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Visitors, Not Viewers
… eyes before your ears or nose or fingertips make it inside. The first thing you notice in “Calm. Smoke rises vertically.”—Wendy Jacob’s exhibition at the Radcliffe … a pyramidal building which turns out to be the Tower of Babel. The objects look a bit clunky–roughly hewn, and …
The 140th Harvard-Yale: Game Fandom Tiny Mic Edition
… The Harvard-Yale football game, a tradition more than a century old, stands as one of the most storied rivalries in American collegiate sports. … athletic competition. The Game is a living chronicle of academic prestige, social identity, and American history. …
Being With the Other
… was speaking during a Zoom discussion last week that marked the opening of the Radcliffe Institute’s first-ever online-only exhibition, “ Accompanied: The Artworks of Marilyn Pappas and Jill Slosburg-Ackerman .” In …
The Players
… This November 17 marks the 135th iteration of The Game—and more vividly, the fiftieth anniversary of the titanic “Harvard Beats Yale 29-29” edition: a …
Issue: November-December 2018
Reforesting the Yard
… Savaged by insects , ravaged by disease and old age, the elms of Harvard Yard were much diminished by 1990 (see … of Design. Swamp white oaks, “the biggest delightful surprise,” he says, have thrived in the Yard’s heavy soils and …
Issue: November-December 2005
Strangers in the Rangeland
… much bored to death” studying agricultural economics at the University of California, Davis, when someone told him that U.S. Forest … he recalls saying. But the tip was true, and the idea of swinging into a saddle and working outdoors every day …
Issue: September-October 2006
The Brain in the Basement
… HouseZero , as the wood-shingled building at 20 Sumner Road in Cambridge is … for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC), a unique example of sustainable retrofitting. But what really sets this sustainability project …
Issue: July-August 2018
Commencement and Alumni Annual Meeting Notice 2022
… Commencement Exercises for the Class of 2022 Thursday, May 26, 2022 … of the ceremony, the graduating seniors are asked to rise, and their degrees are conferred on them as a group by …
Issue: March-April 2022
The Alcotts, Père and Fille
… Bronson Alcott is known today—if he is known at all—as the father of Louisa May, the author of Little Women and more than a dozen other books written …
Issue: March-April 2009
A Pediatrician Takes the Long View
… I am a converted pediatrician. A product of Harvard Medical School in the 1950s, trained almost entirely in adult medicine, I … CGD gene. The stem cells carrying the correct genes give rise to normal functioning granulocytes that can eat and …
Issue: January-February 2013
The Young T.S. Eliot
… If it is true that the child is father to the man, then no poet disavowed his … ’11, Litt.D. ’47. Looking at the severe, bespectacled face of the elderly poet on the cover of his Complete Poems and Plays , it is hard to imagine that …
Issue: July-August 2015
“Class Cluelessness”
… Donald J. Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election spawned a maelstrom of finger-pointing and soul-searching within the Democratic … of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker (2016). J.D. Vance described his own …
Issue: July-August 2017
“La Survivance”
… The Museum of Work & Culture tells the story of French-Canadian immigrants who worked in …
Issue: May-June 2020
Bumps in the Road
… For the fourth time in the 15-year reign of head coach Tim … lists as defending champions. The 2007 squad—like those of 1997, 2001, and 2004—had gone unbeaten in Ivy play, …
Issue: November-December 2008
Off the Shelf
… was born, his parents' friend William Shakespeare gave them an autograph manuscript of a new play, Love's Labours Won. Any printer would pay £10 … theater pieces were anathema to Puritans, and was part of his bequest of books to the new college, from which the …
Issue: January-February 2004