On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges faced hostile crowds as the first black child to attend an all-white New Orleans school. Since then, Bridges has become iconized by Norman Rockwell in a painting of the girl in a white dress escorted by federal marshals, and by Robert Coles in a picture book for children featuring Bridges. The person, not the icon, will speak to the Harvard community on Thursday, April 18, at 6 p.m. in the Memorial Church. The conversation with Bridges is co-sponsored by the Divinity School, the Graduate School of Education, the Harvard Childrens Initiative, Adams House, the Division of General Pediatrics at Childrens Hospital, and the Memorial Church. An informal reception and book signing will follow the event.
On Friday, April 12, at 3 p.m., a service of thanksgiving for the life of Nathan Marsh Pusey 28, 24th president of Harvard College, will be held in the Memorial Church.
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has awarded $220,000 to a research team involving five University faculty members to realize a project in Religion in Global Politics. This decision marked the centers third annual award of a Weatherhead Initiative grant, a program established in 1998 by a generous gift from Albert and Celia Weatherhead and the Weatherhead Foundation.
Periodically, the Harvard Administrators Forum has sponsored fairs for the Harvard community, showcasing various departments and services. This year, as we all know, was different, and as a result, the forum decided the focus of its event should be giving back to the community. Thus, the volunteer fair of Wednesday, March 27.
Following a nationwide search that began last fall, President Lawrence H. Summers announced today that he has appointed Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, leading historian of education and president of the Chicago-based Spencer Foundation, as the next dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Lagemann succeeds Jerome T. Murphy, who served as dean from 1992 through June 2001, and Judith Singer and John Willett, who have served jointly as acting dean since Murphy’s departure. Lagemann will assume her duties in July.
March 24, 1943: John F. Connolly – familiar to generations of students as John the Yard Cop – turns 75, still making his rounds as the dean of Crimson police. A native of Charlestown, he began working at Harvard in 1906.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 30. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. Individuals wishing to meet with President Summers or Provost Hyman will be welcomed on a first-come, first-served basis. A Harvard ID is required.
In a matter of minutes, a line of tense Harvard Medical School (HMS) seniors turned into a talkative mob outside the Medical School Registrars Office Thursday (March 21) as Match Days anxiety turned to relief with the opening of a little white envelope.
AIDS is in the air in Botswana. On the airwaves, actually. They call it the radio disease, according to Harvard AIDS Institute Chairman Max Essex, because so many public service announcements urging safe sex are broadcast.
Having banished a C-Span crew who were busily setting up under the misapprehension that they would be allowed to record the proceedings, Stephen Jay Gould trudged to the podium of the Natural History Museums Geological Lecture Hall carrying a heavily laden canvas tote bag. The tote contained his latest book, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, plus several of his earlier volumes.
Yellow and green are considered colors of healing in a number of ancient traditions. This past March in dazzling arrays of golden daffodils these colors filled the modern offices throughout the University. And these bright visitors were intimately connected with healing. Daffodil Days at Harvard is a yearly fund drive that raises money for the American Cancer Foundation.
Goethe called architecture frozen music. What harmonies might he have heard had he visited the Fogg Museum? Perhaps a Haydn symphony to go with the buildings Georgian façade, or a Palestrina madrigal to complement the interior courtyard (a replica of the Sangallo loggia at San Biagio, Montepulciano), or a Purcell overture to echo against the baroque English woodwork in the Naumburg Room.
The University of Maine men’s hockey team clinched the opening round of the NCAA East Regionals, 4-3 in overtime, on Saturday afternoon (March 23) at the Worcester Centrum, ending Harvard’s…
The sixth annual Celebration of Faculty and Staff Authors at the Graduate School of Education was held at the Gutman Library on March 8. This gala event, sponsored by the Deans Office, honored 32 GSE authors who published books or created multimedia productions during the past year. The occasion also marked the 82nd anniversary of the Schools founding on March 8, 1920.
At the Faculty Councils 11th meeting of the year, Professor William Fash (anthropology) and Professor William Kirby (history) presented the Report on Study Abroad prepared by the Facultys Standing Committee on Out-of-Residence Study.
March 29, 1872 – The Arnold Arboretum (the nations oldest arboretum) formally comes into existence when, at the discretion of three Boston trustees (George B. Emerson, John James Dixwell, and Francis E. Parker), a residuary bequest of over $100,000 from New Bedford (Mass.) merchant James Arnold is legally transferred to the Harvard Corporation to develop a scientific station for the study and cultivation of trees. The Corporation agrees to let the fund grow to $150,000 before devoting the net income to (1) maintaining an institution to be known as the Arnold Arboretum and (2) supporting an Arnold Professor to oversee it. The Corporation also agrees to locate the Arboretum on 120 acres in the Jamaica Plain/Forest Hills section of West Roxbury (Boston) left to it by Benjamin Bussey. (Subsequent additions increase the size to more than 265 acres.)
The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations presents Per Wästberg, a member of the Nobel Prize Committee of the Swedish Academy. Wästberg will discuss The Nobel Prize: Who Gets It and Who Does Not, on Thursday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m., at the Memorial Church. This is the inaugural Peter J. Gomes Lecture.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, March 16. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Harvard fencing sends three to NCAA Championships Junior foiler Ben Schmidt has been selected to compete at the NCAA Fencing Championships slated for March 21-24 at Drew University in Madison,…
The way the word model is used in academic discourse can seem a bit of a letdown for those who grew up gluing together miniature aircraft carriers from boxes full of tiny plastic parts or stretching tissue paper over the balsa frameworks of World War I biplanes. Too often in academe models turn out to be something entirely abstract – numerical constructions that exist only in the electronic environment of a computer.
To the tune of 85-58, the North Carolina Tar Heels tripped up the Harvard womens basketball team this past Saturday (March 16) at the Big Dance in Chapel Hill. Capitalizing on superior quickness and physical play – and the Crimsons cold shooting (33 percent) – the fourth-seeded Tar Heels, who led by 18 at the half, broke the game open with a 13-0 run early in the second quarter. Ivy League Rookie of the Year Reka Cserny led the Crimson with 16 points, while sophomore Tricia Tubridy made some noise with four blocks. The loss capped an Ivy title winning campaign for the Crimson (22-6), and the Ivy Leagues highest NCAA Tournament seeding at 13.
Talk about a turnaround. After dropping seven of their final 10 regular season games, the Harvard mens hockey teams postseason hopes werent exactly sky high. Yet with a most unusual three game win streak under their belt: all OT wins – against Brown, Clarkson, and Ivy Champion Cornell – the Crimson suddenly finds itself thrust into the thick of the 2002 NCAA Tournament. Beating Cornell in double overtime 4-3 on Saturday, March 16, in Lake Placid, N.Y., the Crimson extended its very own March madness by capturing its sixth ECAC title, its first since 1994, while receiving an automatic bid to the NCAA regionals.
William Christie 66, internationally acclaimed harpsichordist, conductor, musicologist, and teacher, will receive the eighth annual Harvard Arts Medal.
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