Tag Archives: Harvard

Affirmative Action Admissions

Posted on 11/21/2018 by

If you’re interested in what’s happening at Harvard these days (as everyone in Cambridge is) I suggest you read Hua Hsu’s recent article, ‘School Colors: The Fight About Who Gets into the Ivy League,’ in The New Yorker, October 15, … Continue reading →

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Glazed Tile Madeleine

Posted on 10/02/2014 by

Marcel Proust took one of the most famous bites in the world, gnashing into a delectable madeleine, and thus triggered Remembrances of Things Past. Last night I experienced a similar deja vu, though, being an architect rather than a foodie, … Continue reading →

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Tata Hall

Posted on 06/19/2014 by

Harvard Business School occupies a majestic bend on the Boston side of the Charles River. McKim Mead and White designed the original Georgian campus in the 1920’s, with landscape design by Frederick Law Olmstead. The twelve buildings organized around courtyards … Continue reading →

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Larry Summers is Nearsighted

Posted on 08/04/2013 by

The third in a series of posts inspired by What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel. When Larry Summers was the President of Harvard, one day he opened Morning Prayer at Memorial Chapel with … Continue reading →

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