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1928 Massachusetts reports an over-supply of trained teachers. Referring to this "interesting condition of affairs," the editors note...

Off the Shelf

A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, by Lizabeth Cohen, Jones professor of American studies (Knopf...

At Home on the Range

Harvard brothers tend to a cattle ranch in Wyoming

by Nell Porter-Brown

Poetry and Politics

On November 12, two days before poet Tom Paulin was scheduled to deliver the annual Morris Gray Lecture, sponsored by the department of English...

University People

Enterprise Editor Now at the helm of Harvard Business Review is Thomas A. Stewart '70, who was appointed editor in October, succeeding Suzanne...

Simple Hosts

There is no florist in the lobby of Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston. In fact, anyone who attempts to deliver a get-well begonia or a...

The Blaxploitation Era

Three of last summer's popular film comedies—Barbershop, Undercover Brother, and Austin Powers: Goldmember—recalled, in one way or...

by Craig Lambert

The Joys of Adult Education

Nearly 30 years after his college graduation, John W. Cobb '49, Gp '94, finally hunkered down to tackle what he'd always wanted to learn:...

by Nell Porter-Brown

Mountain Man

John E.V.C. Moon '52, Ph.D. '68, retired recently, having spent the greater part of his career as an historian of biological and chemical...

Seven-Week Itch

Coaches and athletes throughout the Ivy League gnashed their teeth this fall over a new policy that the Ivy presidents put in place last...

Where Credit is Due

A significant change in Harvard's fundraising policies came into effect December 1. Henceforth, graduates of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...

College Studies

The undergraduate curriculum review now taking shape promises to range widely. Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean William C. Kirby launched...