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… than ever —but readers have begun exploring realms beyond the printed page. Aiming to meet Harvard Magazine readers … to your suggestions. And for the first time, we can offer a print-like reading experience to international … and about the University itself. “Since the middle of the 1990s, we have become an online daily news …
Issue: March-April 2014
Grandel's Playhouse to Wax, Hasty Pudding to Wane
… Opening soon: the Market Theater. Among the blessings the new performance … confers is that undergraduate groups, faced with a shortage of boards to tread, may rent the use of the hall. The theater will be owned and operated by the …
A Better Path to High Performance
… to perform in a high-pressure situation—addressing a room of skeptical colleagues, meeting with a demanding boss, or singing for a crowd—keep calm! That, at least, is the conventional wisdom. Yet new research by social scientist Alison Wood Brooks, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business …
Issue: May-June 2014
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
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 …
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 …
"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
Peak Experiences
… Club president Vladislav Sevostianov ’19. South of Boston, the former granite quarries in Quincy offer about 100 climbs, some as high as 80 feet, with scenic …
Issue: May-June 2019
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
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
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
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 …