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“Hope to Achieve Beauty”: A Class Day Talk at the Graduate School of Design
… “Dare to contemplate the crazy— it may lead to deeper sanity—and the ugly. It may … Brown told her audience on Class Day at the Graduate School of Design (GSD). Scott Brown’s wide-ranging speech touted … in South Africa, her battles as an urban planner, the woes of being rejected for projects, and the utter joys of …
Spheres of Knowledge
… The sixteenth century marked the beginning of modern scientific exploration. Instead of relying principally on classical accounts of the natural …
Jennifer Carling , Jonathan Shaw
Issue: November-December 2011
Harvard University’s 368th 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 2019
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Medalists
… Each June, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the school’s founding, …
Issue: July-August 2005
The Sage of Tree Frog Lane
… In 1970, his bestselling book, The Pursuit of Loneliness, made Philip Slater ’50, Ph.D. … the Breaking Point,” the book developed a searing critique of American culture, describing many of its ills—violence, …
Issue: March-April 2013
The Korean Nuclear Crisis
… As the United States was preparing to launch a war to counter … weapons ambitions, a far greater disaster involving weapons of mass destruction was brewing half a world away. North … over the freeze at Yongbyon, had moved on to other crises like the Balkans and taken its eyes off North Korea. …
Issue: September-October 2003
The Nocebo Effect
… expect to feel better from a pill or medical treatment, they just might, even if the pill is made of sugar or the treatment is a sham. This kind of response is so well established that researchers …
Issue: May-June 2005
Why We Eat What We Do
… In the spring of 1910, the freshmen of the Harvard Class of 1913 sat down at New American House … were invisible,” Chaplin explains. “They were just like machines that brought you what you wanted.” If a student …
Head to Toe
… Beneath shelves of books on the biology of bone, a collection of skulls and running shoes lies in a …
Issue: January-February 2011
Serving on the Corporation
… D. Ronald Daniel : While the bylaws do not set any limits with respect to time or … talking to her about 10 years or so. Henry Rosovsky : It’s often said about the Corporation that it is a self-perpetuating body and that is often raised in a spirit of criticism. But as a member of …
Issue: May-June 2006
Airing Out the Living Wage
… The occupation of Massachusetts Hall last spring by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM)--proponents of a minimum "living wage" of $10.68 per hour for Harvard …
Issue: January-February 2002
The SARS Scare
… In a matter of months in early 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome spread to 29 countries, killing nearly 10 percent of the people it infected. No drug could stop SARS, and the …
Issue: March-April 2007
Introducing the i-Lab
… The Harvard Innovation Lab —“Hi” in its cheery logo—was … to users throughout the University, and opening part of it to the surrounding community. The lab occupies the … Entrepreneurship appeals to many M.B.A. students. The rise of engineering. Further impetus comes from the rapid …
Issue: January-February 2012
Behind the Rampages
… Their names— and their respective tragedies—are now a part of the American lexicon: Littleton, Colorado; Paducah, … Kentucky; Jonesboro, Arkansas. The school shootings of the late 1990s came to represent everything bad about …
Issue: September-October 2002
President Bacow on Harvard in the Months Ahead
… have been expected to take a year-end victory lap on behalf of Harvard—students had a successful semester of in-person learning, faculty members conducted their research—President Lawrence S. Bacow found himself … the American Repertory Theater and the commercial enterprise research campus (including a University-funded, …