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… students, faculty, and alumni are engaged in every facet of this enormous social transformation: advising on clean … development (a 2010 dispatch). Until an alumnus attuned to the global University provided the means for international … are so important to the University community—and the world—of today and tomorrow. Now, thanks to his support, we can …
Father and Son, and E.E. Cummings
… In the early twentieth century, life was hard for Jews in … their small Romanian town. Avrom was challenged by an official: “Are you a foreigner?” “I have lived here all my … Tecuci and came to America. They were among the millions of Jews from central Europe who arrived at that time. Many …
Artful Campus
… enriched with a significant, thought-provoking, collection of contemporary art (see “Rethinking the Walls,” January-February 2013). Now the grounds are … and lush landscaping, but with a temporary installation of four sculptures on loan from contemporary artists. On the …
Issue: November-December 2016
Fahrenthold, Whitehead, and Desmond Win Pulitzer Prizes
… transparent journalism in political campaign coverage,” The Washington Post’ s David Fahrenthold ’00 has been … Railroad , and Matthew Desmond, Loeb associate professor of the social sciences, received the award in nonfiction …
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
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 …
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
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 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
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
Chapter & Verse
… Richard Kennelly seeks a poem he saw in the late ’70s, perhaps in The Atlantic Monthly, in which an … that causes him to recall his own past and the wild rush of riding horses. Kennelly remembers the phrases “The … (or “son”), “A bum in boots they call him,” and “The smell of horse sweat.” Mark Saltveit submits two palindromes— …
Issue: July-August 2019
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
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 …
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 …
The Enterprise Research Campus, Part Two
… Tishman Speyer, the development partner that is building an Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) in Allston on property leased … from Harvard, took the first step toward construction of the second phase (phase B) of that project on April 16. …