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Primus’s dentist once had him in the chair, mouth wide and jammed with oral hardware, when the dentist revealed that he had spent the morning in court in divorce proceedings initiated by his wife. “There is no pain worse,” said the dentist, drill poised, …
Issue: July-August 2009
Paper Persists
Paper lives. Two recent reminders that paper still has a purpose have come to Primus’s attention. Daniel D. Reiff ’63, Ph.D. ’70, an art historian at Fredonia State University who retired as SUNY Distinguished Service Professor emeritus in 2004, wrote …
Issue: May-June 2019
Off the Shelf
Painting with Monet, by Harmon Siegel, Ph.D. ’21, JF (Princeton, $65). A Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows performs the incredibly useful service of opening even untutored eyes to the ways artists work. Drawing on the results of Claude Monet’s …
Issue: July-August 2024
From Soaps to Solos
Operatic bass Ethan Herschenfeld ’90 never gave a thought to performing until he auditioned with his roommate, on a lark, for one of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ operettas during freshman year. He became a familiar presence on …
Issue: July-August 2008
Apply for a Fellowship
Harvard Magazine offers two fellowships to current undergraduates who are freshmen, sophomores, or juniors in Harvard College. LEDECKY FELLOWSHIPS THE BERTA GREENWALD LEDECKY UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM, supported by Jonathan J. Ledecky ’79, …
Rebuilding Churches
In college, Tim McCarthy ’93 was deeply involved in public service—as a Big Brother and head of the Freshman Urban Program steering committee, among other things—and also active in the anti-apartheid divestment movement. When he became a grad student at …
Issue: May-June 2008
Underground Party
Commuters making their way through the underground corridors of the sprawling Times Square subway station in Manhattan now have some extraordinary companions, with the completion in March of New Year’s Eve Revelers, a permanent mosaic mural adorning the …
Issue: May-June 2008
Making Music Out of DNA Loops
There is music in DNA loops. The genome, which otherwise would be the height of a refrigerator, folds into a microscopic bundle inside the nucleus of a cell, knitting itself into “loops” of genetic information. Four years ago, composer and scientist Amir …
Issue: September-October 2023
Assessing Admissions
In his new book, The Chosen , Jerome Karabel ’72, Ph.D. ’77, offers a provocative account of undergraduate admissions at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale from the late 1800s to the present—a period when the “Big Three” were transformed by the addition of …
Issue: May-June 2006
University People
Enduring Deans, Acting Executives Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Alan A. Altshuler Alan A. Altshuler, Harvard Graduate School of Design dean since early 2005, has agreed to continue to serve during the fall semester at the request of President Drew …
Issue: September-October 2007
A "Better Answer"
The search for Harvard’s twenty-eighth president began under difficult circumstances. Lawrence H. Summers’s resignation on February 21, 2006, ended his presidency far sooner than had been expected. The Corporation, whose members (excluding the president) …
Issue: July-August 2007
Godmothers of The Namesake
Mira Nair ’79 met Sooni Taraporevala ’79 in the Lowell House dining room in the fall of 1976. The two women, both of Indian descent, became friends and, nine years later, began working together on the 1988 film Salaam Bombay! —Nair as director, …
Issue: March-April 2007
A Turning Point for WHRB
Harvard’s student radio station WHRB, an innovative voice in the Boston FM market for decades, is facing a difficult turning point. David Elliott ’64, the chairman of its board of trustees since 1996 and an éminence grise at WHRB for half a century, …
Harvard Design Dean to Step Down
Mohsen Mostafavi, who was appointed dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) in August 2007 and took office the following January, announced that he will conclude his service at the end of this academic year, next June 30. His departure …
“Panic” and “Friendship” at Phi Beta Kappa
The 220th Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises, conducted Tuesday morning at 11 in Sanders Theatre, began the formal activities of Commencement week, providing the customary intellectual and artistic launch for the academic and emotional celebrations …