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Life As Improvisation: The Baccalaureate Service
… urged graduating seniors to make career choices for love rather than money; she began this year’s address by noting … world has changed that for you.” Her advice for the class of 2009: view the uncertain climate not as reason for … not seem like a gift now,” she said, “but it is. Instead of waking up when you are 45 suddenly wondering what your …
Connecting to the River Parklands
… Meanwhile, back in Cambridge , students of Bucksbaum professor in urban design Joan Busquets have transformed their studio class at the Graduate School of Design into a …
Issue: March-April 2005
The Burst of the South Sea Bubble
… In the north lobby of Harvard Business School’s Baker Library, … earliest and most significant international financial crises. “British citizens from all walks of life invested in … The ensuing panic, coupled with concurrent financial crises in England, the Dutch Republic, and France that same …
Countering Alcohol
… In the fall of 2003, dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross—once an … treatment at the College. (Gross had earlier pointed to the rise in UHS admissions as an indication of a student body …
Issue: January-February 2005
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 Intellectual Clash Over Final Clubs
… Harvard College administrators may not have anticipated the fierce and intensely public debate that would erupt in response to the announcement at the end of April that members of historically male final clubs, Greek organizations, and …
“In the Bee-Loud Glade”
… us for Borders closing,” jokes Brian Buckley ’90, owner of the Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Café in Boulder, … poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” are hard to miss: I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin …
Issue: November-December 2011
Samuel Huntington, Prophet
… Even by the relaxed standards of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences … was “chosen by the publisher of the article that gave rise to the book and [was] not one that he particularly …
Issue: January-February 2018
The Bruce Museum
… “Doc” Edgerton, on display this fall in an exhibit at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. In the 1930s, Edgerton, an MIT professor of electrical engineering, developed technology that used …
Issue: September-October 2016
The Broken Social Contract
… Political philosopher Danielle S. Allen, Conant University Professor and, for a time, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of Massachusetts, has examined the pandemic in light of …
Issue: May-June 2022
Off the Beaten Track
… and written. His role as a team anthropologist and director of research for an interactive Quest expedition to Australia drew the investigative eye and sharp pencil of a grade-school student in Toms River, New Jersey; she …
Issue: January-February 2002
Bacteria Are the Cake
… Andrew H. Knoll, Ph.D. '77, Fisher professor of natural history, is a paleontologist who integrates … life. In his accessible new book, Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth …
Issue: September-October 2003
The New Ancient Trend in Medicine
… In the 1950s American Cancer Society had a Committee on … Later that turned into a committee on "unproven methods of cancer management," superseded by one on "questionable … methods." The names indicate a gradual acceptance of the unconventional; today the cancer society has a …
Issue: March-April 2002
Language as a Litmus Test for AI
… in human evolution, has long been considered a hallmark of human intelligence, and when Barbara Grosz started … working on problems in artificial intelligence (AI) in the 1970s, it was the litmus test for defining machine … The idea that language could be used as a kind of Occam’s razor for identifying intelligent computers dates …
Issue: January-February 2019
The “Surprise” Team?
… Last April , the men’s basketball team gathered at the Harvard Club of Boston for its annual end-of-the-year banquet, to … the returning players that they had an opportunity to “surprise” people, just as he and his teammates had done during …