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Music, Noted
… “But we don’t have recordings from back then, do we?” We all have our own version of the stupidest question people might ask when they find … music, from the ninth century onward. At this point, some of my collocutors’ eyes glaze over because musical notation …
Issue: November-December 2014
COVID-19 and the Graduate Student Union
… May 1 marked two years since the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers … Harvard’s priorities, graduate students, who do much of the University’s teaching labor that now must be … (as opposed to the multi-year agreement that is typical of union contracts), given the University’s uncertain …
Harvard Class of ’18 Yield Remains 82 Percent
… Harvard College announced today that nearly 82 percent of the 2,023 candidates offered admission to the class of 2018 had accepted—meaning …
Debating Diversity
… Amid widely publicized student protests on campuses around the country in the last year and a half, many of them animated by concerns about racial and class … Harvard has had its own—sometimes quieter—upwelling of activism. The cadence of campus protests has gained …
Issue: March-April 2016
Off the Shelf
… Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, by Stephen Burt, associate professor of English (Graywolf Press, $16, paper). Confronting Randall … to be read--Burt’s collected critical essays aim to ease the task, with introductions to poets ranging from A.R. …
Issue: July-August 2009
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
Solving the Social Sciences’ Hard Problems
… Across all the disciplines of the social sciences—economics, history, … problems that need solving, and which are most worthy of time spent working on a solution? Scholars from a range …
Street-level Ballet
… Unlike teaching or medicine, the arts don’t offer an obvious mechanism for community … Afro-Brazilian) educated at San Francisco’s School of the Arts, had long hoped to find a way to combine dance …
Issue: May-June 2011
Farm the Yard
… When Harvard was founded, most of its students arrived rich in practical experience, and in need of some abstraction : colonists knew how to plow, how to build, how to work the physical world. Higher education was for adding a layer …
Issue: September-October 2011
“The Art, the Play, and the Rigor”
… During her first week of teaching at Harvard, the flutist Claire Chase was arrested while blocking traffic … program. The demonstration was organized by and mostly comprised faculty members from the history department; having a …
Issue: May-June 2018
Off the Shelf
… House paperback original, $14 ). This debut novel, begun as the author’s senior thesis (she has since graduated from the … family and marriage—arranged, or for love—in the context of Sri Lanka’s horrific, now generational, civil war. Free … and election-year skirmishing over trade pacts, a professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of …
Issue: July-August 2008
The American Exception
… Historian R.H. Tawney famously explored the ties between Protestantism and economic development in Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926). Now, nearly a century later, in a new …
Issue: January-February 2021
Academic Harvard: The Inaugural Symposiums
… Visiting dignitaries from other colleges and universities, and friends of Harvard present for the occasion, were served a … science came together to discuss “Origins of Life: Surprises and Puzzles,” as members of the Origins of Life …
Masauko Chipembere
… , Malawi’s premier nationalist, came to Harvard in the early 1970s as an exile, to write his autobiography and the biography of a freedom struggle in Africa that had not been concluded. Although the architect of Malawi’s 1964 independence, he had been unceremoniously …
Issue: May-June 2010
The Quotes Queue
… Alongside the March-April cover story, “Quotable Harvard,” compiled by … is ridiculous….”—Attributed to John Jacob Astor IV, class of 1888, aboard the Titanic “It’s not easy getting up here and saying nothing. It takes a lot of preparation.”—Barry Toiv ’77, then serving as President …
Issue: May-June 2011