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Graduate School of Education
… Dean Kathleen McCartney will speak at the convocation ceremony on Wednesday, May 26, at 3 p.m. in Radcliffe Yard. Visit the Graduate School of Education website . … Dean Kathleen McCartney will speak at the May 26 convocation ceremony. … Graduate School of Education - Commencement & Reunion 2010 … Graduate School …
Latin Salutatory: “Campus of Dreams”
… English translaton follows... Praeses Aestive, Decani, Professores, vos qui geritis et exercitis nostros manipulos … et cum "Thwacko!" digno Magni Mannii, quam cel- errime profecti sumus. Cum primum Bostoniam, domum Soccorum Rubrorum … cheered us on in numbers that must equal those at Fenway; mothers and fathers, our number one fans, you who have …
Behind the Scenes
… visuals for films like Colossal and Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings . But Scott’s film didn’t awaken in her the … trouble.” As art director for films like Gone Girl , 300: Rise of an Empire , Shopgirl , Punch-Drunk Love , and Love & …
Issue: January-February 2024
Saving Money, Oil, and the Climate
… The United States is in urgent need of a comprehensive, … trucks averaged 12.4 miles per gallon in 1960. The oil crises of the 1970s triggered an increased demand for …
Issue: March-April 2008
Mysteries and Masterpieces
… In 2011, Harvard University Press celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the Loeb Classical Library , the renowned series that … of the Bible: “If it is an ordinary day, as soon as they rise from supper, the brothers should all sit down together …
Issue: January-February 2012
The Boy’s Dilemma
… The idea that boys like to play with guns while girls prefer … Arkansas, and Colorado. Not one perpetrator in this string of schoolyard shootings has been female. It's not the presence of gun play in the lives of boys that causes real-life …
World Premiere of esperanza spalding and Wayne Shorter’s Opera, (Iphigenia)
… Wayne Shorter, the 88-year-old, 11-time Grammy-winning saxophonist … Cutler Majestic Theater in Boston, Shorter and Harvard professor of the practice of music esperanza spalding (who does not …
Rogoff: A Whiff of Inflation Now?
… Cabot professor of public policy Kenneth S. Rogoff , a member of the economics department widely known as co-author of This Time Is Different (read the Harvard Magazine review) —an economics bestseller about …
Can MOOCs Predict the Future of Online Education?
… The best use of massive open online courses (MOOCs) may be in providing instruction that leads to online professional degrees—not the extension of basic college … programs offered directly to businesses (200 business enterprises are now customers). And its third strategy involves …
"A Loomful of Hues"
… says. “Some are more practical in a city apartment than others, so perhaps that’s why weaving was the one I chose.” … somehow mindless.” She herself believes in the benefits of a broad education, but calls her time at Harvard “a sort of a detour”: a study of fibers and dyes derived from plants …
Off the Shelf
… , by Wendy Lesser ’73 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25). The founding editor of The Threepenny Review , addressing “the serious pleasure … steps through the modern era—what the subtitle labels “the rise and fall of U.S. intervention to protect American …
Issue: January-February 2014
Calhoun-Fall
… Peter H. Wood ’64, Ph.D. ’72, an emeritus history professor at Duke University and former member of Harvard’s … Board of Overseers, submitted this essay reflecting on the recent removal of the massive John C. Calhoun statue in … moment for Calhoun-Fall had finally arrived. … 22638 … The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a …
Two Centuries of Sound
… On March 6, 1808, six men of Harvard formed the Pierian Sodality: the direct ancestor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, which this season …
Issue: May-June 2008
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
The War and the Writ
… has been imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay Detention Center for the last seven years. He is not a terrorist. He’s a mistake, a victim of the war against al Qaeda. An interrogator first told him … But courts eventually begin to reassert their authority as crises pass, says Vermeule. The government, perhaps fearing …
Issue: January-February 2009