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Harvard’s 367th Commencement Exercises
… students, Harvard’s Commencement Exercises have brought together the community unlike any other tradition still observed … Exercises this spring. To accommodate the increasing number of people planning to attend, we ask that any interested … of the ceremony the graduating seniors are asked to rise, and their degrees are conferred on them as a group by …
Issue: March-April 2018
"Entering the Elite"
… An apocryphal tale about car-window decals epitomizes the frenzy surrounding college admissions in recent years. … comes The Early Admissions Game , reflecting five years of work by professor of public policy Christopher Avery and … Yet at Harvard, the number of students admitted early has risen to more than 1,100 of the nearly 2,100 who receive …
Issue: May-June 2003
Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner Named Hasty Pudding Man and Woman of the Year
… In-person celebrations for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Man and Woman of the Year Awards will resume this year as the Pudding Pot … Jason Bateman with the 55th annual Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award,” said Pudding President Nick Amador. …
Harvard A Cappella, From the Top
… On any given weeknight around 10 P.M. in the 1960s, a passerby outside Dunster House might have overhead a group of young men harmonizing and laughing along to slightly … twenty-somethings who felt as though they were on top of the world. As described by a 1963 Harvard Crimson review …
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Envisions Its Future
… E nlisting its members’ intellects and capabilities, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is pursuing an unprecedented … possible to fund exciting work in new fields. A further surprise is that the FSG report, sweeping in scope, has been …
The Face in the Glass
… It is the disquieting habit of the compilers of the twenty-fifth-anniversary reports of …
Valerie Montgomery Rice’s Medical and Dental Schools Class Day Address
… Thank you for that kind introduction. And thank you to the Harvard medical and dental class of 2021 for inviting me to be your Class Day speaker this … this time in history. A time that has seen the devastation of a global pandemic on the lives of millions of people. …
Ripening Nicely
… Soon Harvard’s sidewalk superintendents will turn their attention to Allston because that’s where the hardhats … will oversee workers as they erect 10 million square feet of buildings there and increase the University’s physical … Drive housing project includes a building with a low-rise section, shown here in the background, and a high-rise …
Issue: May-June 2007
World-Wide Web of Life
… Doug Backlund, South Dakota Dept. of Game, Fish, and Parks American burying beetle Gary M. … White tip reef shark Tim Bowman Long-billed dowitcher Of the 23 types of salamander in the genus Thorius endemic …
Issue: November-December 2008
After the Boom
… After a decade of explosive expansion for Harvard's two fastest-growing … schools, one faces a deficit and is cutting costs, while the other has hired a consulting firm to analyze its … soon drop dramatically. University-wide, the payout has risen as much as 28 percent in a recent year, but for the …
Issue: March-April 2002
The Complete Works of Du Fu, China’s Shakespeare, Published in English
… As Shakespeare is to literature in English , so is the poet Du Fu to the Chinese literary tradition. He wrote … to modern Chinese readers in a way that English literature of that period—think Beowulf —is not available to readers of modern English. Du Fu, in fact, is still widely quoted in …
A Shift in the Created Order
… Adapted by the author from the Convocation Address she delivered to the … School community on September 19, 2005, at the opening of the academic year, half a century after the first female students matriculated there. The admission of women to Harvard programs——a contentious question across …
Issue: May-June 2006
The Purely Pragmatic University
… face exceptional opportunities and exceptional risks. Their research is needed more than ever, now that new … sudden change, adults in many occupations and many stages of life are returning to campus for further study. Many of … to pursue private ventures at a cost to the common enterprise. Once profit-seeking increases throughout the …
Issue: May-June 2003
Making the Wires Touch
… "When you read literary works or see them on the stage, as in the case of Shakespeare," says Stephen Greenblatt, "you are … them. "That signals that something is wrong with this enterprise. It runs the risk of becoming bloodless." Greenblatt's …
Issue: September-October 2004
Off the Shelf
… I mperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War, by Marvin Kalb, Murrow professor of practice emeritus (Brookings Institution, $29). … their “historical, biographical, and creative origins.” The Rise of the Right to Know, by Michael Schudson, Ph.D. ’76 …
Issue: September-October 2015