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Changing Places, Changing Times
… From 1874 until 1925, Harvard undergraduates took meals in the vastness of Memorial Hall's Alumni Hall. When they departed, the place was empty most of the time; students registered, gave blood, and took …
Harvard Lecturer’s Syria Program Canceled
… current unrest in Syria has derailed a project there in which Marshall Ganz, a lecturer on public policy at … Syria, once in 2009 and again in 2010, under the auspices of the Monitor Group to explore the feasibility of launching a leadership development project for young …
College Yield Drops 3 Percent During COVID-19
… The College’s yield for the class of 2024 , or the share of admitted students who indicated that they will attend …
Roosevelt History Month
… as "Roosevelt History Month." Such major institutions as the Library of Congress, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, the Woodrow Wilson … special events or exhibits keyed to the life and work of the nation's thirty-second president. In New York City, a …
Sports Roundup
… Men’s Soccer The Crimson (12-6-0, 5-2 Ivy), undefeated at home, just … booters fell in the second round to the University of South Florida, number eight. Four players made the first … left in double overtime before falling in the opening round of post-season NCAA play. Freshman Melanie Baskind was named …
Issue: January-February 2009
Words Both Hopeful and Fateful
… As Benazir Bhutto ’73 returned to Harvard in 1989 to give the Commencement address and receive an honorary degree, … a half years before she would be freed. But Galbraith wrote of Bhutto's extraordinary life after her time as a political prisoner: In the space of twelve months, beginning in December 1987, she got …
Branded
… Today . “As Harvard prepares to confer degrees on yet another batch of graduates Thursday, academic experts scratch their heads … institution maintains its reputational dominance in an era of academic parity. But a marketer would understand the …
Issue: November-December 2005
VES’s Valedictory
… Harvard’s department of visual and environmental studies (VES) will emerge, like … new identity better reflecting what it actually does , if the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) embraces a proposal to change its …
Chapter & Verse
… Orin Tilevitz writes, “One day early in Chem 20, Professor Doering told us that if your experiment was inconsistent with your hypothesis, there must be something wrong with the experiment. … first to identify this borrowing from the first chapter of Indian Summer of a Forsyte , the second part of John …
Issue: May-June 2016
Social Innovation Challenge
… social entrepreneurs. According to her e-mail message to the community, Provost Alan Garber and a panel of faculty experts (not yet announced) will later this month … Faust and organized by Garber and William Sahlman, D’Arbeloff-M.B.A. Class of 1955 professor of business …
Brevia
… Harvard Medical School will break ground in the Longwood Medical Area in October for construction of a new, 430,000-square-foot research building consisting of laboratories and related facilities. Adjacent to the …
References to “At Odds”
… March 21 Update: The dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, announced that she …
War and Peace
… The tour guide will tell you that more secular stained … Hall than in any other building in the world. No image of Christ gazes down from these 22 gorgeous windows. … with 18 others on freshmen at their meals in the part of the edifice now called Annenberg Hall. A striding young …
Issue: January-February 2010
Throughways for Wildlife
… In the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Interstate 70 cuts from … biologists call the Mountain Corridor—a 144-mile-wide swath of mixed habitat flowing north and south between Denver and …
Issue: May-June 2011
When free isn't free...
… to our highest standards) an email information service All of those efforts entail costs; none of them generates significant revenue. We thus share the …