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… 1923 The committee examining Harvard’s admissions process … and a corresponding decrease in unsatisfactory marks as proof that upperclassmen have the “capacity and interest to … The University announces that tuition for the College will rise to $525 in the fall, the first increase in 20 years, …
Issue: March-April 2008
Urban Utopias
… Among the most disorienting features of living in contemporary … architectural remnants of the Beijing of his youth: the low-rise socialist housing built in the wake of the Communist …
Issue: September-October 2010
Off the Shelf
… The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865, by Mark Peterson ’83, Ph.D. …
Issue: March-April 2019
Culture in the Cold War
… In 1946, shortly after the end of World War II, the philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote … one cannot live without freedom,” she noted with faint surprise. Perceptively, though, she added, “The fundamental …
Issue: March-April 2021
Arts and Science Transitions
… The beginning of the end of a period of instability in the … and co-founder, chief scientist, and chairman of Liquid Machines, a software company that provides security services … making FAS, and Harvard, “the most exciting” learning enterprise in the world. Both Faust and Smith praised Bok, …
Issue: July-August 2007
Dean of Student Life Departs
… Dean of student life Suzy M. Nelson will leave at the end of the academic year to accept a post as vice president and …
A Fitter FAS
… With the pandemic’s worst effects in the past, Dean Claudine Gay painted an upbeat picture of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) prospects when … percent to 33 percent. A new section detailed the dramatic rise in non-ladder faculty, to 356 full-time equivalents, …
Issue: January-February 2023
Making Music Out of DNA Loops
… There is music in DNA loops. The genome, which otherwise would be the height of a refrigerator, folds into a microscopic bundle inside the nucleus of a cell, knitting itself into “loops” of genetic …
Issue: September-October 2023
Neuroeconomics
… Certain patterns of response to rewards seem to be biologically embedded in the human brain. A branch of behavioral economics called … is less straightforward than, say, playing slot machines and losing money. Yet it is one of the most …
Issue: March-April 2006
Inauguration of Drew Faust
… as well as in-depth coverage, slideshow, and audio from the event... Drew Gilpin Faust forcefully took possession of her Harvard presidency during inaugural celebrations and … in the November-December 2007 issue). Listen to audio of the inauguration celebrations below. Review of Events and …
Issue: November-December 2007
Focusing on the Face
… The photograph that opens the first chapter of Melissa … Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard is of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre himself, the unlikely …
Beyond the Bubble
… The torrent of venture-funded Internet start-ups and wildly successful initial public stock offerings by such companies from 1998 through early 2000 … and "business to consumer" electronic-commerce enterprises--transmogrified into students' new-old career …
The Shah of Iran Proposed a Universal Welfare Legion
… The shah of Iran addressed alumni and new graduates on … afternoon in 1968, proposing an “international counterpart of the Peace Corps” in the name of entering “a holy struggle …
Curiosities: “Completely Magical”
… as recreate how we see it. Since turning to photography in the 1990s, he has produced a store of images that primarily reflect two subjects: Colorado’s … thing about this show is how an economy of means gives rise to this endless creative profusion,” says exhibit …
Issue: November-December 2021
150 Years of Glee
… During its first international tour, in 1921, the Harvard Glee Club inspired French composers Francis … project. In 2000, Bernard E. Kreger ’59, secretary of the Harvard Glee Club Foundation, donated $25,000 (which … was matched by the foundation) to commission a new piece of men’s choral music annually, culminating in a major work …
Issue: March-April 2008