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All in a Day: Hull’s Lifesaving Legacy
… The best route to Hull is by boat. As the MBTA’s commuter … passengers can eye the treacherous shipping route that gave rise to the town’s Point Allerton Lifesaving Station in … community had no more than 300 residents; at least a third of them were involved in volunteer lifesaving,” notes …
Issue: September-October 2015
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
Congratulations to the Winner of Our Photo Sweepstakes!
… Congratulations to Betty Breck ’60, the winner of Harvard Magazine 's 2010 Commencement & Reunion Photo Sweepstakes. Breck, of Groton, South Dakota, was randomly selected to receive …
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
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
Out of Place?
… Imagine you are curator-in-chief of all of Harvard’s collections of tangible things and a donor … on view through May 29, principally at galleries of the Historical Scientific Instruments Collection in the …
Issue: March-April 2011
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 …
Money Matters
… The investment return on Harvard’s endowment assets during … from $37.1 billion a year earlier. N.P. Narvekar, CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC), which manages the … and academic health, of their success. The 5.7 percent rise in the endowment’s value in part reflects a relatively …
Issue: November-December 2018
Vivek Murthy on the “Vision and Values” of Medicine
… Vivek Murthy ’98, this year’s student choice as the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) Class Day speaker , urged the 160 … explore new ideas and to seek fulfillment in their professional choices. Murthy invited the class of 2014 to let …
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
Asteroid-Naming in the New Millennium
… Acting out of "a sense of public duty," Ashok Nimgade '80, M.P.H. '98, M.D., of … sent by David Anthony Garcia '81 to Brian G. Marsden at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The letter …
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
By the Book
… Harvard’s 364th was a mannerly , by-the-book Commencement. After a year of campus protests seeking divestment from fossil-fuel … eager-beaver M.B.A. candidates, directed by the provost to rise for their degrees, had already done so, as he observed; …
Issue: July-August 2015
Publishing “The Harvard Advocate” Despite the Pandemic
… The Harvard Advocate , a venerable publication now 154 years … old, has published writers who have gone on to form much of the American literature we know in the twentieth century: … to this new reality on the fly. “With the sudden transition off-campus in March, members of the magazine found …
How to Adapt to Climate Change
… her climate-resilient designs for urban parks, campuses, rooftops, and buildings in her native Thailand, where “living … affairs Niall Kirkwood put it in his introduction, “is the vernacular.” Residents of Bangkok, dubbed by Western … have become more intense. And last, there is sea-level rise, exacerbated in Bangkok by local subsidence of the land …