Feb. 4, 1952 – Time runs out for the street clock in front of the Harvard Trust Co. (now Fleet) after a moving van knocks it down, smashing it beyond repair. The bank promptly announces that in two to three months, it will replace the 40-year-old landmark with another in the same spot.
Margaret Bentley Sevcenko, editor of publications for the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, died of respiratory failure on Feb. 9 at the age of 71. In the words of Oleg Grabar, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art Emeritus, Sevcenko joined the program at Harvard and M.I.T. in 1979, guided its first steps, and set it on its successful course.
Noted actor, producer, and director Blair Underwood has been named the 2002 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation of Harvard University. Underwood will accept the Harvard Foundation award for his outstanding contributions to American performing arts in Sanders Theatre during Harvards annual Cultural Rhythms festival on Saturday, Feb. 23. The award bears the signatures of Harvards President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis. Previous honorees have included Andy Garcia, Will Smith, Matt Damon, Halle Berry, and Jackie Chan.
A new study from the School of Public Health (SPH) has found that in states and regions with higher levels of household firearm ownership, many more children are dying from homicide, suicide, and gun accidents. The differences in rates of violent death to children across states are large. The higher death rates in high-gun states are due to differences in deaths from firearms. This elevated rate of violent death to children in high gun states cannot be explained by differences in state levels of poverty, education, or urbanization.
Andrea Quintana 02 was one of the first to donate blood at Harvards Red Cross Blood Drive, which continues at Memorial Hall today (Thursday, Feb. 21) and tomorrow. It costs me nothing and it can help someone else, said Quintana, who has participated in nearly all of Harvards quarterly blood drives since her freshman year.
WorldTeach, a nonprofit organization that places teachers in developing countries to teach English as a foreign language, has full-year programs in China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Namibia, departing in January, April, June, and September. Six-month programs in China and Honduras, or eight-week summer programs in China, Costa Rica, and Ecuador are also available. In August, WorldTeach will launch a new program in the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific.
Bruce Willis didnt save the world on his Valentines Day visit to Harvard, but he did manage to salvage his dignity, fielding every curve his hosts threw him with good-natured grace and humor.
Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1991, has announced his plans to end his service as dean and to return to the faculty at the end of this academic year.
This evening (Feb. 14) the toughest movie star in America will be roasted at the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Awards. Actor Bruce Willis, who recently garnered critical raves for his work on the film Sixth Sense (and whose new movie, Harts War, will be released tomorrow), will be teased and toasted by his Hasty Pudding hosts at 8 p.m. at the Hasty Pudding Theatre, prior to the start of the opening night performance of Snow Place Like Home. A press conference will be held immediately after the roast at 8:25 p.m.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, Feb. 9. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates: March 5 April 10 May 8…
A record 19,520 students have applied for admission to the college this year for entrance to the Class of 2006 next September. For the 11th time in the past 12 years, applications rose. Last year, 19,014 students applied for admission 10 years ago 13,029 applied.
For more than a dozen years, Judith Gurewich has been guiding Harvard students and faculty through the intricate terrain of structuralism, post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and other daunting regions of contemporary thought.
No one said Harvard would be easy. Your roommate drives you crazy, you cant master that chemistry assignment, and its been weeks since youve slept through the night. In fact, youre quite certain the admissions office made a grievous error in inviting you here in the first place.
On Sept. 15, four days after terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh immigrant from India, was shot to death while he worked on landscaping outside his Chevron station in Mesa, Ariz.
An asylum full of lunatics and their brutal keepers take over the main stage of the Loeb Drama Center tomorrow night (Feb. 15). Its a theatrical experience that may give you nightmares, but youll also find yourself whistling the catchy tunes.
Foster McCrum Palmer, associate University librarian from 1966 until 1974, died on Feb. 2 at his home in Watertown. He was 87 years old. Palmers career in the Harvard libraries began in 1938 under the late Keyes Metcalf. In 1941, Palmer began his long service as senior reference librarian in Widener Library. He is acknowledged as an early proponent of the application of computers to libraries. Following his retirement in 1974, Palmer was called back into Harvard service from 1975 to 1977 as acting director of the Countway Library of Medicine.
Poor Figaro! All he wants to do is marry his beloved Susanna and settle down, but look what he has to put up with – a lusty count with the hots for his wife-to-be, an older woman wholl forgive the money he owes her if hell marry her instead, a goofy young page whos infatuated with women in general, and an assortment of other characters who insist on impersonating one another and adding to the confusion.
Third-year Suffolk University Law School student Peter Brown wants to help eradicate employment discrimination. Thanks in large measure to a Jerome Lyle Rappaport Charitable Foundation internship, which brought him this past summer to the Attorney Generals (AG) office in Boston, Brown is well on his way to his dream job with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Progress has been made in the worldwide fight against hunger but action is still needed to help the 777 million people who still dont have enough to eat, Catherine Bertini, the executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, said Thursday (Feb. 7).
The Environmental Information Center, a unit of the Harvard College Library, is mounting a special exhibition in preparation for the upcoming 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development – a United Nations conference called to examine the first 30 years of environmental policy and to chart future strategies. People and the Planet: Forging International Environmental Policy, 1972-2002, displayed on the first floor of Cabot Science Library, traces the development of environmental awareness from the 1972 UN conference that first addressed environmental issues to the forthcoming summit to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August.
The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, better known as Harvards famed Glass Flowers, is back on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History after a two-month absence while the gallery housing the treasures was remodeled.
The Environmental Information Center (EIC) embarks on its seventh year with a new librarian, plans for influential collection expansion, and an intense commitment to interdisciplinary research.
On his Feb. 11 visit to Harvard, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán (center) is greeted by President Lawrence H. Summers at Massachusetts Hall. Later, Orbán signed the guest book with University Marshal Rick Hunt (far left) at Wadsworth House and then dined at the Faculty Club.
Swapping New York cool for wide-eyed gushing, Sex and the City star and co-producer Sarah Jessica Parker arrived at Harvard Thursday (Feb. 7) to collect the Hasty Pudding Theatricals annual Woman of the Year award.
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