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The Quiet Campaign
… The contested election for Harvard’s Board of Overseers … own tuition charges. He suggested state-school tuition has risen astronomically because colleges have had to add …
Martha Minow Appointed Dean of Harvard Law School
… President Drew Faust has appointed Smith professor of law Martha Minow dean of Harvard Law School, effective … July 1; she succeeds Elena Kagan, now solicitor general of the United States. Minow, a member of the faculty since …
At Home with Harvard: The Undergraduate
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …
The Art and Science of Class Scheduling
… Organizing the Allston science complex has been protracted, but scheduling undergraduate classes on both sides of the Charles once the School of Engineering and Applies … Business School and the athletic facilities), it is no surprise that the Allston planners’ Class Scheduling Task Force …
Issue: July-August 2016
Up in the Air
… change is to show before-and-after pictures: now you see the icebergs, now you don’t. “It seemed like there was more … than that,” says Alex MacLean ’69, M.Arch. ’73. Photographs of vanishing glaciers show the effect but not the cause, he … on the atmosphere from the atmosphere, taking pictures of the ground from high above as he crisscrosses the country …
Issue: January-February 2009
Craig Lambert’s “Shadow Work”
… turned his energies to completing his second book (another real job). Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That … pump; etc. ( At the magazine, which used to send columns of type off to the printer on waxed paper, the staff today … Shadow Work in the forthcoming New York Times Book Review, ‘Rise of the Robots’ and ‘Shadow Work.’ … 219 … A Harvard …
The Pioneering Crimson Women at the New York Times
… With the appointment of Jill Abramson '76 as executive editor of the New York Times —the first time a woman has held that …
Tax Reform, Round One
… The Trump administration’s successful efforts at tax legislation stand out as the primary achievement of its first year. But the hurried, largely furtive drafting, and rush to passage at the end of 2017, have helped obscure the new tax regime’s real …
Issue: May-June 2018
The 140th Harvard-Yale: Game Fandom Tiny Mic Edition
… The Harvard-Yale football game, a tradition more than a century old, stands as one of the most storied rivalries in American collegiate sports. … athletic competition. The Game is a living chronicle of academic prestige, social identity, and American history. …
Saluting the 2023 Centennial Medalists
… THE GRIFFIN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Made in the U.S.A.
… The phrase “The Great American Novel” means something more than the sum of its parts. There are plenty of great American novels that … qualify, and neither does Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises , or Willa Cather’s The Lost Lady , even though …
Issue: January-February 2014
To the Victor...?
… The curator of the Lee Family Hall of Athletic History, at the Murr Center, …
Issue: September-October 2003
The Geeky Underground
… Before he was the acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles and … zine. Pronounced “zeen,” these self-published, often-low-budget magazines are staples in subcultures and …
Issue: July-August 2022
Off the Shelf
… Who the Hell Are We Fighting? The Story of Sam Adams and the … Press , $25.95). Here’s a tightly written narrative history of what happened when the late CIA analyst Samuel A. Adams …
Issue: May-June 2006
Beyond the SAT
… Nicholas Lemann ’76, dean of the Columbia Journalism School from 2003 to 2013 ( “The … (1999). A succinct new work, Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing …
Issue: September-October 2024