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Chapter and Verse
… Vann McGee would like to discover the origin of the following declension: “I am firm. You are … thesis that everyone in the field is seeking a definition of what makes us human, but that it is unwise to publish …
Issue: March-April 2010
James McAuley Awarded Marshall Scholarship
… The Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission has announced the 2012 class of 36 Marshall Scholars , who will pursue their studies in … student to win a scholarship is James K. McAuley ’12, of Currier House and Dallas, Texas, who plans to attend the …
Grill It!
… with his friend and coauthor Chris Schlesinger, founder of the East Coast Grill in Cambridge. A Montage article in Harvard Magazine explores the process of writing a cookbook with Willoughby; this video joins him …
Chapter and Verse
… More queries from the archive: “The dawgondist skaw/that a man ever saw/I saw on Vesuvius side/as I wandered one day/in the middle of May.…” (From a poem, possibly by the American artist and writer Peter Newell, describing the 1872 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.) “What was Karl Marx but Macaulay with …
Issue: May-June 2011
Exploring Entrepreneurship
… and activities at Harvard Business School is available on the Internet, where a single site ( … access to faculty and course web pages; a description of the California research center and list of cases created there; links to research tools at Baker …
Jim Yong Kim, M.D. ’91, Ph.D. ’93, Nominated to Lead World Bank
… The Associated Press has reported that President Barack … Jim Yong Kim, M.D. '91, Ph.D. '93, as the next president of the World Bank (a post for which Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Eliot University …
Chapter and Verse
… novel “contains a dissertation on death and dying with the first line, ‘Death is the beginning, not the end.’ It … humble heart.” A poem containing the lines: “In the corner of the field/A boy flicks a spotted beetle from her wrist.” … woodlands lead the feet to green adventure.” The titles of a Broadway show and the song from that show with a chorus …
Issue: March-April 2012
Tarun Khanna
… “A million mutinies now” was V.S. Naipaul’s 1990 description of the social upheaval then rocking India. “Lurking in that idea,” says Lemann professor Tarun Khanna, Ph.D. ’93, a native of New Delhi, “are …
Issue: November-December 2008
Martha Tedeschi to Step Down from Harvard Art Museums
… Martha Tedeschi , Cabot director of the Harvard Art Museums (HAM) since 2016 , announced today that she will retire at the end of this academic year, next June 30. During her tenure, the …
Cambridge Scholars
… Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2014-2015 academic year. Eric Cervini, of Round Rock, Texas, and Lowell House, a history … Jersey Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College; Miriam Farkas, of Ellicott City, Maryland, and Lowell House, a linguistics …
Issue: July-August 2014
Lester Named New Yorker Managing Editor
… Amelia Lester ’05 has been named managing editor of the New Yorker , the New York Observer reported yesterday. … Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard Magazine , Lester, a native of Sydney, Australia, wrote her first column for the …
Harvard College Connection Launches This Fall
… A new initiative —The Harvard College Connection—will use social media, video, … at Harvard or at other selective institutions, University officials announced today. “To ensure that talented … we need to meet them where they are,” Harvard College dean of admissions and financial aid William R. Fitzsimmons said …
Hunn Award Winners
… The Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Award … honorees represent, collectively, more than two centuries of labor. They are: Walter C. Klein '39, of Summit, New Jersey, whose contributions include acting as …
Overseer and HAA Director Members Elected
… The University announced today the newly elected members of the Board of Overseers (one of Harvard’s two governing boards), who …
Yale Adds Second ROTC Chapter
… As the September 20 date for implementation of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010 nears—prompting universities that prohibit …