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Last and Best
In sports, as in life, a momentary twist of fate can change everything that follows. So it is with wrestler Olabode “Bode” Ogunwole ’07 (pronounced bo- day o- goow -o-lay), who began his senior year as the number-two ranked college heavyweight in the …
Issue: March-April 2007
Dorm Decor
"To me [my room] will always be haunted by my companions who have been there, by the books that I have read there, by the pleasure and the pain that I have felt there, and by a laughing group of bright, fresh faces, that have rendered it sunny in my eyes …
Issue: September-October 2002
Why Diverse Literature Matters
What role do educators have in changing and shaping the cultural attitudes and social practices that still—consciously and subconsciously—reinforce what W.E.B. Du Bois, most famously, called the color line? Reading Toni Morrison's God Help The Child …
Winter Wellness
In recent years, University Marshal Jacqueline O’Neill and her daughter, Leigh, have spent part of the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day at the Canyon Ranch resort in Lenox, Massachusetts. The tradition began when Leigh was in college. “It’s not …
Issue: January-February 2007
Life Lessons
In a room where somber faces are the norm, Steve Cappiello is beaming. The tall, muscular 36-year-old points to his feet with a kid’s delight and declares, “Today was the first day I tied my shoes in a year. It sounds small, but it was big for me. I never …
Issue: January-February 2006
The Missing Middle
This academic year, Harvard’s campus has been a political powder keg. Many commentators are rightly concerned about free speech at this University and others, but the current national discussion has overlooked the harmful effects of its own presence. A …
Issue: July-August 2024
“The Instrument of Your Fate”
The life lesson that grasped my soul was born amid the throes of war: If one does not manage the instrument of his fate, it will manage him. Wars have always produced wounds and soldiers have always suffered depression, and even committed suicide, as a …
The Library’s Healers
Dorothea ("Thea") Burns is hunched over a table holding a scalpel. Ever so gently she teases off fragments of a thick, rigid, cardboard mat that was glued, probably in the late nineteenth century, to the back of the work on paper that she now wishes to …
Issue: May-June 2004
Who Are You, Anyway?
I remember when my younger sister Charlotte received her acceptance letter from Harvard. I shrieked and performed an atavistic dance of sibling glee among the pizza boxes and Diet Coke cans in my Dunster House common room. Charlotte was subdued. She …
Seeing the Ice
A.J. Mleczko ’97 (’99) could always see the ice. As a player, that was one thing she counted on, even more than the goals and assists (although there were plenty of those, too). But her ability to read the ice—to anticipate the next pass, the next shot, …
Issue: March-April 2019
Is Pedagogy About Us?
During a history seminar in my sophomore year, we opened class with a question derived from an assigned reading: What civic and political ills had made certain regions of Chicago sites of gang violence? We mulled the question for a few directionless …
Issue: January-February 2024
Sustaining a “Delicate Experiment”
Chapman professor of business administration Nitin Nohria was appointed dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) on May 4, 2010. Excerpts from his speeches and writings appear below: In his speech on the occasion of his appointment, Nohria spoke about the …
Issue: July-August 2010
Harvard Honors John Adams, Wendy Kopp, Mario Molina, Fareed Zakaria
During the Morning Exercises of the 361 st Commencement, on May 24, Harvard conferred honorary degrees on eight distinguished guests—among them two Nobel laureates, an American civil-rights pioneer, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer. (The honorands …
From Flowers to Race Cars
Riddle of the day: Where can you find a showroom packed with Indianapolis 500 race cars and a “Hidden Hollow” playground featuring a waterfall and a tree house inspired by medieval churches, along with 800 types of day lilies in bloom and the most …
Issue: July-August 2018
News Briefs
Dean Duo As the Harvard presidency transitions from Drew Faust to Lawrence S. Bacow, two deanships were filled by appointments announced late in spring term. Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Paul professor of constitutional law and professor of history, has been …
Issue: July-August 2018