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Museums in our Midst
… England’s rich history, it may be surprising to learn that there are hundreds of small museums scattered across the region. “One story of … awe and mystery when you walk in and see the scale of these machines,” says Eric Peterson, A.L.M. ’11, director of …
Issue: September-October 2012
In with the New
… Parsnip , which replaced the venerated Upstairs on the Square last fall, lacks the sassy whimsicality of its predecessor. Gone are the fuchsia-colored walls … leaping zebras, the gilded chairs, mirrors, and the sense of participating in an Alice in Wonderland moment that …
Issue: July-August 2016
The HSPH Centennial Leadership Summit
… The Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) followed Thursday night’s unveiling of its $450-million capital campaign with a Centennial … about the third theme, addressing poverty and humanitarian crises. Lastly, to address “failing health systems,” Frenk …
The Endowment: Each School’s Stake
… Harvard’s endowment, valued at $36.9 billion as of last June 30, in fact belongs to the separate schools and other academic departments. The large chart shows the share of the endowment owned by each (the Faculty of Arts and …
Issue: January-February 2009
Uses—and Abuses—of Austerity
… Precious few words in economics evoke emotional responses of any kind. But austerity, the reduction of government deficits through tax increases or pared-down …
Issue: January-February 2019
Wolffs on the Diamond
… Father-son parallels aren’t rare, but Rick Wolff ’73 and John Wolff ’06 have followed the same course into professional baseball with remarkable precision. Both are … good hitting, good speed, and good hands. Anybody surprised? ~ Craig Lambert … Father-son parallels aren’t rare, …
Issue: May-June 2006
Tropical Abstractions
… The art opening on July 1 had the usual ingredients: about … ARKA Gallery in Vladivostok, Russia, on the Sea of Japan in eastern Siberia—made it an historic occasion: … he goes out early in the morning, when the sun has barely risen. The still water becomes a mirror, “and you see …
Issue: September-October 2010
The Upside
… maintain a positive worldview, but many do, motivating themselves to do their hard work, and encouraging those they … lead to engage and enlist their own energies. In the midst of a pandemic emergency that has upset essentially every … 6, when the College announced that no more than 40 percent of undergraduates could be in residence this term, “People …
Renewed, and New
… T he university is now clearly embarked on an historic spurt of physical growth and transformation. Even before a shovel … work just completed, under way, or about to start in other Harvard precincts suggests a building boom not seen … a developer to own one-third of the apartments in a high-rise complex rising now near the Longwood Medical Area. …
Issue: May-June 2005
Yearning for an Upswing
… Rereading, while in self-imposed quarantine, the jittery U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos about the America of 100 years ago—a cynical, fractious, increasingly … rich, the powerful, and the media—produces a jarring sense of recognition. It is always disturbing to realize that …
Issue: November-December 2020
The Need for Communal Healing
… grief. It has started to feel as though it will spill out of me and onto the floor, and when it does it will make a mess that … deaths of loved ones, many are going through mental health crises, and most seem to be experiencing other, individual …
Issue: July-August 2022
Beyond the Crisis Du Jour
… During a meeting on the morning of April 15—Good Friday, and before the first … the COVID-19 pandemic continues, coping with the endless crises it imposed on a residential academic community no …
A Lone Star Saga
… “The best I can describe it,” says Justin Deabler, of the … his family’s history, and his own identity—eventually gave rise to Lone Stars , a sprawling and powerful family epic …
Issue: March-April 2021
From the Archives: Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur?
… Has the start-up economy stalled? Are American businesses … retrospectively seems ill-timed: right at the peak of the dot-com boom. But what about that case study on a … of creativity within established businesses and new enterprises? ~The Editors WHAT APPLICATIONS might they suggest, …
The Undergraduate: Goodbye, L.A.
… My younger brother and I were raking grass off the driveway when the … their calico skirts and Vuitton bags and blond hair that rises to a slight peak and then falls in sunflower petals; …
Issue: January-February 2014