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"Hypochondria of the Heart"
… In 1688 a Swiss doctor, Johannes Hofer, identified a new medical syndrome, nostalgia : "the sad mood originating from the desire for return to one's native land." Various displaced Swiss of the seventeenth century suffered from the …
Issue: September-October 2001
The Curse of Adonis
… When professor of psychiatry Harrison G. Pope Jr. '69, M.P.H. '72, M.D. … in 1980, it was seen as "rare and exotic. Certainly not the kind of thing that a Harvard faculty member would do," … faculty pump iron at gyms, along with Pope and millions of others across the country. "There's been a drastic …
The Resurrection of the Marlboro Man
… Battles about the future of smoking have always been waged over children. … tobacco companies, the young represent the next generation of smokers. Public-health advocates like Barry Bloom and Jay …
Issue: September-October 2019
A New Story of Suffrage
… If the women’s suffrage movement took place today, what would … to spread the word about their cause. Today’s world of online activism can feel deprived of that vitality—which … during this period, including industrialization and the rise of wage labor, might provide a richer explanation for …
Issue: May-June 2019
Education for the Soul
… In India, where she has conducted research, and in the United States, where she teaches, Martha C. Nussbaum … and a flourishing business culture”—but at the expense of humanistic education to “promote a climate of responsible … over the world will soon be producing generations of useful machines, rather than complete citizens who can think for …
Issue: July-August 2010
The Law of Gravity
… What goes up indeed comes down. Following the breathtaking 32.2 percent return on investments for the … in 1983. The change in direction could hardly surprise anyone who paid attention to an environment that HMC … percent endowment return exceeded the aggregate performance of HMC's "policy portfolio" (the weighted mix of different …
Issue: November-December 2001
Medicine in the Middle of Nowhere
… There was still some light in the sky that evening after … shuffling over to find a spot near the fire. The heat of the day had faded only slightly. Still, they were … of you is important. In the wilderness, away from X-ray machines and MRIs and blood-chemistry workups, the patient’s …
Issue: November-December 2017
The Senior Celebrants of 2009
… The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on Commencement day were Frances Pass Addelson ’30, 100, of Brookline, Massachusetts, and George Barner ’29, Ed ’32, … L ’33, 100, of Kennebunk, Maine. Both were recognized at the afternoon ceremony by HAA president Walter H. Morris …
Issue: July-August 2009
Seeking the First Speakers of Indo-European Language
… A new study of ancient DNA from 727 individuals who lived in the regions cradling the southern half of the Black Sea, and … root words. But where and when did the original language arise, and who spoke it? Answering such questions has in the …
“Be the Voice of Health”
… , Class Day speaker for Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, is best known as the pediatrician, … advocate whose research exposed lead poisoning in the water of Flint, Michigan, in 2015—and indeed, much of her speech …
Harvard College Admits Class of 2026
… The College has admitted 1,954 of 61,220 applicants to the … rate last year —the arithmetical result of the continuing rise in the applicant pool. Looking ahead, Harvard has …
Miller of "The Bay State Banner"
… I’ve always found that I thought about things—even from the time I was in grammar school—a little differently,” … Melvin B. Miller ’56 told this magazine on the eve of his sixty-fifth reunion. “I was never too reluctant to … a different opinion.” As founder, editor, and publisher of The Bay State Banner —a newspaper primarily for and about …
Issue: March-April 2022
How America Grew
… Human existence changed irreversibly after the innovation of indoor plumbing and municipally supplied … moves forward at an engaging pace. Nonetheless, a tension arises when he turns to the present, in the last fifth of the …
Issue: May-June 2016
Yesterday's News
… Bonaparte, A.B. 1899, declines an invitation to ascend the Albanian throne. “Sometimes Harvard indifference is … too far,” comment Bulletin editors. 1927 At a Harvard Club of Boston colloquium titled “What is the Sub-Freshman … and is about to be extended to laundry and vending machines in all undergraduate dorms and Houses. … From the …
Issue: January-February 2017
The Dance of Intellect
… what relationship, if any, poetry has to rational thought. The majority view is that poetry is the literary genre most … entertaining the idea, to drench the idea in a weather of sensibility so as to register its emotional effects. The … chapter on Whitman, she shows us how Whitman's use of reprise as an organizing principle, moving from some perceptual …
Issue: January-February 2005