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Curricle, the Course Catalog Matrix
… Harvard’s course offerings used to take the form of thick paper catalogs, filled with numbers and … when certain kinds of transformations happen, fields that rise, fields that fall,” Schnapp continues. “So, in a sense, …
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 …
Fifteen Percent of Immortality
… Andrew Wylie ’70 was trying to get a job as a book editor. “They would ask what I was reading,” Wylie says, “and I would … to sit around reading the bestseller list--the bound form of daytime television.” Wylie’s publishing credentials were … in French literature but for his brash political blunder of trashing one of his thesis advisers in the thesis itself. …
Issue: July-August 2010
Harvard Club of Boston Sued by Waitstaff
… The Harvard Club of Boston is being sued by its waitstaff for alleged violations of the Massachusetts tips law. At the request of three … there is no paid sick leave in the first year; it rises to five days after one year of service and 10 days …
Off the Shelf
… The Future of Faith , by Harvey Cox, Hollis professor of divinity (HarperOne, $25.99). The retiring … on the decline of dogma and formal Christianity, and the rise of a new “Age of the Spirit.” “To Everything There …
Issue: September-October 2009
William Giannobile Named Dean of Harvard School of Dental Medicine
… and oral regenerative medicine, will succeed Bruce Donoff as the dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM), Harvard …
The Legal Olympian
… Cass Sunstein ’75, J.D. ’78, has been regarded as one of the country’s most influential and adventurous legal … economic growth, and preserve the system of free enterprise, but also to create “a floor below which human lives …
Issue: January-February 2015
The Faculty Faces Its Future
… 18 new faculty searches this academic year—bringing the total to an eye-popping 66—it was a tangible sign that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has weathered the coronavirus … bills. Building and occupancy, dining, and other costs will rise accordingly. Financial-aid spending, reduced by $36 …
Issue: January-February 2022
Yesterday’s News
… 1923 The Bulletin reports that Archibald MacLeish, LL.B. ’19, … education editor, associate editor, and circulation manager of a new magazine due to appear February 24— Time. 1928 Both … for perhaps the first time in its history. Snow sculptures rise around the Yard, and so many celebrants take to the …
Issue: January-February 2018
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 …
Surplus Surprise…and the Endowment’s Evolution
… The University’s financial report for the fiscal year ended … more light on the endowment, following the September news of a 10 percent investment return during fiscal 2018 … noted, expenses for operating and occupying buildings have risen as Harvard has conducted the largest capital-spending …
Issue: January-February 2019
The Press Professor
… Nicholas Lemann ’76 seems an unlikely candidate for the role of higher-education reformer. Best known as a … in the school’s lobby: “Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, …
Issue: September-October 2005
Capital Costs
… The dimensions of Harvard’s current building … and land—the latter principally in Allston. The sharp rise since 2000 is made more graphic when five-year averages are calculated: that figure rises from $78.8 million in the first period, 1986-1990, to …
Issue: March-April 2006
Harvard Professors Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
… Thirteen Harvard faculty members were elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) this week, including half a dozen whose work has been profiled in Harvard Magazine : Dan Barouch began developing …
The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang
… In the summer of 1895 , in the Indian Territory that became Oklahoma, a ragtag gang of five teenaged boys—all black, Native American, or of …
Issue: March-April 2012