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Summers on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
… Street Journal reprints a blog post by Eliot University Professor (and former University president) Lawrence H. Summers. Summers, who served as Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001, writes that a noble …
William O. Taylor
… We note with sadness the death on May 1, at home in Boston, of William O. Taylor ’54, chairman emeritus of the Boston Globe , where he had served with distinction …
Issue: July-August 2011
Video “Training Ground” to Debut in Widener
… A state-of-the art video-capture studio will make its debut in Widener … this fall, equipped with green screens and 4K capability—the highest resolution format available—to serve as both a … technology into their teaching, according to University officials. Located just one floor below a rare Gutenberg …
Alumni Gifts
… The thirty-fifth-reunion class of 1977 broke the all-time … “an extraordinary $68.7 million” in contributions as of May 23, reported University Treasurer James F. Rothenberg …
Issue: July-August 2012
Ethan Lasser
… When he put the two paintings together, on facing walls of a Harvard Art … seroual trousers, and Théodore Chassériau’s 1850 depiction of actual Arab horsemen carrying their dead from the …
Issue: May-June 2016
Crimson Olympian
… years in Queens, he says, “I didn’t measure up to the high-schoolers, and track practice didn’t start until … recalls. “My older brother and sister taught me how to run off a pier and throw myself into the water. Pretty soon, I … me to Harvard and let me hang out with the team.” After offers of tuition aid, a second visit to campus in his …
Issue: May-June 2011
Outperformance Pays
… -2.7 percent and -0.5 percent results on endowment funds in the past two fiscal years, left the University dramatically better off than if the assets had declined in line with the … yielded large pay packages for a handful of investment professionals in the year ended last June 30. …
Issue: March-April 2003
Chapter & Verse
… Jacob Adler asks: “In Nishmat Ḥ ayyim (“The Breath of Life,” 1651), the Dutch rabbi Menasseh ben Israel writes of strange phenomena that supposedly occur in Asia: people …
Issue: November-December 2018
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/arts 617-495-8676 • April 29 through May 2: The annual Arts First festival hosts events throughout … 1935, Paradise Lost, by Clifford Odets, probes the effects of money and greed on family, business, and love amid a …
Issue: March-April 2010
Vote Now
… five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots, mailed out by … J.D.-M.B.A. ’04, Menlo Park, California. Partner, New Enterprise Associates. Shilla Kim-Parker ’04, M.B.A. ’09, New York …
Issue: March-April 2013
Chapter and Verse
… William Storrer hopes that someone can provide a source for the quotation, supposedly from Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West, that George reads aloud near the end of the second act of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia …
Issue: September-October 2010
John Simon
… in New York magazine—“For better or for worse, I think of myself as a highbrow”—visited Cambridge in December to discuss three recently published volumes of his collected criticism, on theater, film, and music (Applause Theatre and Cinema …
Issue: March-April 2006
Capital Planning Chief Appointed
… The University announced today that its search for a vice … Center project (a renovation and expansion of the library and archival facility, with construction of … five-year capital plan —“something that most major enterprises do”—so the Corporation can have a clear view of …
Jacqueline Rossi: “Enter to Grow in Weirdness”
… width:402] As the theme of her Ivy Oration, one of two humorous student … famous names as examples: "Take Sir Isaac Newton—he was surprised when an apple fell on his head while sitting under an …
Harvard Local,
… was women, gender, and sexuality studies and whose thesis investigated gender and Harvard final clubs, made … J. Menendez Photograph by Jim Harrison In absolving us of the burden of personal perfection, Harvard inadvertently prepared us …
Issue: July-August 2005