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The Memorable Eccentric
… small boy , only his eyes and forehead visible, stares out of an enormous, tall window three panes across. The tip of a single bare tree branch, which he does not see, …
Issue: March-April 2019
In from the Margins
… The first radiant spring day formed an auspicious backdrop … on April 9. Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, historian of education and president of the Spencer Foundation, will … all the parents in a household work, language barriers have risen, and social inequality and even homelessness hobble …
Issue: July-August 2002
The Harvard Film Archive
… says internationally renowned filmmaker Dusan Makavejev of the Harvard Film Archive (HFA), “thousands of brilliant, fantastic prints, many of them very rare.” …
Issue: November-December 2005
The Blue Garden
… In the Gilded Age, Newport, Rhode Island, became the summer playground of the American upper class. Vanderbilts and Astors built … the others in magnificence. Yet, flying in the face of this craze, Arthur Curtiss James, whose riches derived …
Issue: July-August 2022
The State of Black America
… During a searching discussion Thursday evening at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) on the “State of Black America,” historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad opened … warning: “We are facing uncharted waters.” Surveying the rise of Trumpism and the past several years of proliferating …
This Is How the World Ends
… In the imagination of Justin Cronin ’84, when the world ends, … find its way into what I wrote, but the occasion had never arisen,” he says, “and then it arose.” His chance was The … though for some readers it must have been a rude surprise all the same—as if Alien stood unmasked as a sequel to …
The Community Scholar
… a fire drill at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Lines of students slowly pour out onto the grounds of the large, comprehensive high school. It's a warm, sunny …
Issue: January-February 2002
Interpreting the Universe
… Mildred Thompson’s prints, at the New Britain Museum of American Art through November 27, offer abstract, yet personal, depictions of scientific …
Issue: July-August 2022
Michelle Wu Tells the Truth
… When invited to address the College class of 2022 at Class Day, Boston Mayor … incredible honor?” The second was, “Actually, this is kind of awkward, because I had already told one of the Harvard …
Overhauling the Endowment
… In November, he invited Harvard Magazine to HMC’s offices to discuss these changes in depth. Blyth directly addressed an altered … November-December 2015, page 22, and “ Harvard Endowment Rises to $37.6 Billion on 5.8 Percent Investment Return .” … …
Issue: January-February 2016
Off the Shelf
… A Natural History of North American Trees , by Donald Culross Peattie ’22, … (Houghton Mifflin, $40). This is a one-volume edition of two classics from the 1950s by Peattie (1898-1964), who wrote about the giant …
Issue: May-June 2007
“The public is growing restive”
… President Derek Bok used his “last occasion to report to the alumni” to “share some parting reflections on the … this University and others like it.” He began with a moment of personal reflection: “ I realize that more than 55 years … from southern California and ready to scale the heights of legal education.” Bok then outlined five subjects facing …
Issue: July-August 2007
Ants through the Ages
… in present-day Colombia and promptly began writing hundreds of pages of groundbreaking observations about ants. He sent them in book form to the great Swedish taxonomist Carl …
Issue: July-August 2011
The "Five-foot Shelf" Reconsidered
… event so much as to a new cultural climate, a new way of looking at the world, that would become known as modernism. When he … series bears the Harvard name, it was a commercial enterprise from the beginning. In February 1909, Eliot was …
Issue: November-December 2001
Making the United States Competitive
… The United States is struggling: wages are stagnant, … says Michael Porter , Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), U.S. firms are … but they’re not producing a rising standard of living for American workers. An economy isn’t competitive …