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College Admits 4.9 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2024
… The College has admitted 1,980 of 40,248 applicants to the class of 2024 (895 of whom were admitted through early action in …
Labor of Love
… Fred Crafts ’50 was six when in 1935 his father first took him hunting on Monomoy, which juts into Nantucket Sound “at the elbow of Cape Cod some 70 miles southeast of Boston,” as he puts it in the introduction to his first …
Issue: May-June 2016
Accelerating the Application of Biomedical Discoveries
… The Blavatnik Family Foundation, led by Len Blavatnik, … ’89, has given $50 million to expedite the translation of basic-science discoveries made at Harvard into practical … or a collaboration with an existing commercial enterprise. In the case of life-sciences inventions that might …
Rethinking the Walls
… In the second-floor lobby of Hawes Hall: a large portrait of … that he missed art on campus in his M.B.A. days and was surprised at how many students and business colleagues did not …
Issue: January-February 2013
President Faust on the Corporation: Stirrings of Change?
… During the regularly scheduled Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) … the University and FAS in particular, discussion has arisen about how budgets were made and spending priorities …
Mary Ingraham Bunting
… When a group of Radcliffe students in the early 1960s complained to Mary Ingraham Bunting about … standard tools of domesticity—vacuum cleaners and sewing machines—as well as apartments for junior-faculty families …
Issue: March-April 2006
Birth of a Feminist
… girl even if I felt more like a displaced adolescent. My mother had advised me to study home economics at Brooklyn … been right. The author's photograph in the Radcliffe class of 1958's Freshman Register Photograph courtesy of Ann R. … hours later I would join the 266 other girls who would comprise the class of '58. Yes, all the publications of the …
Issue: March-April 2005
The Buddies in the Boat
… Olmsted’s recurring dream: “I’m back at Harvard,” said the former Crimson lightweight oarsman, “and I go down to … row anymore—you’re 70 years old! You’ve got to get out of the boathouse!’” But this past weekend, the 70-year-old … Olmsted was once again stroking for Harvard. Rowing out of Newell Boathouse in a borrowed Harvard shell with crimson …
The Urban Landscaper
… red hair going every which way and his designer black clothes rumpled, Michael Van Valkenburgh, 61, looks like a contradiction: an absent-minded hipster professor. A professor and designer he is—the Eliot professor … doesn’t matter much to Van Valkenburgh. Its order arises instead from the efforts of its designers to realize …
Issue: November-December 2013
The SIGnboard: SIG Snapshot
… If you don’t think “agriculture” when you think “Harvard,” the members of Harvard Alumni for Agriculture ( … horizons. Launched in 2011, this Shared Interest Group—one of the Harvard Alumni Association’s almost 50 SIGs—seeks to …
Issue: March-April 2014
Climate Change Solutions?
… Thanks in part to photographs of shrinking glaciers, news reports on the devastation caused by fierce storms, and the Nobel … plants. It might also, in theory, benefit coral reefs. The rise in CO 2 levels has made the oceans more acidic, a …
Issue: May-June 2008
A Different Kind of Triathlete
… cooking Thai food from scratch, souping up old cars from the junk heap, or even completing a triathlon. Jayne Williams '85, author of Slow Fat Triathlete (Marlowe/Avalon) wants you to get a … on. A few years back, Williams was both injured and out of shape. Dabbling in college basketball had left her with a …
Issue: September-October 2004
Cambridge 02138
… A Note to Readers The “7 Ware Street” column does not appear in this issue, … decided it was important to make space available for more of your letters to the editor, of which there were … disease (COVID, anyone?), global warming, sea-level rise, species extinction, aggravated by Man’s unfortunate …
Issue: January-February 2021
An Aftermath to Avoid
… Looking back to 1989, it seems incredible that when the grounds of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo were valued at more than the … while the absence of inflation hid the danger. As the crises developed, both countries became caught in a liquidity …
Issue: July-August 2010
“You Need to Move”
… Robert Verchick, J.D. ’89, professes environmental law at Loyola University and is a … in New Orleans, providing an up-close-and-personal view of the threats from climate change: rising seas, more powerful … locals call them, have been increasing because of sea level rise. Today the region experiences 10 tidal floods per year. …
Issue: July-August 2023