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A Gate of Whimsy
… By Harvard standards, the gate outside Lamont Library wasn’t really a gate. “It was just an extension of the fencing,” says Nazneen Cooper, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ assistant dean of campus design and …
Issue: March-April 2021
Harvard College Admission Yield Rises to 81 Percent
… Harvard College announced today that nearly 81 percent of students admitted to the class of 2016, enrolling this coming August, had decided … themselves as undecided—a fraction that, perhaps, will rise as those new Harvard undergraduates take in unexplored …
“Risk Forgiveness”
… who spoke at Morning Prayers last academic year about the 1965 voting-rights march in Selma and about the diversity of the Harvard community , opened the 2015 fall term by … 2 to talk about diversity again—this time in the shadow of the lawsuit now challenging Harvard’s admissions …
Expanding the Mind
… M.D. ’66, and his wife, Susan Gottsegen Neisuler, joined the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (HILR) a decade ago, it soon became “the centerpiece of our lives,” he says. “It is not only a place to study and teach, but a community of enduring friendships, group trips abroad, music and art …
Issue: September-October 2014
The Forgotten Modernist
… If there’s one name associated with the reputation of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) as the cradle of American modern …
Issue: September-October 2007
The Real Dan Fenn
… Due to errors at the HAA, the entry about HAA Award winner Dan Huntington … the November-December issue contained flaws. In fact, Fenn, of Lexington, Massachusetts, has been a class secretary … 1946 and a former president and executive commitee member of the Association of Harvard College Class Secretaries. An …
Issue: January-February 2005
Rx for the Books
… odor—it may have a disease. So collections conservator Ethel Hellman asks colleagues in the circulation and acquisition departments of Harvard libraries to keep their eyes (and noses) open for … with discoloration or unusual scents, the telltale signs of mold. But by the time a book begins to smell, the fungus …
Issue: January-February 2009
Harvard Class of 2025 Needs Overflow Housing
… Anticipating a larger student body than usual , the Harvard College Dean of Students Office (DSO) has announced additional housing locations for …
Harvard University’s 372nd Commencement Exercises
… Harvard’s Commencement Exercises have brought together the community unlike any other tradition still observed … exercises this spring. Given the increasing number of people planning to attend, we ask that interested readers … of the ceremony, the graduating seniors are asked to rise, and their degrees are conferred on them as a group by …
Issue: March-April 2023
Out of Cambridge
… The Boston I knew at the beginning of the semester was … There’s plenty to explore, and I’ve learned to expect surprises. In predominantly white South Boston, I encountered a …
Issue: January-February 2012
On the Road with Death
… In a world where buses are "flying coffins" and "moving morgues" and pedestrians should tremble, … family in a rented Toyota Tercel on a two-lane highway in the interior of the Dominican Republic when an on-coming … list of leading causes of disability, but are projected to rise to third place by 2020 as the number of motor vehicles …
Issue: November-December 2002
Scanning the Social Sciences
… have gone out inviting senior faculty members from across the University, nominated by the deans of their respective schools, to participate in planning for a broad review of the way Harvard handles the social sciences. The list of …
Issue: May-June 2008
The Jesus’s Wife Fragment: The Scientific Evidence
… In September 2012, Hollis professor of divinity Karen L. King made international headlines when she revealed the existence of a fragmentary, apparently ancient, text in …
“This Is a Battle of Ideas”
… Attendance at the afternoon portion of Harvard’s 366th Commencement Day … Puddles formed on the empty chairs. The plastic cups of beer from the Yard’s refreshments tent ran over with …
Is the Supreme Court’s Role Undemocratic?
… 1906, LL.D. ’56, was a titan as a Harvard Law School professor for 25 years in the early twentieth century. For the next 23 years, until he … decades following World War II, Brennan wrote, when “the rise of mass education and mass media of communication” …
Issue: September-October 2022