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Taking the Lead
… Epstein Photograph by Jim Harrison Although rain washed out the traditional alumni parade, Marion Coppelman Epstein '24, of Boston, and Philip Keene '25, S.M. '40, of Middletown, Connecticut, the two oldest alumni present, …
Issue: July-August 2002
Censuring the Census
… The 1890 U.S. census asked blacks to identify their status … to discriminate against particular groups—the number of "quadroons" and "octoroons," for example, could be used … loom large in the census. The eight-question short form of the 2000 census, sent to all households, offered as …
Issue: March-April 2003
Government's Deficit Spending
… A deficit at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) that in October was … is among the lowest of any Harvard degree program, and has risen only 3.9 percent annually on average for the last five …
Issue: July-August 2002
Celebrating the Radcliffe Institute's 10th Anniversary
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study celebrates its … anniversary this month. Dean Barbara J. Grosz launched the official recognition today--the anniversary of the signing of the agreement that launched Radcliffe …
“Feelings Ought to Be Investigated”
… too big to do it anymore,” says Deidre Lynch, Bernbaum professor of literature since 2014. “The problem is that the materials we use in Houghton Library … been cast, most famously by the critic Ian Watt, as “the rise of the novel”—a set of steady developments toward the …
Issue: January-February 2017
Broadening the Faculty’s Ranks
… Data on the faculty’s composition, embedded within Faculty of Arts … from 592 in 2000 until the recession, and then plateaued.) Of the 728 ladder-faculty members, 230 are women (up from …
Issue: January-February 2021
Eliot's Elect: The Harvard Classics, 1910
… 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
The Brain at Midlife
… Those of you approaching the golden years, take heart: though scientists once thought brain development was finished by age five, professor of psychiatry Francine Benes has found that it …
From Science to Song
… Like a 370-year-old adolescent, Harvard is in the middle of a growth spurt. In fact, if the building boom … every kind of building project. The high-rise One Western Avenue, at the edge of the business school …
Issue: May-June 2006
Not Building by the Book
… Street , avant-garde Harvard Square may soon be home to one of the architectural “gems” that Pritzker Prize-winner Hans … Harvard selected Hollein, says Scott Levitan, director of University and commercial real estate, “because the core …
Harvard Headlines: Childhood, Unorthodox History of Science, and Lordship in the Twelfth Century
… Among recent Harvard-related book reviews: The Atlantic ran literary and national editor Benjamin Schwarz's review of The Evolution of Childhood by Melvin Konner, Ph.D. ’73, M.D. ’85, in its …
Convocation 2024: The New Crew Redux
… When the Harvard College class of 2027 gathered in Tercentenary … the undergraduates while navigating continuing campus crises prompted by the internal and political reactions to …
Think Locally, Eat Globally
… Venezuelan food is served in an intimate dining room at the newly opened Orinoco (56 JFK Street, 617-354-6900; … Arepas, grilled corn-pocket sandwiches, come with a variety of fillings; we liked the black beans and a white salty … works well for groups. The menu features a wide selection of vegetarian dishes along with some more unusual specialty …
Issue: May-June 2012
America's Stake in the Multilateral World
… Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, LL.D. '03, president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000 and now director of Yale's Center for the Study of Globalization, delivered the following address … the prevention of evils such as international financial crises, recessions, and now deflation, international …
Issue: September-October 2003
Raising the Barre
… Roaming the creaky wooden floors of The Dance Complex on a Sunday, … combination. Castanets clicking amid the staccato thwack of flamenco dancers’ thick-heeled shoes striking the floor. …
Issue: January-February 2016