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A Fictional Century
In the opening pages of his new book, Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel , Edwin Frank ’82 tries to explain exactly what he’s up to. This turns out to be a slippery task. Stranger Than Fiction is a book about books, but it’s not a …
Issue: November-December 2024
Harvard, H.H.R., Houghton
Henry Hobson Richardson , A.B. 1859, the leading nineteenth-century American architect—Boston’s Trinity Church, a major role in the design of the New York State Capitol, libraries, important commercial buildings, sumptuous homes—happily left his mark on …
Issue: November-December 2024
My Zero-Minute Commute to Zoom University
During my first semester of college, I slept roughly 150 feet from my 10:30 a.m. humanities lecture. Drunk on my newfound freedom, I wanted to set my alarm as late as possible. At first, since I was used to driving to high school, I went for a …
Reconfiguring Radcliffe
The institutional transformation of Radcliffe into an center for advanced study will be followed by physical changes, as the institute reclaims long-leased buildings for its own use during the next few years. A planning study undertaken by architects …
Issue: January-February 2003
Bearing Witness to Terrorism
On Monday night , students clipped on name tags, shuffled through metal detectors, and placed their phones in yellow manila envelopes, bracing themselves to witness unfathomable horrors. In Harvard Art Museums’ Menschel Hall, around 150 Harvard affiliates …
Beyond Wages in the Workplace
The terms of employment Harvard offers its lowest-paid and part-time workers would change significantly if the recommendations of a faculty and administrative committee are adopted. The recommendations, issued May 4, include educating entry-level workers …
Two Buildings, Many Obstacles
Two Buildings, Many Obstacles Permit hurdles remained as this magazine went to press, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' (FAS) long-delayed effort to cluster the government department and 11 regional studies centers in neighboring buildings is at an …
Reworking the Workplace
American labor law is broken, argues a report released in late January by Clean Slate for Worker Power , a project of Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program. This is not just an academic problem, the report argues: in an era of flat wages and …
Issue: March-April 2020
Sexual Harassment Survivors Condemn Harvard's Investigation Process
On Monday evening , four women who have accused former Harvard government professor Jorge Domínguez of sexual misconduct spoke out about their experiences and criticized Harvard’s response to complaints like theirs. Calling the University’s response …
Off the Shelf
City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present, by Alex Krieger, professor in practice of urban design (Harvard, $35). Americans romanticize the pastoral countryside and clustering in suburbs, but cities—and visions of better …
Issue: January-February 2020
Speaking Pheromone
P ellegrino University Professor emeritus E.O. (Edward Osborne) Wilson has been acclaimed for work across an astonishing range of life sciences: study of individual ant genera; explicating biodiversity and sociobiology; and, of late, increasingly urgent …
Issue: November-December 2021
Goal-Oriented
Football player John McCluskey '66 first put things into perspective during his senior year. "My mind was beginning to drift a bit," he says about the fall of 1965. "I mean, football was important, but I'd pick up the news paper and read about what was …
Issue: November-December 2004
Clarifying the Rules of Protest
In an email to the Harvard community on Friday afternoon, Interim President Alan M. Garber and Harvard’s deans released a statement clarifying University policy regarding “the guarantees and limitations” in campus protest and dissent. The clarification, …
The Way of Trout
Strange to say, swimming through rough water may actually be easier than swimming across a calm pond. At least that's true for many kinds of fish, whose body structure allows them to capitalize on turbulence and use the water's energy to propel themselves …
Issue: March-April 2004
Aging Gracefully at Home
As board president of Staying Put in New Canaan, Tom Towers, M.B.A. ’64, believes in self-reliance. The Connecticut organization, modeled after Boston’s Beacon Hill Village, provides practical services, classes, and community connections for town …
Issue: January-February 2008