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Protesting, at Home and on the Streets
On the morning of Saturday, May 30, Elijah C. DeVaughn ’21 dressed in an all-black outfit—Adidas track pants, a shirt with “melanin” printed on it, and a pair of Chuck Taylor sneakers—donned a protective facemask, and drove from his home in Compton, …
Q & A
Listen to the live audio recording. [video:http://harvardmagazine.com/sites/default/files/media/0605-Woods.mp3 width:220 height:20] Anthony Christopher Woods, M.P.P. ’08, of the Harvard Kennedy School, delivers his Graduate English Address, “Q & A,” at …
Should Convicted Felons Serve on Juries?
Should convicted felons be allowed to serve on juries, sitting in judgment on their fellow citizens? On June 2, Premal Dharia, inaugural director of Harvard Law School’s Institute to End Mass Incarceration, moderated a discussion of this question, at an …
Melvin Miller ’56: “Not going…to stand aside”
“Well, let me just tell you that I’ve always found that I thought about things—even from the time I was in grammar school—a little differently,” said Melvin B. Miller ’56 in an interview with this magazine on the eve of his sixty-fifth reunion. “I was …
When Farmers Met Foragers
A question mark has long hovered over human transitions from hunting and gathering to farming: did agriculture spread by communication—in archaeological parlance, by diffusion? Or did the early practitioners of farming migrate, carrying their technology …
Issue: January-February 2008
Notes on Doctoring
During his first year as a neurology resident, Michael P.H. Stanley ’13 was paged to the room of a delirious patient. The terminally ill man, agitated and defiant, had gotten out of bed, taken off his hospital gown, and was packing his suitcase to go …
Issue: January-February 2022
University Arts Initiative Launched
President Drew Faust made the inaugural performance at the New College Theatre, on November 1, the setting for her announcement of a University-wide arts initiative. A faculty task force involving several Harvard schools has been chartered to examine in a …
“Generational Pivot”
At Tuesday’s Kennedy School Forum event with former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86 , there were echoes of another campus arena: Lavietes Pavilion, the home of Harvard basketball . For one thing, the men’s basketball team filled three rows up …
When Water Is Safer Than Land
“.… you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land….” Warsan Shire, “Home” The jubilation that accompanied the brief flowering of the Arab Spring is long gone …
Issue: January-February 2016
Controversial Visitor
Even before he arrived in the United States for a 12-day speaking tour, Mohammad Khatami, the former president of Iran, stirred controversy. Khatami heads the International Center for Dialogue among Nations, a nongovernmental organizaion for which he has …
Issue: November-December 2006
The Stadium, Returfed
Record it for the history books: the last of 646 football games played on natural grass at Harvard Stadium since 1903 is over and gone—the Crimson’s 29-3 rout of Pennsylvania on November 12, 2005. This summer, crews are replacing the grass with a new …
Issue: July-August 2006
A Sunny Celebration
Greater Boston had a cream-puff of a winter—particularly in comparison to the relentless battering of 2014-2015, when icicles by the ton made it hazardous to walk near many of the Yard’s buildings. But the spring was very poky: it snowed on April 3 and 4, …
Unfinished Business
The conclusion of Drew Faust’s presidency coincides with Michael D. Smith’s announced departure from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) deanship. Faust and Smith, like Neil L. Rudenstine and Jeremy R. Knowles, held their offices for the duration of a …
Issue: July-August 2018
Tough Love
Editor's Note: Nicholas Dawidoff '85 has just published The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World , a richly detailed portrait of Alexander Gerschenkron, the economic historian who was a member of the Harvard faculty from 1948, when he …
Issue: July-August 2002
Also Heard
[ T ] he fourth and last thing that I learned at Harvard Business School, and the thing that may be most important to the people here today, is to take personal risks.… Most of you are like me—you leave here broke, completely broke. I was $60,000 in …
Issue: July-August 2005