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… The Close: A Young Woman's First Year at Seminary , by Chloe … Cambridge in an interfaith, secular household, the daughter of an American Jewish father (and U.S. Supreme Court … an Episcopal minister. Why? She explains in this memoir of her first year at General Theological Seminary in New …
Colossal Blossom
… The largest flower in the world, Rafflesia arnoldii, is more … infected host vine and swell slowly over months to the size of cabbages. In full bloom, each bud’s central floral … region’s spectacular plant diversity. Where the landscape rises from coastal low-land tropics to Mount Kinabalu, which …
Issue: March-April 2017
The Student Commencement Speakers
… After two years of virtual ceremonies, the 371 st Commencement exercises will feature three live … every sentence that really hooked me.” No one was too surprised, then, when she decided to concentrate in classics at …
Strokes of Genius
… Traditionally, Harvard has not been known as a golf power. The school’s most significant figure in the sport (if you … arguably is Edward S. Stimpson II ’27, two-time captain of the golf team, who in 1935 invented the Stimpmeter, a … seasons, under Fred Schernecker ’89, the Weissman director of golf, and coach Kevin Rhoads, Harvard’s linksters have …
Issue: September-October 2016
John H. Finley Jr.
… “Where else but Harvard would you find, in one room, the grandson of Matisse, the grandson of Joyce, and the … the committee also sought to inoculate students against the rise of authoritarianism. The ideas remain resonant today. …
Constantine Archimedes Valhouli
Issue: July-August 2024
Retiring from the Ranks
… Of the 176 senior professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and four professional …
Issue: January-February 2011
The Mating Game
… students and prospective employers begin a complicated rite of courtship, complete with flirting (invitations), wooing (interviews), and proposals (offers). There is even a matchmaker, the Office of Career Services …
Into the Inferno, with Notebook
… Ragtop down, a spectacular view of San Francisco Bay and the city below suddenly opens up for two seconds as we tear … students how the U.S. government reacts to foreign policy crises overseas," says Tarnoff. In simulated press …
Issue: January-February 2005
Facing Risks for the Public Good: The Kennedy School Graduation Address
… In the carefully secured John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, the Harvard Kennedy School’s class of 2010 heard Dean David Ellwood introduce their … Mexican president Felipe Calderón, M.P.A. ’00, as a man of action whose efforts to better his country stand as an …
Waving the Flag
… IN 1913 Loomis Temple of Music of New Haven published sheet music for a Yale fight song … "Good-Night poor Har-vard, Har-vard Good-night!" goes the refrain. "We've got your number you're high as a kite. …
For the Virtual Museumgoer
… The Busch-Reisinger museum will celebrate its hundredth … Museums, Museum Purchase/Copyright©2003 President & Fellows of Harvard College Giving a gift to art lovers unable to … "Extra Ordinary Every Day." About Germany's Bauhaus school of art, it concerns the intersection of fine art and the …
Issue: September-October 2003
Tracing the Enslaved to Modern Descendants
… A genetic analysis of African Americans who labored at a Revolutionary War-era forge for the first time connects ancient DNA to living people who … originally developed for analyzing DNA that is tens of thousands of years old to develop genetic profiles of 27 …
Driving Birds Away
… you would avoid laying your eggs within three-quarters of a mile of either side of a busy four-lane highway that runs by Thoreau’s … That noise—not exhaust stink or the sight of speeding machines—apparently creates the broad avoidance zone on …
Issue: May-June 2005
The Choice to Bear Children
… When patients begin lining up before dawn and doctors’ office hours stretch into the evening, “There are so many other important … Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, where about 40 percent of residents have HIV. Matthews first started thinking about …
Saved from the Flames
… "Last night Harvard College suffered the most ruinous loss it ever met with since its … printed in Boston on January 25, 1764. "In the middle of a very tempestuous night, a severe cold storm of snow … by it. When it was discovered from the town, it had risen to a degree of violence that defied all opposition. It …