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From the Archives: Freshman Plus 10
… What awaits members of the class of 2021? Recalling his “unusually close-knit … a plentiful commodity in Cambridge, is certainly not on the rise there.) But there are new kinds of anxiety, as well, …
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
A More Generous, Capacious America
… When Werner Sollors was a boy, growing up among the ruins of postwar Germany, he had at best an indistinct idea of the distant country he would spend his adult life trying …
Issue: January-February 2025
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 …
Jodie Foster Honored at Radcliffe Day
… , Oscar-winning actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster received the 2025 Radcliffe Medal, reunited with an old college … “What I hope for people now is that they take the gloves off, and Harvard has shown that recently, and right on,” Foster said, acknowledging that the politics of the last decade have left many people feeling “worn out …
Lydialyle Gibson , Max J. Krupnick
A Scholar in the House
… Tradition and the twenty-first century were tangled together in Barker Center’s Thompson Room on the afternoon of February 11, when Drew Gilpin Faust conducted her first … in 1997. A thicket of television cameras filled the risers erected for the occasion, attesting to worldwide …
Issue: July-August 2007
Greener Than Grass
… For alternatives to the idealized, traditional lawn, try these options. Fescues. Closely related to ryegrass, fescues often come mixed into lawn grass seed bags, but can be … planned to grow their own food in 2009 than in 2008, a rise of 19 percent. (See, as one example, the Edible Estates …
Issue: March-April 2011
Engineering in the Twenty-First Century
… I’m a science-fiction fan. One of my favorite authors, China Miéville, says, “Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas …
Issue: September-October 2011
Williamina Fleming
… As 21- year-old Williamina Paton Fleming steamed across the Atlantic toward Boston in November 1878, she had no idea … brightly the stars overhead would shine in her future. One of nine children of a Scottish craftsman and his wife, she … in the United States. Despite it all, “Mina” Fleming would rise to a key position in Harvard’s astronomy program and be …
Issue: January-February 2017
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
Harvard Nears Selection of Allston Development Partner
… The Harvard Allston Land Company (HALC), charged with developing the University’s “enterprise research campus” (ERC) commercial area in Allston, has narrowed the field of candidates for development of that 14-acre parcel off …
Losing the News
… Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Alex S. Jones, Director of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, about his new book Losing the News: The future of the News That feeds Democracy . … Magazine donors visited …
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
Home Unaffordable Home
… In 1995, a typical home in the Boston metropolitan area could be had for about … excluding closing costs, taxes, and insurance) would have risen fourfold, from $1,029 to $4,181, leading to payments over the life of the loan totaling more than $1.5 million. Nationwide, the …
Issue: November-December 2024
Harvard Reports Budget Surplus of $77 Million
… For the third year in a row, Harvard reported a modest budget … expenses by $77 million, up from last year’s surplus of $62 million, according to its annual financial report , … operations , continue to make up the single largest source of operating revenue. Distributions increased 7 percent from …