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The Overseers’ Higher Profile
… If past is prologue, last summer’s pandemic-delayed election of members of the Board of Overseers represents a significant challenge …
Issue: March-April 2021
Back to the Gridiron
… When last we glimpsed the Harvard football team and its supporters, it was … and they were wandering stunned and spent around the floor of the Yale Bowl following the Crimson’s ghastly … defeat in the program’s history and the denouement of a godforsaken 4-6 season. At the time, few could envision …
Issue: September-October 2021
Refreshing the Fellows
… The President and Fellows of Harvard College, as the executive governing board of the University is officially titled, has returned to full …
Poised for Partnerships
… The new dean of the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has been in his post for … in Allston, where the school’s new building will begin to rise this coming summer , with a probable occupancy date in …
Squirrely
… In the beginning , before there were squirrels in Harvard Yard, … absent from American cities. The present ubiquity of the arboreal rodents, who often seem to enchant … the twentieth century, as laboring animals were replaced by machines and dairy, meat, and egg production and processing …
Issue: January-February 2014
Lessons in Leadership
… Harvard University, or even America, when he came across the website for the International Summer School on … Harvard collaborative that aims to develop a new generation of post-Soviet leaders in the Republic of Georgia. But he instantly knew the program was for him. …
Brattle Theatre to Screen “Children of Invention”
… The independent film Children of Invention, produced by … Magazine 's March-April issue, Louie discusses Children of Invention and the wider subject of independent filmmaking …
How Deforestation Damages Even the Rainforests That Survive It
… Last summer —seemingly a lifetime ago—the news was dominated by reports of the escalation of human-created fires in the Amazon … staying below 1.5 degree Celsius global average temperature rise,” Eric Dinerstein, a wildlife scientist who was not …
Soul Beyond the Skin
… years, documentary filmmaker Julie Mallozzi ’92 had learned of every fateful turn in Lalita Bharvani’s life—her … skin with white; her battle with ovarian cancer; and, out of nowhere, heart failure. But now, for the first time, Mallozzi wanted to turn off the camera. …
Issue: May-June 2013
The Son Also Rises
… that what he really wanted to do was learn to perform the Mexican “roots” music he loved so much. Instead of pursuing the academic career he seemed destined for, the … folk music. … 1531 … 8468 … 1505 … 1507 … The Son Also Rises … article …
Issue: November-December 2009
The Way Forward
… What can Harvard learn from the administration of Lawrence H. Summers—cut short of its expected duration, and short of achieving many of its …
Issue: May-June 2006
“Find Yourself a Teacher…”
… At Morning Prayers last year, President Claudine Gay —then in office for two months and five days—drew upon an incident in … to our intellectual pursuits. If and when tensions among us rise, I hope that we will approach each other, not only as …
The Peter Pan Myth, Reinvented
… The new musical theater production Finding Neverland, which … Theater on August 13, extends the century-old mythology of Peter Pan. The saga of the boy who would not grow up, with its crocodiles, …
Bringing the Magic
… There’s a story that Tomi Adeyemi ’15 often tells about the “big bang” moment that sparked Children of Blood and Bone —the Afrofuturist fantasy epic that made …
Issue: September-October 2024
University Endowments: The Gathering Storm
… In reporting investment returns on the endowment through last June 30, Harvard Management … (see here )—cautioned that "We are quite cognizant of the near-term risk of subpar investment returns from many … genuine national and international political and economic crises—Faust said, "We are not immune" to circumstances. The …