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Over the Moon
… The rock itself is tiny, but it has caused much excitement. … inch wide and half an inch tall, and an inconspicuous shade of dark grey, it certainly appears less interesting than the … just a few feet away from it. But it’s not the aesthetics of the rock that have caused all the excitement. It’s where …
The Fix in Fossil Fuels
… The United States is wasting more than $4 billion a year by … consumers or the economy, says Joseph Aldy, assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and a …
Issue: January-February 2014
The President on the Podium
… his presidency, Neil L. Rudenstine spoke on many hundreds of occasions, from large, public gatherings, like Commencement afternoon addresses and … services for singular scholars and steadfast supporters of Harvard. His topics ranged from the opportunities for …
Be Willing to Fail, Faust Tells Class of 2015
… In a Freshman Convocation with a twist, the class of 2015 was welcomed by President Drew Faust, dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds, and others, and then …
Legal Legroom
… Way back in 1998, a committee of faculty and administrators at Harvard Law School (HLS) began work on strategic planning for the school’s future needs, a task linking prospective … parking facility, above which the new building will rise in three years’ time. The south corner of the proposed …
Issue: January-February 2007
The Basics
… Much of my writing since last spring has been devoted to the great challenges of the day: an extraordinary public … and the Harvard Corporation. The individuals who comprise these groups bring with them extraordinary experience …
Issue: May-June 2021
Parkes Named Harvard Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean
… David C. Parkes , Colony professor of computer science, will become dean of Harvard’s Paulson … and Applied Sciences (SEAS) on October 15. An expert in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to …
26 Ways to Get into Harvard
… Quick trivia quiz. What do these names have in common: Bradstreet, Bacon, Dexter, … poet Anne Bradstreet; the Robert Bacon or Class of 1880 Gate, monumental and unused, just south of Lamont; … who would shape much of Harvard’s and the nation’s rise to international prominence in the next few decades. …
Issue: July-August 2016
Rebelling and Expelling
… year to graduate: as a pandemic worsened, seniors left professors and friends behind and dealt with a graduation ceremony held online. At least they got degrees. Shortly before the graduation of the class of 1823, 43 of 70 students were expelled, a …
Issue: September-October 2020
Off the Shelf
… Architects of an American Landscape , by Hugh Howard (Atlantic Monthly … 1864, LL.D. ’93, was creating New York’s Central Park in the late 1850s, Henry Hobson Richardson, A.B. 1859, from New … playing whist than to academics. In this joint biography of the great landscape designer and the great architect who …
Issue: March-April 2022
Off the Shelf
… A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, by Lizabeth Cohen, Jones professor of American studies (Knopf, $32.50). How did mass …
Issue: January-February 2003
Off the Shelf
… Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff , by Rosemary Mahoney … Mahoney’s book is hard to put down both because of the stickiness of a woman rowing the Nile, alone, and because of the …
Issue: July-August 2007
Off the Shelf
… The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine , translated by Norman R. Shapiro ’51, Ph.D. ’58 (University of Illinois, $80 cloth, $25 paper). The Wesleyan professor—who commutes from Cambridge and …
Issue: January-February 2008
Being on “The Bachelor”
… One evening in the fall of 2021, a Harvard graduate stepped out of a stretch limousine wearing nothing but a doctor’s coat, … organically in the environment.” One thing that did surprise her was how little time she had to get to know her …
A Pandemic Full of Heartbreaks
… During the past month and a half, as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded … and other minorities, Evelynn Hammonds, Rosenkrantz professor of the history of science and professor in African and …