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A More Generous, Capacious America
When Werner Sollors was a boy, growing up among the ruins of postwar Germany, he had at best an indistinct idea of the distant country he would spend his adult life trying to understand. There was no sign yet that he would, decades later, become one of …
Issue: January-February 2025
Lessons from the Limelight
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Learning from Performers debuted 30 years ago. Jerold S. Kayden ’75, M.C.R.-J.D. ’79, hatched the idea for it and Myra Mayman, head of the Office for the Arts, embraced it. “I was president …
Issue: September-October 2005
Congo Report
The charismatic, maverick field anthropologist Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam ’25 moved to what was then the Belgian Congo in the 1930s to study the Mbuti Pygmies. On a visit back to the United States, he met New York artist Anne Eisner, who was seduced by …
Issue: September-October 2005
Cheering Chow
Each year, about 19 million adult Americans report the onset of depression, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. That’s 9.5 percent of our adult population. In Japan and Korea, the figure is drastically lower—around 2 percent. …
Issue: September-October 2005
Laying Out
On the volleyball court, Sandra Zeng ’21 lives by one rule: never let the ball touch the ground. So when opposing hitters go up for a spike, she trains her eyes on their shoulders. “The shoulders tell a lot,” Zeng says. If they’re angled toward one …
Issue: January-February 2021
University People
Development Leader to Depart With the Harvard Campaign headed for a record finish as of June 30, the same day Drew Faust’s presidency concludes, Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74 has made public her plan to step down as vice president for alumni affairs and …
Issue: March-April 2018
Holocaust Remembrance Exhibit Comes to Harvard
On Monday afternoon , Jewish students, Harvard administrators, and community members gathered in front of Widener Library to open “ Hate Ends Now ,” a nationally touring exhibit that displays a replica of the cattle cars used to transport Jews and others …
Cultural Commitments
As Harvard emerges from a global pandemic that has upset work norms everywhere, it faces its own questions about the kind of workplace it will become. The University took a productive step when, despite initial inclinations, it largely maintained service …
Issue: March-April 2022
The Wages of Affluence
Propelled by a surge in funds from the endowment, and to a lesser extent by a wave of gifts from the final phase of the University Campaign, Harvard concluded its fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, with a $120-million operating surplus on an operating …
Prophet of Self-Esteem
John Taylor Canfield '66 dished up his first bowl of Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit in 1993. A native of Fort Worth and a graduate of the Linsly Military Institute in West Virginia, he concentrated in …
Urban Forays
Compared to that vast metropolitan zone to the southwest where concrete environs pack in the summer heat like a giant beehive oven, Greater Boston is an airy, pleasant place to spend the summer. The student population ebbs and easy access to open space, …
Issue: July-August 2015
Ring of the Road
Currently, 94 million Americans own a cellular phone, and 90 percent of those owners make calls while driving. Although cell phones appeared on the U.S. market only in the mid 1980s, a majority of Americans will own one by the year 2005 if the trend …
Rose-Colored Passes
The translation of Neil Rose from benchwarmer to record-breaking passer was completed in a span of less than 13 minutes. In that interval, quarterback Rose and his mates sprang three big-play touchdowns to overtake Brown, last season's Ivy League …
Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent
A dissent by Justice Elena Kagan, J.D. ’86, in June illustrated why she won acclaim as a writer when she began to publish opinions after joining the Supreme Court in 2010. In the case, the six Republican-appointed justices made it much harder for the …
Issue: November-December 2022
The Campaign Computes
As it proceeded during the fall semester, The Harvard Campaign featured a penultimate school’s launch (medicine); another galvanizing gift (computer sciences); and interesting evidence of the effects ofsmaller-scale philanthropy across the University, …
Issue: January-February 2015