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“Cut Missal Up…”
W hen a colleague chanced upon a stray medieval manuscript page in the Harvard Theatre Collection in 2018, then-Houghton Library curator William P. Stoneman knew whom to call: Peter Kidd, a medieval-art expert. Kidd’s detective work identified the page as …
Issue: March-April 2020
Personal History
Adams University professor emeritus Bernard Bailyn, Ph.D. ’53, LL.D. ’99, remains a giant among early-American historians, and among the ranks of Harvard University citizens. Illuminating History: A Retrospective of Seven Decades (W.W. Norton, $28.95) …
Issue: March-April 2020
“A Step Up from the Usual Beautiful”
Cliff Amero has led tours of the Essex River estuary for almost 30 years. The unique coastline, just north of Gloucester, with its snaking Great Marsh inlets, sand bars, and wild islands “is always changing,” he says, “moving with the tides, the wind, and …
Issue: September-October 2020
Are All Calories Equal?
Low fat. Low carb. Vegan. Atkins. Paleo. South Beach. Zone. As television shows, magazine covers, podcasts, and books release an endless flood of diet advice, the average person finds it difficult at best to know how to find a sustainable method of weight …
Issue: May-June 2016
Adams House Will Be Renewed after Lowell
Adams House will be the sixth undergraduate residence to be renewed, House faculty deans Judy and Sean Palfrey announced in an email today. The renewal, like the renovations of other undergraduate Houses, will make Adams wheelchair-accessible, add new …
University People
Commencement Speaker Jim Lehrer Courtesy of WSIU-TV Jim Lehrer , executive editor and anchor of PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (and founder, with Robert MacNeil, of its predecessor), a frequent moderator of United States presidential debates, will be the …
Issue: May-June 2006
Cranes Crescendo
The already torrid pace of construction around campus is about to intensify. The renovation and expansion of Winthrop House, the largest undergraduate-residence “renewal” to date, will surge toward completion in August—and the even larger Lowell House …
Issue: May-June 2017
Ross Gay Finds the Right Ground at the Radcliffe Institute
By the end of the hour, Ross Gay had people all but swaying in the aisles. A poet and professor at Indiana University whose 2015 collection, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude , was a National Book Award finalist, Gay is a Bate Fellow this year at the …
Headwinds
In winter 2012, as Harvard was pursuing its first NCAA tournament berth since 1946, Stemberg head coach Tommy Amaker occasionally began practices by telling his players that the quest for the league title was like climbing a mountain—the wind blew hardest …
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet’s poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” a favorite at weddings, is one of the most anthologized examples of early American verse. But few realize its author was also an extraordinarily courageous woman whose spirit and faith helped shape …
Issue: May-June 2005
NFL Referee Ron Torbert Makes the Tough Calls
“It’s hard for me to watch a football game as a fan,” says Ron Torbert, J.D. ’88, a veteran National Football League (NFL) referee who was crew chief at the 2022 Super Bowl. “TV doesn’t show the game the way I like to watch it. TV follows the ball. As an …
Issue: November-December 2022
“We’re All Animals”
What catches the eye first are the artist’s own eyes: in her blue jay’s straight-ahead stare, the affable alertness of a mallard drake, the closed-lidded stillness of an owl butterfly. For her self-portrait photographic series Zoomorphics, Shelby …
Issue: January-February 2021
The Miller-Hunn Award Winners
This year, the newly renamed Miller-Hunn Awards—the original award, which recognized the work of Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, now also honors recently retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71 (see “ Admissions, through the Ages ,” …
Issue: November-December 2019
From Lewis and Clark to Michael Brown
F erguson, Missouri, the suburb north of St. Louis where 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed by police officer Darren Wilson in 2014, is also home to a multinational Fortune 500 company: Emerson Electric. After the U.S. Department of Justice released its …
Issue: May-June 2020
Off the Shelf
Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, by Melvin Konner, Ph.D. ’73, M.D. ’85 (Norton, $26.95). A sweeping, searching argument, from “biology and…the domains of our thoughts and feelings influenced by biology,” that “women are not …
Issue: July-August 2015