunioners to reflect on their undergraduate experience: what they wish they had … they have for current undergraduates on making the most of their time at Harvard. “I wish I’d taken even more CS classes.” Susan D. Wojcicki ’90 is the CEO of YouTube. She concentrated in history and literature. I …
Roosevelts at Harvard: A Family Matter
… James Roosevelt, Franklin's father, received his ll.b. from Harvard Law School in 1851. … were registered in the College, including three sets of brothers. FDR's Harvard progeny included three of his four sons—James '30, Franklin Jr. '37, and John …