Year: 2005

This is the second in a series of Gazette articles highlighting some of the many initiatives and charities that Harvard affiliates can support through this months Community Gifts Through Harvard Campaign.

For the third year in a row, close to 4,000 students have applied for admission to Harvard under its nonbinding Early Action program. This number is in stark contrast to the fall of 2002, when early application numbers soared to over 7,600. At that time, Harvard followed a now-modified requirement of the National Association of…

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Nov. 14. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Nov. 4, 1949 – On the eve of the Princeton football game, Harvard has its first riot in more than a decade. Fueled by a Harvard pep rally, visiting Princetonians,…

At its fifth meeting of the year on Nov. 16, the Faculty Council received a report of its Allston Subcommittee on their visit to the Harvard in Allston exhibit room, held further discussion of the report of the Committee on General Education, and voted to approve the Harvard Summer School Courses of Instruction for 2006.

Burnished by a setting sun and keeping company with a rising moon, the Kirkland House tower looks very handsome indeed.

The Peabody Museums Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration is always a spirited affair – with its live marimba music, bouquets of flowers, and powerful images. But last weeks event, hosted by the museum and the Consulate General of Mexico, was particularly dynamic, featuring two inspirational altar installations created by artist Eric…

Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Kodansha Publishers recently hosted the 11th annual Edwin O. Reischauer/Kodansha Ltd. Commemorative Symposium and the tenth annual awarding of the Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies.

Maybe it wasnt quite the end of history that Richard Fisher described during the Manshel Lecture in American Foreign Policy last week (Nov. 3).

Salman Rushdie was at the First Parish Church in Cambridge on Monday (Nov. 7), to read from his new novel, Shalimar the Clown, and to discuss the challenges facing a storyteller in a politically troubled and morally perplexing world.

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study recently celebrated the life and legacy of Mary Ingraham Bunting-Smith (1910 – 1998), known to the Harvard-Radcliffe community as Polly Bunting, president of Radcliffe College from 1960 to 1972. The event included remarks by Elaine Yaffe, author of Mary Ingraham Bunting: Her Two Lives (Frederic C. Beil, 2005), the…

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 17, 2005, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Geraldine Brooks recalled lying on a Kurdish rooftop in 1991, looking down at a tank below and hearing rifle and rifle-propelled-grenade fire. She was with a group of male reporters, who were excitedly talking about getting to the lines where Kurds were engaging Saddam Husseins government troops.

FAS forum open to students, faculty on Nov. 16 Students and faculty are invited to a Faculty of Arts and Sciences Forum on General Education and Concentrations Wednesday (Nov. 16)…

Herzlinger named one of health care’s most powerful people Modern Healthcare magazine has named Regina E. Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, one of the 100 most…