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A Perforating Doubt
I remember getting very worried during my freshman year. People seemed to care about grades and GPAs and extracurriculars an awful lot more than I did. I found myself getting stressed in spite of myself—stressing about not being stressed. I was worrying …
Issue: January-February 2013
The Whistle
John West , M.B.A. ’95, golfs with his two young sons, Jack and Danny. “They love it, but they wouldn’t sit and watch a four-hour game on TV,” he reports. “Yet if you give them clips with the game’s highlights and interviews with players, then they will. …
Issue: July-August 2012
The Unruly Academy
One fall day in 1967, Neil L. Rudenstine, Ph.D. ’64, a “recently minted assistant professor,” found himself walking by Mallinckrodt Hall, where a crowd of students had blocked the entry to impede the work of a Dow Chemical Company recruiter, on campus to …
Issue: March-April 2025
Dropping Nothing: Expanding Time
In July I did the most un-Harvard of things: I dropped my summer-school class. And the moment I did so, I felt amazingly happy. Being a Harvard Summer School proctor, working two part-time jobs, and trying to get my independent philosophy reading done, …
Summer Reflections
Despite having spent countless hours on the Internet, there is only one Google search I distinctly remember making. One day, when I lived at home in Ireland, I was so utterly and completely fed up with school that I typed “summer abroad” into Google and …
Issue: September-October 2012
Extracurriculars
Seasonal The Game • November 19 at noon The 128th gridiron competition against Yale takes place in New Haven this year. www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/index Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society Christmas Concert • December 3 at 8 p.m. …
Issue: November-December 2011
Words to Live By
The graduates heard in multiple ways how they might lead their lives. Herewith, four samples. Full texts and audio and video recordings of these and other Commencement week speeches are available at harvardmag.com/commencement-2011 . “Finish Your Own …
Issue: July-August 2011
Fathoming Metabolism
A thimbleful of your blood. To Robert Gerszten, that’s like a window on your well-being. In some cases, it may even let him see into the future of your health. Gerszten and his colleague Greg Lewis work at the leading edge of an emerging new …
Issue: May-June 2011
Books behind Bars
An “earnest Yeshiva boy,” Avi Steinberg ’02 never thought he’d spend his days in prison. But in 2005, when offered the post of librarian at the Suffolk County House of Correction in Boston, he took it, glad to trade writing obituaries for the Boston Globe …
Issue: January-February 2011
"Habits Are Values in Disguise": The Phi Beta Kappa Exercises
The Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, held the Tuesday morning of each Commencement week in Sanders Theatre, are in a way the most intellectual and cultural of the graduation events, complete with poems, song, and a history-laden oration (see program ). …
President Drew Gilpin Faust's Report to the Alumni
President Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard’s 28th president, delivers her Report to the Alumni at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. Distinguished guests, graduates and your families, alumni and alumnae, colleagues and friends – witches, …
Storybook Ending
Rebounding from a rocky start, the football team defeated its first six Ivy League opponents and scripted a stunning finale by routing a previously unbeaten Yale squad, 37-6. The Yale Bowl upset dashed Old Eli’s hopes of completing a perfect season, and …
Issue: January-February 2008
Modern and Historic
More than 500 people turned out in June for the inaugural gala picnic at Philip Johnson’s Glass House , in New Canaan, Connecticut. The long-awaited event raised $750,000 for further preservation of the most celebrated modern house in the Northeast. …
Issue: September-October 2007
An “Oracle of Aqua”
“Ours is a society of sensual eunuchs, impotent to the callings of the wildness within and as a result, the pull of that which resides outside,” writes Robert Lawrence France in his book Deep Immersion: The Experience of Water . “Transcending our minds, …
Issue: January-February 2007
Extracurriculars
Enjoy a range of offerings in and around Harvard Square this winter, from German folk dancing, Christmas carols, and a Da de los Muertos festival to contemporary Chinese art, French documentaries, and an exhibit on arthropods. Seasonal Exhibitions Nature …
Issue: November-December 2006