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Harvard and Higher Education in Vietnam
… On the agenda for President Barack Obama’s visit to Vietnam … party for the Fulbright University Vietnam : the first nonprofit, academically independent institution of higher education in the country. Its development was …
Programmed for Success?
… Harvard men’s basketball player Thomas Mannix ’81 recalls, the team arrived in Hawaii for the Rainbow Classic amid a year of transition. That season, Ivy League freshmen had become … had scheduled early-season matchups with the University of Massachusetts, Boston College, South Carolina, Stanford, …
Alumni Learning, Online
… through HarvardX for Alumni, a spring experiment with the University’s online learning partnership. Beginning on … edX platform: Poetry in America , with Elisa New, Cabot professor of American literature; The Ancient Greek Hero , with …
Issue: March-April 2014
Save Yourself
… As the Obama administration advances a stimulus approach it … to focus on an opposite strategy: how to break the cycle of debt and begin to build savings. In recent years, the … lead to immediate homelessness. Peter Tufano, Coleman professor of financial management at Harvard Business School, …
Issue: March-April 2009
An Allston Metamorphosis?
… totaling 530,000 square feet above ground, with another 165,000 square feet of working space below grade, and additional underground … and other services. The entire complex, which will comprise nearly a million square feet, represents the vanguard …
Issue: November-December 2006
Alumni Awards
… The HAA Clubs and SIGs [Shared Interest Groups] Committee … be presented to the following recipients at the HAA Board of Directors winter meeting on February 2. Eugenio (Henny) G. Herbosa, M.M.Sc. ’85, of St. Louis. Herbosa has served for many years as secretary …
Issue: March-April 2012
Chapter and Verse
… Edmund Rosenkrantz writes, “The views of Grant [ Vita, January-February, page 42 ] … Hamlin Garland several times uses the phrase ‘man of iron’ in quotation marks, ventriloquizing contemporaries. …
Issue: March-April 2019
An “Emotional Rollercoaster”
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Last Wednesday, Tommy Amaker, the Stemberg Family head coach of men’s basketball, sat on a leather couch in the … for winter snowfall. Why was the coach so loose ahead of the season’s most pivotal moment? It was strategic. With …
Harvard Commencement 2017
… Sherry Turkle ’69, Ph.D. ’76, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé professor of the social studies of science and technology at MIT, and …
Issue: May-June 2017
Chapter & Verse
… me your song. Teach me to sing. For when I am alone, it is then I'll need the melody." Alan Grometstein asks, after fruitless search through the published works of Gertrude Stein, who said about modern art: "It looks … our previous answer (September-October 1999). In Guidelines of Faith (1980), Satoru Izumi states, "The water of the …
With Our Thanks
… four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on our readers’ behalf during 2017, and and to … Leslie Brown Michael Zuckerman ’10, J.D. ’17—past president of the Harvard Law Review , now clerking for a federal judge … deep strengths. Richard D. Kahlenberg Photograph courtesy of Richard D. Kahlenberg Richard D. Kahlenberg ’85, J.D. …
Issue: January-February 2018
Twin Passions
… Both these elegant little books on science and religion are by eminent Harvard professors emeriti —much-revered researchers, writers, and … dominant, defunct, or threatened; and we are not surprised to find the master of the ant-world lingering, …
Issue: May-June 2007
Pleasure by Proxy
… so sure you’d enjoy it, so you dig up some information on the Web and even watch a couple of videos. You recollect the times you’ve been on ships, and … way to answer this question: ask anyone who has just gotten off a cruise boat—a total stranger is fine. That way, you’ll …
Issue: March-April 2010
Football 2017: Harvard 41, Georgetown 2
… Football has three phases: offense, defense and special teams. When all three are … for Harvard as it rolled over overmatched Georgetown 41-2. The victory ran the Crimson’s overall 2017 record to 2-1. (Harvard is 1-0 in the Ivy League.) The Hoyas, members of the Patriot League, dropped to 1-3. This was the …
Mentorship
… Harvard Magazine enables us to mentor a new generation of writers. We’ve had the privilege of working with some remarkable students over the years—many …