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William Rawn: Patterns of Place
… architect William Rawn (read “Architecture in Concert” from the September-October 2012 issue) describes “patterns of place” and discusses how they apply to his design for the … Library, an acclaimed building that opened in 2009. Video of the library building and its site illustrates the points …
Issue: September-October 2012
Stand Up: HBS Marks 50 Years of Women
… In 1963, eight women crossed the Charles River to crack a barrier that had stood for more than half a century at Harvard, becoming the first of their gender to enroll in the Business School’s two-year … far from reaching parity with their male peers: they comprise only 4 percent of Fortune 500 Company CEOs, run less …
The California Meltdown
… by William H. Hogan A decade ago, California, along with other states and federal policymakers, began to rethink its … to the electricity market. Frustrated by the high costs of long-term contracts and investments in electric power, … to accommodate growing demand. Given the problems that had arisen in the "good old days" of regulation--such as …
Issue: September-October 2001
Reflections of Fatimah Tuggar
… at Wellesley College’s Davis Museum through December 15, offers 26 large-scale works by the Nigerian-born, Kansas-based conceptual artist. Given her … desktop computer—displaying on its screen a duplicate image of the entire Working Woman montage. It’s as if the woman is …
Issue: November-December 2019
The New Overseers and HAA Elected Directors
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and new elected directors of the … N.Y. Vice president, head of strategy and group enterprises, MTV Entertainment Group. Jane Labanowski ’17 , …
Issue: July-August 2021
The Harvard Center for Gastrophysics?
… Surprise is Ferran Adrià’s stock in trade. He delights the diners at elBulli, his restaurant near Barcelona, with … served hot; a “bubble tea” drink in which the liquid tastes of prosciutto and the bubbles of melon; and jellybean-like …
Issue: March-April 2009
Yesterday's News
… 1937 A 1.2-million-volt x-ray machine has been installed in the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital, a department of the University, to provide cancer treatments. The machine … be run at half its full capacity. 1942 Queen Wilhemina of the Netherlands, in exile during the Nazi occupation of …
Issue: July-August 2002
The College within the University
… D. Ronald Daniel : There’s a very special governance issue at Harvard. That is the role of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences [FAS] in the whole University. Henry …
Issue: May-June 2006
Harvard College Admits 5.2 Percent of Applicants to Class of 2021
… College announced today that 2,056 students have been offered admission to the class of 2021 ( including the 938 accepted last December under the …
The Great Refractor
… On a commanding hillock less than a mile northwest of Harvard Square sits the Harvard College Observatory and the Great Refractor, … lowered. The telescope is firmly grounded: a granite pier rises 43 feet to the observing floor from a 22-foot-diameter …
Issue: May-June 2004
Cambridge 02138
… A Note to Readers The “7 Ware Street” column does not appear in this issue, … decided it was important to make space available for more of your letters to the editor, of which there were … disease (COVID, anyone?), global warming, sea-level rise, species extinction, aggravated by Man’s unfortunate …
Issue: January-February 2021
Vita: Ann Petry
… move to New York, Ann (Lane) Petry did not come in search of celebrity or fame. She left her hometown of Old Saybrook, … Harlem in 1938 to join her new husband, George, to escape the expectations of her middle-class family, and to pursue … grew and as the specter of a second Red Scare began to rise, Petry and her husband returned to Old Saybrook in …
Issue: January-February 2014
Boston in Motion
… Imagine running the Boston Marathon in 1635, a few years after the city was … ending in a swim through the swampy waters to the west of the Boston Neck—then a rail-thin strip of land connecting … looked to the right during your swim, tall hills would have risen from the water. Cattle would have meandered through …
Rose-Colored Passes
… The translation of Neil Rose from benchwarmer to record-breaking passer was completed in a span of less than 13 minutes. In that interval, quarterback Rose … bungled extra-point snap and running it back 85 yards. Surprise! Harvard's first touchdown in the Brown game came on a …
The Elephant in the Room
… Thursday nights, clops of dress shoes and clicks of high heels echo through the narrow streets of Harvard’s campus. Adjusting their ties … If the conservative groups on Harvard’s campus comprised a human body, JAS would be the brain. Founded in 2014, …
Issue: September-October 2023