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… Unpacking the Boxes: Memoir of a Life in Poetry , by Donald Hall ’51, … $24). The 2006-2007 U.S. poet laureate writes, sparely, of the “stony loneliness” of Exeter, the “thrilling” liberty …
Issue: January-February 2009
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
As Disciplines Converge
… Where are the frontiers of knowledge? Increasingly, at the boundaries … credential and experimental forms of research are on the rise. In the future, as the process unfolds and as now …
Issue: July-August 2003
Above and Beyond
… Hazard Stevens , of the class of 1865, led the assault that captured a Confederate fort. Leonard Wood, …
Issue: November-December 2009
Fixing Every Muscle
… The article “Mother Courage: A family tragedy and a … by John Colapinto, in the December 20, 2010, issue of the New Yorker ( www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/20/ … Patricia Furlong’s efforts to raise public awareness of muscular dystrophy, and funding for research, and covers …
Issue: March-April 2011
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
William C. Kirby: Is China Ready for Leadership on the Global Stage?
… China is the most populous country on Earth , and until a few hundred … accurate? How is China coping with pressing issues of the day, from climate change to coronaviruses? In this … time ago. One of the large questions now is, is China's rise a rise to global leadership? Is the 21st century to be …
Harvard Endowment Rises to $37.6 Billion on 5.8 Percent Investment Return
… HIGHLIGHTS: The endowment’s value stood at $37.6 billion as of June 30, … other financial institutions; the impact of “the eventual rise of interest rates” in the United States (very much on …
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
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
College Admits 14.5 Percent of Early-Action Applicants
… THE COLLEGE has admitted 14.5 percent of early-action applicants to the class of 2022, the same percentage as last year , the admissions … applicants: “First-generation college students comprise nearly 10.6 percent of the early admitted students …
The Presidents We Pick
… James MacGregor Burns, Ph.D. ’47, Woodrow Wilson professor of government emeritus at Williams College, a … writer, and Democratic Party activist, has produced yet another volume about the health of the American political … consequences the Framers didn’t plan —frequent stalemates, crises of inaction, crucial legislation stalled for decades.” …
Issue: November-December 2007
A Time of Trauma
… “Over these past few years, I have felt increasingly that … wrong—and this year ever so much more than last,” said professor of biology George Wald, who shared the 1967 Nobel Prize in …
Issue: September-October 2018
The Library’s Healers
… Dorothea ("Thea") Burns is hunched over a table holding a scalpel. Ever so gently she teases off fragments of a thick, rigid, cardboard mat that was … body for the more than 90 separate libraries that comprise the Harvard library system. Dorothea Burns working …
Issue: May-June 2004
Harvard in China: A Blog by Editor John Rosenberg
… from China, covering President Drew Faust's trip and other University projects in that country. See " Connecting … that frame the endless expanse and remarkable busy-ness of this city; a golden moonset this morning was a bonus. On … sell roasted yams (also available in malls in vending machines, rotisserie-style), fresh swirl-cut pineapple on a …