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Artistic Capital
… iconic Building Five would be a daunting space to fill. The length of a football field, the 30,000 square-foot former textile … production and consumption. Increasingly, financial value arises from high-speed, algorithmic trading—not on the …
Issue: January-February 2019
Karen Dynan on the Coronavirus Recession
… As the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly escalates across the world, the United States economy has entered one of its most dramatic crises on record. In little more than a month, the Dow Jones …
The Long Goodbye
… night in New York City, a month after graduation, a group of my college friends meet for dinner. We are currently undergoing a period of profound personal change: relocating our lives, moving … College, or at least topics related to it, still dominates the discussion: the boys who lived upstairs our senior year …
Issue: September-October 2005
Off the Shelf
… The Funhouse Mirror: Reflections on Prison , by Robert Ellis Gordon '76 and inmates of the Washington Corrections System (Washington State … state legislature. His writing and the essays and stories of six of his students provide a memorable image of the …
The Long Game
… Brian Ma ’23 [’24], who this year recorded the lowest scoring average of any Ivy League golfer—and the best in Harvard’s … who was coached extensively by his father from the age of two, Ma’s parents were not fans of the game. When his …
Issue: July-August 2022
“Through a Thunderstorm and Into the Sunlight Again”
… President Drew Faust sounded optimistic notes about the condition of the University and its direction, as students prepared to … Faust said, after the “unanticipated, earthshaking crises of 2008-2009” (when the endowment’s value sank by …
The Harvard Corporation’s Committees
… Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office Drew Faust Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard … News Office Robert D. Reischauer As a fundamental part of the Harvard Corporation’s overhaul of its membership and … and it shall consider and resolve specific matters that arise thereunder, unless in the view of the Committee …
Off the Shelf
… personalities," wrote a literary critic in 1937, "probably the most urbane and humanistic since Socrates is Mr. … the United States for more than 40 years and was a member of the Harvard faculty before World War I--in the golden age of philosophy hereabouts--Santayana is most often remembered …
Grace Notes
… arch above his head, seven or eight feet tall. Bands of golden grapes cascade down. Russell, head winemaker at … sweet, much more so than a table grape, not at all like the wine it’ll become. “A Riesling grape tends to taste like … he tastes get him thinking about his plan for the rest of the harvest: when to send in the mechanical picker, and …
Issue: January-February 2019
Nancy Coleman Appointed Dean of Continuing Education
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay today announced … Nancy Coleman, currently associate provost and director of strategic growth initiatives at Wellesley College, will become dean of the Division of Continuing Education (DCE, the Harvard …
Off the Shelf
… The View from Nebo: How Archaeology Is Rewriting the Bible … to 1998, Marcus did the research for this engaging amalgam of Biblical scholarship, archaeology, history, and politics. … and perhaps not even by slaves. The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue …
“Taming” the Rhine
… fens and marshes, lush, low-lying polders and high moors of heath and bog. When he leaves his home in Lexington, Massachusetts, to visit the coast, he and his wife walk the creeks and saltmarshes of Essex and Gloucester, north of Boston. The sights and …
Issue: July-August 2006
Seeing the Ice
… A.J. Mleczko ’97 (’99) could always see the ice. As a player, that was one thing she counted on, … more than the goals and assists (although there were plenty of those, too). But her ability to read the ice—to … breakaway or open look—that was why, after so many years of skating at center, serving as a playmaker and face-off …
Issue: March-April 2019
By the Books
… Are the humanities in crisis (a spiral of declining student … in Society and Solitude” ) is a paean to the enterprise of deep reading and humanistic thought. (Note to the …
Issue: September-October 2013
The Civil War’s Personal Histories
… Harriet Beecher Stowe —the best-known subject in the new exhibit on the Civil War … Saved: The Personal Civil War , the daguerreotype portrait of the abolitionist author does not sit next to a copy of her most famous work, Uncle Tom’s Cabin . Instead, …