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Analysis: Pedagogy, Practice, and Teaching Innovation at Harvard
By chance, the Boston Globe on October 16 ran comments by President Faust and her three predecessors on the occasion of Harvard’s 375th anniversary, looking ahead to its 400th. Focusing on a theme he has sounded for decades, Derek Bok , president from …
The Corporation’s 360-Year Tune-Up
The Harvard Corporation’s self-review of its operations and organization- -begun in 2009 and first disclosed to the community that December 15 by President Drew Faust --has culminated in a series of measures to modernize and, in part, refocus the work of …
Issue: January-February 2011
Twenty-eighth, and First
Honored historian, seasoned scholar steeped in universities’ distinctive role, adept academic administrator—Drew Gilpin Faust forcefully took possession of her Harvard presidency during inaugural celebrations and a formal installation ceremony on October …
Issue: November-December 2007
"Knitt Together...As One"
I stand honored by your trust, inspired by your charge. I am grateful to the Governing Boards for their confidence, and I thank all of you for gathering in these festival rites. I am indebted to my three predecessors, sitting behind me, for joining me …
Issue: November-December 2007
Installation Address
Drew Faust gave the following address for her installation as Harvard’s 28th president on Friday, Oct. 12, 2007. To view additional coverage of the Installation festivities, including additional audio recordings and an exclusive slideshow, see our special …
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Justice Breyer A comment from an uninformed foreigner. It seems to me that the U.S. Supreme Court is the very insurance that the government reflects what people want, to some extent anyway, that many foreigners look on with envy (“ A Workable Democracy ,” …
Issue: May-June 2017
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DNA Drawing Your discussion of using gene drives to combat malaria was very even-handed (“ Editing an End to Malaria? ” May-June, page 37); but DNA is, and must be, right-handed in the twist of its helix. Alas, on your very clever cover illustration it is …
Issue: July-August 2016
Graduate School of Design Launches $110-Million Campaign
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) launched its $110-million-plus fundraising campaign on September 12 and 13 with a series of events highlighting the school’s “grounded visionaries”: architects, planners, and designers who are at once free to …
Lord Mayor for a Day
Recently , a news story caught my eye: an old friend and Dunster classmate, Michael Mainelli, was elected the 695 th Lord Mayor of London. While we both graduated from Harvard in 1984, Michael began as class of 1981, interrupting his undergraduate studies …
How Same-Sex Marriage Came to Be
Fifty years ago, every state criminalized homosexual sex, and even the American Civil Liberties Union did not object. The federal government would not hire people who were openly gay or permit them to serve in the military. Police routinely raided gay …
Issue: March-April 2013
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Fie on Al Franken Your fawning feature article on the aggressive and obnoxious Al Franken was extremely ill taken (" Al Franken: You Can Call Me Senator "). Franken, whose ideas and value system are comprehensively wrong, is an embarrassment to everyone, …
Issue: May-June 2012
Investing vs. Harvesting
Pforzheimer professor of teaching and learning Richard J. Light likely knows about more American colleges and universities—small and large, public and private—than any other scholar of higher education. He has met with the leaders, trustees, faculty and …
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Issue: July-August 2022
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The Death Penalty I am not familiar with the Steikers’ work, other than through the comprehensive article in the November-December 2016 issue (“ Death Throes ,” by Lincoln Caplan, page 56). However, over the years (I suppose like most lawyers), I have …
Issue: January-February 2017
The Way of the Critic
In 2012, New York Times film critic Anthony “Tony” Scott ’87 (writing under his byline, A.O. Scott) reviewed a big Hollywood release, The Avengers . He praised some aspects of the movie and bemoaned others, specifically “its sacrifice of originality on …
Issue: November-December 2019
The Science of Sex
The “Sins of the Mother,” trumpets a headline in the journal Science , warning of a “maternal assault” against children. Another headline calls mothers “smoking guns,” the source of incalculable harm. What wrongs have these mothers committed? Not any sort …
Issue: November-December 2019