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Snapshots of Ghana
… This summer I worked as an intern for Students of the World , a nonprofit media-production company dedicated to pairing teams of …
Easing the College Transition
… challenges. Students from under-resourced high schools often struggle to navigate office hours, research, fellowships, class participation, … city navigation, and academic planning (see “Mastering the ‘Hidden Curriculum,’” November-December 2017, page 18). …
Issue: July-August 2023
Time in Space
… Many who work in and around the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts have a weird … students: his notoriety, when combined with the loudness of his architecture, means that making art able to hold its … an experimental and communal lifestyle, the building gave rise to the California strain of modernist architecture. The …
Issue: March-April 2018
Read All About It
… The earliest history of Crimson athletics appeared in The … in 1923, the Harvard Varsity Club brought out The H Book of Harvard Athletics: 1852-1922 . Its 624 pages were devoted … Its two volumes chronicle an eventful era that saw the rise of women’s teams and the addition of fencing, golf, …
Issue: January-February 2015
Off the Shelf
… On the Rez, by Ian Frazier ’73 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, … road in the distance who might be drunk, and a scattering of window-glass fragments in the weeds that might be from a … diaper playing in a bare-dirt yard, and an acrid smell of burning trash—all the elements that usually evoke …
Up Close (Virtually) with the Forbes Pigment Collection
… The Harvard Art Museums’ world-famous Forbes Pigment … to visitors. It sits behind glass walls on the fourth floor of the museums’ Renzo Piano-redesigned building, where … are tightly arranged like scientific specimens in a row of neat gray cabinets. This year, though, visitors can’t …
Seasons at the Arboretum
… In 2008, photographer Jim Harrison, whose portraits of Harvard community members have appeared in this magazine for decades, turned his eye to a new subject: the plants at the University’s Arnold Arboretum, where he … when shooting outdoors, the “golden hours” just after sunrise and just before sunset provide dramatic light. For …
Issue: July-August 2018
The 2021 Honorands
… speaker, Martin Baron) received honorary degrees during the graduation program on May 27. University provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands as video highlights of their careers streamed, and President Lawrence S. Bacow … by Harvard Magazine Frances H. Arnold, Linus Pauling professor of chemical engineering, bioengineering, and …
Issue: July-August 2021
The Office for the Arts Turns 50
… No celebration for the Office for the Arts (OFA) could possibly capture the … education.” Wu’s piano grew more intense and, during the reprise, Vandermel approached the edge of the stage like a pop …
The Disinformation Dilemma
… In the discussion of how Russian operatives manipulated public opinion during the 2016 presidential election, it’s easy to overlook how … tools originally designed to further the economic interests of leading Internet companies like Facebook and Google. …
Issue: May-June 2018
Off the Ice, Onto the Screen
… Two years out of Harvard, government concentrator Bill Keenan ’09 was in … playing minor-league hockey in Sweden, still dreaming of his life-long desire to play in the NHL, when he was traded into the German league for a …
Controversial Reunioner
… The urbane Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl '09 was Hitler's crony … and played the piano for him soothingly. He later fell out of favor and fled to the United States, where he worked … Franklin D. Roosevelt '04. In Hitler's Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl, Confidant of Hitler, …
Issue: September-October 2004
Defying the Doldrums
… Jon Schaefer grew up in Charlemont, a community of nearly 1,300 that lies between Williamstown and Interstate 91. His family owns the local Berkshire East Mountain Resort, where he and his … family members became racers, traveling to compete on some of the world’s most daunting and magnificent alpine heights. …
Issue: January-February 2021
Hold the Beans
… “Beans, beans” are good for the heart…but many vegetarian restaurants mistakenly offer “1,001 ways to mash, mix, and fry the garbanzos” instead of dreaming up more creative and beautiful plant-based …
Issue: January-February 2013
The “Little Republics”
… shortly before resigning as George Washington’s secretary of state. He was anxious “to be liberated from the hated occupations of politics, and to sink into the … He, in turn, did things for them.” Some guests were surprised that Jefferson treated his slaves as though they were …
Issue: March-April 2016