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The Changing Corporation
… The President and Fellows of Harvard College—as the seven-member, self-perpetuating Corporation, the … governing board, is formally known—is in the midst of unusually swift and extensive change. On April 7, Robert …
Issue: July-August 2002
Harvard on the Block
… Harvardiana from the collection of Michael Droller. He thinks that the doll, … four years ago. But he has never forgotten that first "surprise and fascination" at encountering the country's oldest …
Issue: March-April 2002
A Surge on Top of a Surge
… Harvard reported Tuesday, December 14, that the COVID-19 case count on campus in the prior week—178 … count throughout the fall semester: this in a community of students and employees with a 97 percent vaccination rate. In a letter addressed to members of the Harvard community, Provost Alan Garber, Executive …
Chronicler of Two Americas
… I first met Daniel Aaron 23 years ago. He was almost 80 then, retired for several years from his professorship at Harvard: a lean, fit, cheerful man, with a … book’s final pages, Dan, warily alert, registers his surprise at the many advantages life has bestowed upon him: “I …
Issue: November-December 2015
“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 …
The Dating Game
… Since 1978, thousands of people have streamed into Tercentenary Theatre on an early Thursday in June, looking forward to the University’s annual celebration of graduates past and present that is Commencement day. Yet …
Issue: May-June 2005
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
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
Commencement and Alumni Events
… and Stanford University’s Meier and Lane provostial professor of medicine Abraham Verghese . For details and updates on … and guest poet Arthur Sze , whose many books include The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems, Sanders …
Issue: May-June 2025
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 …
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 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
Pigskin Programs
… won seven college football national championships. Though the next decades featured strong teams and significant fan … mostly contained to the Northeast, in the first quarter of the twentieth century, collegiate football kicked off nationwide. Harvard squared up against—and …
Issue: November-December 2023
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
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