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George Pierce Baker had been teaching playwriting in English 47 when he had an epiphany: No critical comment from a professor could possibly be...
Off the Shelf
Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence, by A.J. Langguth 55 (Simon & Schuster, $30). This gripping history of...
Challenges on the Field and Off
Beset by an ugly string of off-season incidents, the football team sought to make amends on the playing field. After pounding Holy Cross, 31-14...
Letters from our readers
Summing Up Summers The article on, and interview with, Lawrence Summers (Summers in Summary, September-October, page 56) should be required...
Bigger Biology
When a first draft of the human genome was sequenced in 2001, biology suddenly became much bigger. The genomethree billion DNA letters long...
The Business of Teaching
Harvard Business School (HBS) classes are taught interactively by the case methodand by the professors themselves, who also do the grading...
Zane Grey—profile of a novelist
Brief life of an American original: 1872-1939
Beyond the Core
The Task Force on General Education (TFGE), commissioned last spring, has issued a preliminary report suggesting a significant change in College students course of study...
Money-Management Makeover
During the past 18 months, HMC has operated in an environment of “enormous fluidity,” El-Erian said, weathering the loss of “tremendous talent...”
Bruce Rogers and His Centaur
In Harvard University Press: A History, editor and historian Max Hall writes, "Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), an urbane, scholarly, meticulous, ingenious, roving man from Indiana...