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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
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
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
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
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 …
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 Forgotten Jugglers
… Everything is better on roller skates. At least, that’s what the Ader Brothers thought when they decided that their juggling act—in which they tossed upwards of 12 objects in the air simultaneously—needed more oomph. For vaudeville acts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, …
Issue: January-February 2023
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
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
Football: The 2022 Preview
… Mercifully, the annual 42-week interlude between Harvard football games … season by taking on Merrimack at Harvard Stadium. (Kickoff: 7 p.m. ) When we left you at the Yale Bowl last … Here is a thumbnail guide to get you ready for the 2022 kickoff. THE RECORD. Harvard’s all-time mark is 887-405-50. The …
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
The Undergraduate: Running Over Murphy's Law
… I would have said I hated running (too many bad memories of middle-school gym) and getting wet in the rain (nothing can tame my hair in the presence of … of depression and anxiety, I would not have been surprised to see a jump in patients this past winter: …
Issue: September-October 2015
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