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Making the Case
… The United States of America is an idea—and an ideal. Each … and work on our campus. Today, international students comprise nearly a quarter of our community, and we host more … of ideals and values that are the heart of our enterprise and the soul of this country? There are, perhaps, no …
Issue: May-June 2018
The New Rub on Knee Pain
… Ian Wallace has traveled across the country examining skeletons in the basements of museums and in the backroom closets of medical institutes. He’s seen 2,576 of them, to be exact, …
Issue: January-February 2018
Mike Schur on the Good Life
… he says. “I don’t know why anyone would decline any school of thought if it has something good to teach you.” This is not a typical conversation in the world of sitcoms, an arena where Schur’s track record is hard to …
Issue: March-April 2022
The Campus, Quieted
… If “coronavirus” or “social distancing” becomes the word of the year, Harvard will have had a leg up on the … the virus’s biology, diagnostic tools, and development of vaccines and therapies. (See harvardmag.com/sars2fight - …
Issue: May-June 2020
Take to the Hills
… The Blue Hills Reservation spans more than 7,000 acres, forming a scenic chain of largely unspoiled nature, just south of Boston. It’s the largest state-owned green space that …
Issue: November-December 2016
Meet the 2011 Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal , first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Speaking Nature’s Language
… The powerful new gene-editing system Crispr-Cas9 “is a … he and many other scientists already consider it one of “the pillars of molecular biology right now.” A … uses of Crispr-Cas9 to edit human cells. Its subsequent rise as a gene-editing tool has been swift. The system …
Issue: May-June 2016
Echo Chamber—and Amplifier
… Poets writing in English have six centuries’ worth of forms at their disposal. During the Renaissance, Shakespeare and … saint,” the intensely psychological Wordsworth of “Surprised by Joy.” And it is revelatory to see, alongside these …
Issue: July-August 2010
Off the Shelf
… The Case for Big Government , by Jeff Madrick, M.B.A. ’71 (Princeton, $22.95). The editor of Challenge argues that “active and sizable government has … Institution senior fellow, are but the leading edge of robotic conflict in the twenty-first century. Postcards …
Issue: March-April 2009
Harvard Reports a Significant Surplus
… The University’s financial report for the fiscal year ended … budget surplus, nearly $200 million—during a period of continued U.S. economic growth and at the end of the … noted, expenses for operating and occupying buildings has risen, along with the largest capital-spending program in …
The Animals’ Kingdom
… Fluffy the cat lounges beside a campfire, licking herself on a … White founded the farm 20 years ago and depends on a crew of devoted volunteers, adults and teenagers, to keep it open … to get to know animals, this is the place to do it.” Dozens of cats roam the grounds, while goats, mini-horses, rabbits, …
Issue: July-August 2016
Cambridge 02138
… service to readers, Harvard Magazine publishes letters to the editor on its contents and on Harvard matters, broadly defined. Beyond printing a representative sample of letters received in each bimonthly magazine, they and … promotion of the objective of diversity has also given rise to the suspicion that scholarship standards have been …
Issue: March-April 2024
Janitors Reach Contract Agreement with Harvard
… , it appeared that Harvard’s custodial staff might follow the dining workers’ decision to strike, a move that last … their contract expired. Janitors will receive wage raises of 12.5 percent over the life of the four-year contract, … Eugenio Villasente said in a statement. “Costs continue to rise in the Boston area….While the city came out of the …
Exclusivity, from the Inside
… I was the kind of kid who would actually respond to the mass email … incoming freshman class. I didn’t realize he was the kind of dean who would reply, asking to meet me. At the time, I … in this organization. As a comper I would have been surprised to learn how fervently the Advocate tries to make its …
Issue: May-June 2017
Janos Plesch
… prescribed indefinite bed rest. But somehow Keynes heard of an émigré physician, Janos Plesch. This was before … penicillin, but Plesch was able to prescribe Prontosil—the first of the sulfa drugs. God knows where he got it. The … his autobiography—to expose young children to tanning machines in order to prepare them for exposure to the sun. …
Issue: January-February 2004