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The Visit to Abraham
… The Lord appeared to him [Abraham] at the oak-trees of Mamre, as he was sitting near the door of his tent during the hot part of the day. He looked up and …
Issue: January-February 2004
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tidies Up Pandemic and Single-Gender Policies
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) cleared up its remaining routine tasks during this most non-routine of years at its last regular meeting of the academic year on Tuesday afternoon. Many of the prior …
Family History
… represents something from a history book: alien, remote, the stuff of nightmares. For Martin Puchner, Wien professor of drama … itself also uprooted huge numbers of people, giving rise to a larger, more entrenched Rotwelsch culture. “My …
Issue: November-December 2020
Reimagining Cabot Library and the Science Center Common Spaces
… Prior to its redesign , the Cabot Science Library had opaque windows, uninviting first and second floors, and a lack of room for students needing to spend any meaningful amount of time there. Last month, the library re-opened with an …
Inside the “War on Drugs”
… Since President Nixon coined the phrase “the war on drugs” in 1970, more than $1 trillion … spent on more than 45 million drug arrests. Yet the rate of drug use in the United States remains unchanged. That’s one pair of statistics filmmaker Eugene Jarecki ( Why We Fight ) …
The Virtual Road to a Dream Home?
… mortgage company affiliated with his Internet bank. "The frontman was smooth, easy to talk to," Fowler reports. … justified." So far so good. Then the the loan was handed off to the underwriter. That person, Fowler found out, "was … people log on to buy, sell, and research homes, questions arise about how helpful the strictly electronic route really …
Your Take: The Coed Living Experiment
… In “More As People Than Dating Objects” from the November-December 2011 issue, Nell Porter Brown reports on the memories and perspectives of a group of Harvard and Radcliffe alumni and alumnae who, as …
Back to the Future
… Striding through the newly rebuilt barn at his Sanborn Mills Farm, in Loudon, … “that I suppose I want to provide access to a different way of living than what, for lack of a better term, is often … setting up liminal spaces, preparing for transporting surprises: ‘Aha! Moments.’” Although Cabot never spoke with his …
Issue: November-December 2019
Building RoboBees: How Harvard Engineers Are Revolutionizing Micro-Robotics
… One day nearly a decade ago, Gu-Yeon Wei was walking the corridors of Harvard’s newly established School of Engineering and … a page in a children’s pop-up book. Manufacturing complex machines with tiny, integrated piezoelectric motors in this …
Issue: November-December 2017
A Middling Year
… (HMC) reported a 6.5 percent return on endowment assets for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019. The endowment’s value … (4.3 percent) from $39.2 billion a year earlier. In a year of more modest results for most university endowments (see … its report, the factors contributing to the 4.3 percent rise in the endowment’s value cannot be known precisely. But …
Issue: November-December 2019
Expanding the Professoriate
… Samuel Gompers, a founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor, succinctly summarized its aims as "More!" It is …
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 …
Diagnosis by Fiction
… In 1968 , Stephen Bergman ’66, M.D. ’73, was driving through the desert in Morocco on a dead-straight road. At one point, he noticed the sun going down directly in front of him while the moon was rising behind. “I had never seen … anything like that on Earth,” he recalls. The sunset/moonrise moment seemed an epiphany, “a sign,” he says, that the …
Issue: March-April 2024
Near Misses
… They each had their shot. After a season that yielded some … men’s and women’s basketball teams, both came up just short of reaching the NCAA tournament. For the men, the shot at … three-point shot that would have tied the score. It caromed off the backboard, but the Crimson grabbed the rebound, …
Issue: May-June 2018
The 2017 Harvard Medalists
… Three alumni received the Harvard Medal, for extraordinary service to the … Alumni Association’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. They are: Henry N. Cobb Photograph by Jim Harrison Henry N. Cobb ’47, M.Arch. ’49, a former professor and chair of the architecture department at the …
Issue: July-August 2017