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"Lots of Reasonable 99c Lunches"
… Found in this magazine’s basement: a sheaf of pages listing Cambridge and Boston restaurants from a guide for students that evidently dates from the early 1960s. Here are the greasy-spoons: Waldorf, … dependables, including Elsie’s and the Wursthaus. Scenes of innocent merriment, such as Cronin’s, where “dinners run …
Issue: May-June 2006
Rose Is a Rose...
… In light of Radcliffe College's 1999 transformation... … 60 … Rose Is …
Skull Walking
… If you happened to be outdoors on the Harvard Medical School campus last November, you might have noticed this 78-inch-tall model of a bisected human skull making its way down Shattuck … Street by Gordon Hall to a staging area in the basement of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. It was …
Issue: March-April 2014
The Water Tamer
… In the little town of 5,000 where he now lives, John Briscoe holds the exalted title “master of the Todd Pond dam,” a tiny impoundment. He uses this role …
Issue: January-February 2012
Music, Taken Personally
… ago , composer John Adams '69, A.M. '72, was conductor of the undergraduate Bach Society Orchestra. A Crimson critic … marriage, for example, is brief and reticent. We view his rise to his current eminence obliquely, as a progress from …
Issue: May-June 2009
The Venture-Capital University
… Research universities are the world’s great venture capitalists for investments in … human capital—that is, knowledge. Harvard enrolls thousands of students, each of whom is a “project.” Students acquire human capital, an …
Issue: September-October 2011
Convocation Welcomes Classes of 2024 and 2025 to Campus
… Two College classes, together for the first time, celebrated their convocations on … them to a fully re-opened Harvard. The Class of 2025 is larger than usual, and includes a number of students who deferred enrollment last year amid the …
Lydialyle Gibson , Nancy Walecki
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
Sherry Turkle, Mark Doty, to Speak at Phi Beta Kappa Exercises
… (PBK) Literary Exercises, which will take place in Sanders Theatre on May 23. This is traditionally the opening event of Commencement week, and during it, the society confers … , “I began to hear students talking about their minds as machines, based on the early personal computers they had. …
Antibiotics Feed These Bacteria, Instead of Killing Them
… science fiction, but it's not. A paper published today in the journal Science explains that some bacteria thrive on a diet of antibiotics, instead of dying as previous science predicts they should. The story …
Class Day Speaker for the Harvard College Class of 2008 Announced
… Ben S. Bernanke ’75 will serve as Class Day speaker for the Harvard College Class of 2008, addressing the graduating seniors and their guests … afternoon, June 4, in Tercentenary Theatre. Read the official announcement . … Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben …
Annals of Anxiety
… “I have since the age of about two been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses,” writes Scott Stossel ’91, …
Issue: January-February 2014
Debora L. Spar: “The Woman’s Problem”
… Debora L. Spar grew up in the 1970s, a time when women finally had a voice and an opportunity to move up in the professional world. She thought life would be like “the … job. “We had this idea that we would just waltz into the professional world and it would just work out,” Spar told an …
At Home with Harvard: The Immigrant Experience
… 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 previous selections, featuring articles about income … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …
Prediction and Prevention
… disease, but clinical researchers are already using other kinds of information about their patients to guide their treatment. Cobb professor of psychiatry Matcheri Keshavan, who is based at …
Issue: July-August 2017