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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
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
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 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
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
The Harvard Forest Dioramas
… Outside the Harvard Fisher Museum in Petersham, Massachusetts, nearly 4,000 acres of birch, oak, and maple trees grow among rivers, rocks, and the foundations of colonial homesteads in the Harvard Forest. Inside the …
Issue: May-June 2023
Finding the Movie
… Julian Breece ’03 remembers feeling haunted by a picture on the wall of his childhood home in Washington, D.C.—a photograph of Alvin Ailey, signed by the legendary choreographer …
Issue: May-June 2023
Amid Tradition, a Symbol of Change
… The New York Times profiles Nicole M. Parent ’93, the first female president of the Harvard Club of New York City, which did not even …
In the Crosshairs
… During the last election campaign, Donald J. Trump fulminated … investigating campuses, and perhaps challenging the system of accreditation (which determines student eligibility for … reflecting another strain of thought, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) polemicist Max Eden in December called …
Issue: May-June 2025
Off the Shelf
… The Big Myth, by Naomi Oreskes, Lea professor of the history … powerful political centralization, state-owned enterprises, or industrial policy. A timely and lucid guide. A …
Issue: May-June 2023
Climate-Change Solutions
… Against the backdrop of student-led protests urging divestment from … scene: impacts in terms of droughts, wildfires, sea-level rise, heavy flooding, and precipitation.” On the other hand, …
The Storyteller
… his nervous first meeting with his faculty adviser, professor of mathematical statistics Frederick Mosteller. At the end, … meeting, above, illustrates both. Readers may be surprised by some of Light's discoveries about diversity. …
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 …
In Praise of Giraffes
… ’64’s conflict-resolution work has taken him from apartheid-torn South Africa to meetings in Geneva, Switzerland, … Libyan revolution in 1969 and later to the northern border of what was then South Vietnam. Today Graham says of this … part of a person instead of just the head part.” No surprise, then, that Stick Your Neck Out, in addition to …
Issue: November-December 2005