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Spring Forward
… gardens, but those that do grow here inspire passion in the hearts of hardy-zoned green thumbs. The Glebe House, for example—the Connecticut birthplace of the Episcopal Church in the New World—also boasts the …
Issue: March-April 2013
Brutish Beginnings
… Colonial history , I’ve often told my students, isn’t pretty. The well-scrubbed Williamsburg, Virginia, that tourists see … much less to the enslaved laborers who made up most of its population in the eighteenth century. And almost …
Issue: January-February 2013
Final Clubs: The Lingering Aftermath
… As previously reported, the Harvard Corporation has adopted a policy that prohibits undergraduate members of unrecognized single-gender social organizations (USGSOs: … such as Rhodes and Marshall scholarships. In the wake of the process that resulted in that decision, extending …
Near and Distant Objectives
… The opening words of Noah Feldman’s latest book, The Arab … Yurid Isqat al-nizam! The people Want The overthrow of the regime! As he explains in his first sentence, “These … including those that fueled the Syrian civil war and the rise of the Islamic State.” The book’s theme is optimistic …
Issue: September-October 2020
Zora Neale Hurston in the Spotlight
… Two Harvard scholars have recently contributed to the conversation on Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” a previously unpublished 1931 … this April, the much-anticipated book recounts the life of Cudjo Lewis, who was believed to be the last living …
Eating for the Environment
… Eshel sits down for a meal, his plate holds a full agenda. There’s the food, of course—plant-based, in his case. But beyond the barley and snap peas spills a cornucopia of environmental, social, and political considerations. …
Issue: March-April 2017
Islam in the United States, from 1492 to 2008
… A recent episode of the Here & Now interview show on WBUR, a Boston-based … Public Radio affiliate, features Jocelyne Cesari, director of Harvard's Islam in the West Program and editor of the new …
The Results Are In
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and of the new …
Issue: July-August 2010
Flying Squirrel
… Inside the Pilatus Porter airplane, he zipped his wingsuit, lowered … per hour—as fast as a racecar and without the advantage of solid ground. That 5.5-minute flight over Argentina’s … I have to make sure that what I am doing on one side of my body is exactly mirrored on the other side,” Montagna …
Issue: March-April 2023
The SIGnboard: SIG Snapshot
… “We’re energized, we’re growing, and we’re on the cusp of new things,” reports Acey Welch ’53, president of the Alumnae-i Network for Harvard Women (ANHW; …
Issue: March-April 2015
An Unscripted Life: The 2010 Baccalaureate Service
… “By ancient and curious custom,” President Drew Faust told the graduating class of 2010 in her May 25 Baccalaureate address, “it falls to me to offer you a final sermon before you go.” Speaking from …
Behind the Scenes: Writing about Oneself
… to give alumni a look into College life by writing about the undergraduate I knew best: me. For my final essay as a … my life, I learned (quite against my will) about the power of slowing down and doing nothing in particular. As I adapted to the pace of my home state of Alabama, I felt my mind open up to new …
Honoris Causa
… honorary degrees at Harvard's 350th Commencement. In order of presentation, the honorands were: Charles Hard Townes. His Nobel Prize-winning research in quantum electronics gave rise to the maser and the laser. An alumnus of Duke, of …
Land of Honesty and Mystery
… Elisa Nabel ’11 spent the summer of 2008 in Rwanda doing medical research, but … traditional African drumming and dance, an interest of hers (she is part of a group that performs African …
Issue: November-December 2009
Breathing New Life into “The Eyesore on Church Street”
… Yesterday evening in a meeting open to the public, Cambridge business owners and residents gathered around a projector at the back of Beat Brasserie in Harvard Square to learn about the future of 10 Church Street. The redesign process for the …