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… $26). A New Yorker staff writer and Vassar associate professor travels back to his youth as a son of Taiwanese … Japanese American. Every detail of life in Berkeley then seems engraved in his memory and is recaptured … Child, to today’s biotech, digital, and emerging enterprises. Given MIT’s entrepreneurial DNA, and Harvard’s …
Issue: September-October 2022
Off the Shelf
… The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion, by Rebecca Lemov, professor of the history of science (W.W. Norton, $32.99). “Brainwashing …
Issue: May-June 2025
The Anti-thesis
… had difficulty with conclusions. Writing a 101-page senior thesis may have only made my problem worse. I should have … Eliot House resident tutor Amie von Briesen '95, L '01, offered over dinner one night. "Whatever you do, don't wait … couldn't make it through inter-House transfers and thesis crises. As both professional partners and peers, our best and …
The Short List
… major Ivy League university. Must be able to raise billions of dollars every year, root convincingly for athletic teams … a geeky crimson scarf. Must be able to write an article on the future of higher education for the New York Times op-ed … players for its annual All-Star Game. Much to the surprise of University officials, the voters' overwhelming …
Drew Gilpin Faust, President Emerita, 2024 Phi Beta Kappa Oration—“Free and Brave”: Defending Universities and the Rule of Truth
… and grateful for this opportunity to speak after 11 years of silence at these Literary Exercises—sitting where President Garber is … restrained the price. But we must also recognize that this rise in price and rise in debt are in part the result of a …
Radcliffe Talks Voting
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study celebrated its fifteenth anniversary with a special, daylong series of events on May 30. In the Knafel Center that morning, the … at Northwestern, spoke next. Her book Black Victory: the Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas (1979, revised …
The Veil’s Revival
… One evening in the late 1990s, Thomas professor of divinity Leila Ahmed saw … with the Palestinians. Ahmed was particularly surprised to meet an American Muslim woman in Boston who said …
Issue: September-October 2011
News from the HAA
… Congratulations The HAA clubs committee recognizes publicly those who … exemplary service to a Harvard club. This year's winners of the Outstanding Club Contribution Awards were announced … Conference held on October 26. Donald Christopher '74, of Orlando. He is chairman of the Schools and Scholarships …
Issue: January-February 2002
The 2013 Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Portrait of Peter Gomes Hung in Faculty Room
… The portraits hung on the walls of the Faculty Room in … the four canonical gospels, and that some of them were surprised and even unsettled that the accounts differed in …
Letters Between Friends
… In 2004 , the Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum in New Bedford purchased a collection of documents that included the William Rotch (1844–1925) … between 1858 and 1861. Willie was the great-grandson of William Rotch Jr. (1759–1850), who built the house that …
The Screenwriter’s Toolbox
… lecturer on English. “It’s only impossible.” In other words, turning out a 120-page script—the standard … decided to add screenwriting to its creative-writing offerings, it tapped Rubin, who has written dozens of screenplays in the past two decades. Three have been …
Issue: July-August 2013
How the Lines Get Bent
… Maps of coronavirus infections have for months filled the front pages of newspapers and media websites, becoming a crucial way to …
Off the Shelf
… The Art of Cloth in Mughal India , by Sylvia Houghteling ’06 (Princeton, $65). To wide public knowledge of Mughal masterpieces in painting and architecture, … Houghteling now adds comprehensive appreciation of the textiles created and traded at the height of the empire …
Issue: July-August 2022
Allston Plans in the News
… The Boston Globe reported on December 12 ( link ) that … is rethinking earlier plans to move the Graduate School of Education and the School of Public Health to Allston as part of its campus-building …