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S-e-c-s Talk
… different. Those readers who turned to this space in the previous issue found, under the headline Sensational, Shocking Tabloid Run by Harvard Grad!, a profile of the editor of the National Enquirer, class of '79. … and proofreading for the class reports, unaided by copying machines, word processors, or computerized files. Pressure …
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 …
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
The Founders
… If you were told that an emeritus professor at Harvard had decided to stitch together several of his recent public lectures and publish them as a book, …
Issue: March-April 2003
Can the Catholic Church Help Explain Western Psychology?
… During the past 10 years, social scientists have wrestled with a powerful criticism of their research: their favorite subjects, American college … early councils saw it as an affront to God. “I was surprised just how preoccupied medieval Europe was with the fear …
Fate of Graduate-Student Union Still Unknown
… with teaching or research responsibilities) voted on whether to unionize, the election still remains too close to … “yes.” But 314 ballots remained challenged at the time of the count due to questions over voter eligibility. … eligibility grounds. Difficulties determining eligibility arise for students, particularly in the sciences, whose …
Marina N. Bolotnikova , Sophia Nguyen
Off the Shelf
… Will Chandler at the helm The Cruise of the Blue Dolphin: A Family's … an affair. So he charters a schooner and takes her, four of their five children, and his mother-in-law on a prolonged …
Issue: March-April 2003
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
Life Sciences, Applied
… make hydrogen fuel directly from sunlight. Determining how the geometry of damaged heart cells leads to coronary disasters. Creating … This area has become particularly important with the rise of small-scale manufacturing and design that make it …
Issue: January-February 2009
A Nearly Perfect Book
… Many poems enact wild rides of the imagination, but John Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a … explains. “He told me, ‘Go to the top— ask .’ ”) To his surprise, Vendler agreed. She wrote an introduction, which Hoyem …
Issue: September-October 2013
Cost of Attendance Will Increase 3 Percent in 2018-19
… Total cost of attendance (including tuition, housing, and fees) at the College will increase by 3 percent to $67,580 in … a 4.1 percent increase from the previous year), as cost of attendance approaches $70,000. Harvard’s tuition will be …
Will Truth Prevail?
… O n a cloudless morning the summer after freshman year, as a break from my research … to read a research paper. Light streamed into the lounge of Harvard’s Center for the Environment and illuminated the … entire world. There is nothing mystical about chaos. It arises under simple conditions: for example, in the …
Issue: May-June 2020
Raw and Red-Hot
… In 2007, associate professor of medicine Samia Mora and colleagues published a … sought to understand why physical activity is salutary. They already knew that exercise reduces the risk of … such as heart attack and stroke. “We were actually surprised that reduced inflammation was the biggest explainer, …
Issue: May-June 2019
Mathematics from the Inside Out
… In 1940, in the shadow of World War II, G.H. Hardy, one of the great … piece with his larger account of mathematics as human enterprise, rather than as any greater quest for an abstract …
Issue: September-October 2015
The World's Poor
… Such distinguished recent speakers at Harvard as Kofi Annan, Nelson Mandela, and Amartya Sen have decried the desperate plight of the world's poorest people--the … is not the same as Jessica's point. The gap in real dollars rises even if China grows at 8 percent, and the U.S. grows …