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“Inventur” Revisits Postwar Germany
Entering Inventur: Art in Germany, 1943-1955, visitors first face a small, drab painting hanging alone on the wall. It depicts a Cubist heap of white doorways, gaping like a chorus of ghostly mouths, the lintels heaped like bones. Fallen Fa ç ades (Berlin …
A Long Road
In August 2012, Tommy Amaker welcomed an unusual visitor to Lavietes Pavilion: Kentucky men’s basketball coach John Calipari. It was mostly a social call; Calipari was in town to visit his daughter. He dropped by practice as the Crimson prepared for a …
Football 2017: Harvard 3, Yale 24
Not our day. Not our year. On Saturday at the Yale Bowl, Harvard went to extreme lengths to prove that you can’t win if you can’t score. In the 134th playing of The Game, the Crimson—partly undone by two slippery option pitches—were humbled by the …
Football 2017: Harvard 14, Cornell 17
That’s why they play the games. Last Saturday at unseasonably warm Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York, in one of the most shocking Ivy League upsets of recent times, Cornell—picked to finish last in the preseason Ivy media poll—defeated Harvard …
Seeing the the Invisible World of Microbes
In rocks and soil , air, ponds and oceans, life is dominated by creatures that humans cannot see. Microbes thrive everywhere, from gardens and kitchens to the harshest environments on the planet: under polar ice, in hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the …
Issue: September-October 2017
Harvard Committee Recommends Banning Clubs
A Harvard committee has today recommended banning all students from joining any final club or other unrecognized social organization. The policy, modeled on that of peer institutions such as Williams and Bowdoin, would take effect beginning with students …
“Bravery, Not Perfection”
On Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard, before a tent packed level full with degree candidates in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, keynote speaker Reshma Saujani, M.P.P. ’99, was telling a story about the classroom visit a few years ago that …
A Hardwood Foundation
During the 2016-2017 season, a construction crew labored outside Lavietes Pavilion, the home of the Harvard basketball teams. Making incremental progress on a project to refurbish the 91-year-old building, the workers were mostly waiting for the season to …
Issue: May-June 2017
Connecting Body and Soul
A devout 35-year-old Latina woman with two young children lies in the intensive-care unit (ICU) of a Boston-area hospital, dying from cancer. With no sign of improvement, the medical team advises withdrawing life support, but the woman’s husband refuses. …
Issue: January-February 2017
What a Human Should Be
“We are gathering experience, ” Bauhaus workshop master Josef Albers told his students, as if art education were similar to apple-picking. “It is not an attempt to fill museums.” Between 1923 and 1933, Albers taught the Bauhaus’s introductory course, …
Issue: March-April 2019
Doris Salcedo Gives Form to Tragedy
Last month , Doris Salcedo returned to the Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá, the center of Colombia’s public life and host to some of her most famous artistic interventions. For more than 50 years, the country had been embroiled in the world’s longest civil …
The SARS Scare
In a matter of months in early 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome spread to 29 countries, killing nearly 10 percent of the people it infected. No drug could stop SARS, and the disease propagated wildly through the ranks of healthcare workers. One …
Issue: March-April 2007
Strategic Planning
Naomi Bashkansky ’25 could spend hours at a chessboard pondering the perfect move. But as a child playing in competitive tournaments with time limits, such painstaking deliberation wasn’t possible—often to her frustration. During one match when she was …
Issue: March-April 2024
Talking about Talking
As the spring semester began, Harvard faced the difficult challenge of clarifying its free speech policies and securing community adherence to them. After a tumultuous autumn with sharp campus divisions over Hamas’s terrorism and the resulting …
Issue: March-April 2024
Portrait of Peter Gomes Hung in Faculty Room
The portraits hung on the walls of the Faculty Room in University Hall—where the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) conducts its business meetings—have for some time been lightly coeducational. Historian Helen Maud Cam, installed as a professor in 1948, …