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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 …
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 …
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 …
Abreu, Menino, Pagels, and Oprah: The Honorands
During the Morning Exercises of the 362nd Commencement, on May 30, Harvard will confer honorary degrees on six men and three women, the University reports —among them a preeminent environmental economist, a public-health leader, a long-serving mayor, a …
Sanctions Complications
The College’s impending sanctions on members of single-gender final clubs, fraternities, and sororities have engendered fierce, even bitter, disagreements over students’ rights, governance, and whether the policy will effect needed changes in …
The Lawyer Librettist
“Lucifer’s car was towed,” someone announced to the room—they’d have to start without him. The three Fates reviewed some new choreography; by the piano, Persephone, a tall soprano, nervously rolled a pencil between her fingers as she approached a tricky …
Issue: January-February 2017
John Adams at Harvard
Editor’s note: As early-action applicants to the College class of 2021 anxiously await a response, the account of an admissions ordeal in 1751 may offer perspective. Richard Alan Ryerson ’64 includes the passage in his new book, John Adams’s Republic: The …
Issue: November-December 2016
Probing the Microbial World Within Us
The most versatile chemists in the world live inside us. Trillions of microbes, of several hundred species, an aggregation containing 150 times as many unique genes as a human, make our bodies their home. More biological activity may take place between …
Issue: July-August 2021
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 …
Brevia
Green Goals A new task force, appointed by President Drew Faust on February 27, will examine Harvard’s greenhouse-gas emissions and recommend University goals for reducing them; it is to report by the end of the academic year. Brooks professor of …
Issue: May-June 2008
Exact Changes
In 2002—the year the Argentine peso collapsed, eliminating half the scheduled shows in their South American tour—husband-and-wife bandmates Damon Krukowski ’85 and Naomi Yang ’86 flew to neighboring Brazil to play the rest of the dates. The trip was a …
Issue: March-April 2016
Brevia
2+2 = M.B.A. Harvard Business School (HBS) has launched a deferred-admissions program for future M.B.A. candidates, aiming to attract liberal-arts majors in science, government, or other fields who might not have considered such a degree. Undergraduates …
Issue: November-December 2007
Capital Punishment’s Persistence
Among the reasons why the United States might be considered exceptional, there’s one that puts it in unexpected company: along with China, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, it ranks as one of the world’s top executioners. Because most countries have abolished …
Issue: January-February 2016
Six Harvard Students Win Rhodes Scholarships
The Rhodes Trust has announced that five Harvard seniors have been awarded American Rhodes Scholarships this fall. Among them, one is vice president of the Harvard Islamic Society and co-founder of the Ivy League Muslim Council, a second is pursuing …
Giants
B oston brahmin. The towering Adams University Professor emeritus Bernard Bailyn, Ph.D. ’53, LL.D. ’99, concludes his new collection of essays (see Open Book ) with an appendix containing his Memorial Minutes for two fellow towering Harvard historians. …
Issue: March-April 2020