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The Perfect Amateur
… but a pleasure, one that brings back fond early memories of trips to the Reading (Pennsylvania) Museum with his mother. As the … some visitors describe, but rather the warmth and beauty of specific objects he has admired, and of the women who …
Issue: March-April 2006
At the Forefront
… Pass Addelson and Philip Keene Photograph by Jane Reed The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on Commencement day, who … meeting, were 101-year-old Philip Keene '25, S.M. '40, of Middletown, Connecticut, who was making his third …
Issue: July-August 2004
The Oldest Graduate
… At the age of 104, Dorothy Summers Green ’17 of Lexington, Massachusetts, is the oldest living graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe …
Wild on the Strip
… To see her on the fencing strip is to witness an almost terrifying release of aggression. With lightning speed, a blur of lunges, parries, and thrusts springs from a disciplined …
Issue: January-February 2006
What It Means to Be OK
… The doctor asked the man to tell her what he remembered, and … and again, searching his own memory and the recollections of his wife and daughter, trying to make the puzzle pieces … fit. They never quite did. But today was a different kind of exercise. The doctor, Daniela Lamas ’03, is a pulmonary …
Issue: January-February 2019
Studying Suicide
… Professor of psychology Matthew Nock studies suicide: what causes people to take their own lives; how to predict who will try; and how to …
Issue: January-February 2011
Harvard Makes the Case for Diversity
… The University LAte Yesterday filed its amicus brief in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (hereafter, University of Texas ), the latest in a series of high-stakes cases …
Eye on the Cosmos
… In 1895, Harvard deployed the most powerful photographic telescope in the world to a … placement in the cosmos, and ultimately, the expansion rate of the universe. The Bruce telescope owes its name, fame, … in 1908 published her observation that the peak brightness of certain pulsing stars called Cepheids was related to the …
Issue: November-December 2017
Renewing the News
… W alter Cronkite stepped to the podium before a respectful audience at Harvard one November evening in 1990. An avuncular legend of broadcast journalism, celebrated as “the most trusted man … across the country who felt unheard,” he said. “It surprised us all.” That led to a new realization: If the …
Issue: January-February 2020
“Nothing Has to Stay the Way It Is”
… Before she launched into the main part of her Commencement address—about the present, … to our planet’s natural resources; it and the resulting crises are caused by humans,” Merkel said. “I will therefore …
Marina N. Bolotnikova , Lydialyle Gibson
Protesting, at Home and on the Streets
… On the morning of Saturday, May 30, Elijah C. DeVaughn ’21 … pants, a shirt with “melanin” printed on it, and a pair of Chuck Taylor sneakers—donned a protective facemask, and … his home in Compton, California, to Pan Pacific Park in the Los Angeles Fairfax District. There, he joined thousands …
Harvard Alumni Day with Courtney B. Vance
… Two sets of protestors briefly interrupted interim president Alan M. Garber’s remarks during the Alumni Day celebration on Friday, May 31, as he and … election during the Civil War and the compromises that gave rise to the violence of Jim Crow, to the fights of the civil …
The 2020 Harvard Medalists
… The Harvard Alumni Association today recognized three … University. (The actual medal presentation, typically part of the HAA’s annual meeting on Commencement Day, has been deferred to a later date.) Senior College admissions officer David L. Evans retires this summer, following more …
Off the Shelf
… '83, Nf '99 (Public Affairs, $23). "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love … so!" said General George S. Patton. Hedges has seen plenty of violent death as a New York Times war correspondent (see …
Issue: November-December 2002
The DNA of World Literature
… Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1908 poem “Archaic Torso of Apollo,” written in German, is notoriously difficult to translate. The poem, about a fragmentary statue of Apollo, is dense with enigmatic metaphors: the speaker …