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The Grounds Round
… de Vergie ’56 finds it entertaining and informative to scan the want ads when he reads the paper. One Sunday morning in … the Washington Post that intrigued him: the U.S. Department of State was looking for a specialist in landscape … earned a bachelor’s degree in that field at the University of Michigan and had worked in private firms ever since. He …
“Theater Is Church”
… In one scene of Katori Hall’s The Hot Wing King, the characters sing all of “Never Too … needed the breathing room television allowed. Hall was surprised and “honored” to be given the reins, knowing how few …
Issue: July-August 2020
Termites’ Cathedral Mounds
… mystified scientists. In each colony’s underground nest, the millimeter-sized insects store wood for food, cultivate … when they measured carbon dioxide concentration levels surprised them. Because the top of the mound is hotter than the nest, keeping internal …
Issue: November-December 2015
Rethinking the American High School
… When Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine embarked on a six-year study of 30 of the most effective public high schools in the United States, …
Issue: May-June 2019
The Finish Line
… Harvard's university campaign, the most ambitious such effort ever in higher education, … history, surpassing by a wide margin the original goal of $2.1 billion." For the record, the exact sum recorded, according to the University Development Office, was $2,653,396,000, but who's counting? Goal Funds …
The Incident on Ware Street
… On july 16, Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. returned from Logan Airport to the Harvard-owned house he rents on Ware Street. The front … another passerby dialed 911. Sergeant James Crowley, of the Cambridge police department, responded to the call. …
Issue: September-October 2009
Ross Gay Finds the Right Ground at the Radcliffe Institute
… By the end of the hour, Ross Gay had people all but swaying in the aisles. A poet and professor at Indiana University whose 2015 collection, Catalog …
What Makes the Human Mind?
… During the past few decades, a mounting body of evidence has shown … observed in nonhuman animal species, a divergence arises from the ways in which multiple capacities interact in …
Issue: November-December 2008
National Academy of Sciences Elects Harvard Members
… Recognizing their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research,” the National Academy of Sciences on April 29 announced the election of 84 new members, 11 of them from Harvard’s faculties of …
Lessons from the Limelight
… years ago. Jerold S. Kayden ’75, M.C.R.-J.D. ’79, hatched the idea for it and Myra Mayman, head of the Office for the Arts, embraced it. “I was president of the …
Issue: September-October 2005
The President's Grandfather
… Grenville L. Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. '89 (who gave to the Fogg Art Museum 3,700 treasures in all: archaic jades, … case, made by Ahasuerus Fromanteel about 1660 is one of the first-known pendulum clocks; a swing marks a second gone. A favorite of Charles A. Ditmas Jr., G '45, honorary keeper of the …
The Swinging Lingmans
… In college tennis, there are no mixed doubles: athletes play only against their … squads. "He watches all my home matches and I see all of his at home," says Susanna. "We talk after every match, … person I'm closest to in the world. He knows every aspect of my life." The siblings share many similarities, including …
Issue: May-June 2004
“A Sense of Belonging”
… will have something else to celebrate before its eightieth: the largest renovation project in its history. Though a plan … simmering, the project’s timing was spurred by a donation of both books and money from Peter J. Solomon ’60, M.B.A. ’63, chairman and founder of the eponymous investment-banking firm. The proposed …
Issue: May-June 2019
Nixing the News
… If those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it—as philosopher George … once wrote—and if news reports provide a first rough draft of history—as Philip Graham, LL.B. ’39, the late publisher of the Washington Post, said in 1963—then today’s teenagers …
Issue: November-December 2007
The Harvard Review
… Founded in 1992, the Harvard Review ( http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvardreview ) … essays, plays, short fiction, and book reviews. It grew out of Harvard Book Review and Erato, literary magazines started by Stratis Haviaras, former curator of poetry in the Woodberry Poetry Room of Lamont Library. …
Issue: November-December 2005