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Office for Faculty Development and Diversity Reports on Faculty Composition, New Family Supports for Harvard Staff
… The office, created in 2005 after the Task Forces on Women Faculty and on Women in Science and … published the first detailed data comparing the proportion of women and minority faculty members at each Harvard school …
Chapter and Verse
… Jane Arnold seeks a short story, possibly from the 1960s, about a judge known for mercilessness who goes fishing on his day off without his toupee, teeth, or ID, and is picked up for … the horrible judge they’ll face the next day (himself, of course), and they break out of jail. The next time he is …
Issue: January-February 2019
Chapter & Verse
… said, approximately, “I don’t know why so much is made of the thoughts of great men. I have had many of the same thoughts, they …
Issue: March-April 2013
Dean Murphy Moves On
… Ed.D. ’73, announced June 5 that he will step down as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in June 2001. After a year’s sabbatical, …
Football: Harvard 28, Columbia 21
… It was the week the Cubs won the World Series. So why not add to … but decisive reversion to form and Harvard took advantage of traditionally bumbling Columbia play to pile up enough … and 5-0 in Ivy League play. Thanks to Princeton’s thrashing of Penn, the Crimson is now alone in first place in the Ivy …
Football: Harvard 52, Holy Cross 3
… If college football had a mercy rule, Friday night’s game at the Stadium would have been called at halftime. In a driving rainstorm, Harvard scored on all of its first-half possessions and led Holy Cross, 49-3, at the close of the second quarter. Senior quarterback Colton Chapple, …
Chapter and Verse
… Charles Hayford writes , “One of the Beat poets, I think, perhaps Gary Snyder, wrote of walking in the mountains in late winter or early spring. …
Issue: July-August 2012
Loaded for Bear
… a late Brown field-goal try missed by inches. This year, in the Crimson’s home opener, the feisty Bears grabbed a 16-0 … Ivy champions, unbeaten last year, started feebly. The offensive unit was forced to punt twice and had two passes picked off on its first four possessions, while Brown scored on …
Issue: November-December 2005
Chapter & Verse
… “the commonest form of stupidity” (January-February). Joseph Marcus responded: “1. I plugged the Nietzsche quotation into Google Scholar, which returns gazillions of citations. One occurs in Kenneth Hart Green’s Leo Strauss …
Issue: March-April 2014
Holly Day Fair
… winter and nature at its annual Holly Day Fair. Visitors gather in the greenhouse, where a wood stove burns amid pots of homemade soups and trays of cakes, cookies, and pies. Local food vendors and artisans …
Issue: November-December 2016
A Rural Retreat
… Just 19 miles from hot and congested downtown Boston lies the bucolic town of Lincoln. Even before postwar suburbia arose, Lincoln’s … eschewed sprawl. As a result, more than 38 percent of the community is protected land. Eighty public trails, …
Issue: July-August 2017
Honoring Our Contributors
… four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf in 2016, and happily confer on … Jane Kamensky Jane Kamensky joins scholarly prowess—professor of history and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the …
Issue: January-February 2017
Football: Harvard 34, Cornell 24
… Michael Pruneau, to do battle against a Cornell team led by the Ivy League’s all-time, all-everything passer, Jeff Mathews. Mathews was Goliathlike, completing 39 of 56 passes for 472 yards—more yardage than any Harvard … had ever given up to an opposing quarterback—and a pair of touchdowns. But he was outplayed by Pruneau and a …
Two Harvard Students Named Marshall Scholars
… The 2015 class of Marshall Scholars includes Michael George ’14 (’15), of Quincy House and Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, and Anna … comparative social policy at Oxford and economic history at the London School of Economics. Hagen, an English …
Peer Schools Outperform Harvard’s Endowment
… have reported, HMC’s performance gap still looms large—and the reasons for his disappointment become clear. On October … consistent with what other endowments are reporting. As of August 31, the end of Stanford’s fiscal year, the endowment was valued at $24.8 …