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“To Break Our Own Rules”
… For years, Dan Chiasson, Ph.D. ’01, had been hearing their voices outside his office window, the frolic of high-schoolers attending … Chiasson last spring. His dual writing life in part gave rise to the stunning long poem “Must We Mean What We Say?” …
Issue: November-December 2020
The Beauty Bounty
… well. Since 1994, numerous studies have found that workers of above- average beauty earn 5 to 15 percent more than those with below-average looks. Those differences are of a similar order of magnitude as the premiums we associate with race and gender, says …
Issue: November-December 2006
In the Valley
… as well. With more and more undergraduates taking semesters off to study, work, and volunteer far from Cambridge, the College hosts a special mid-year observance for degree … who can’t make the spring ceremony. Michael Zuckerman ’10, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, a social studies concentrator …
Issue: May-June 2011
Kid from a Flyover State
… winter exams, I flew home and was picked up by my father in Indianapolis. We detoured through Terre Haute on the way to New Harmony, in the south of our state, driving all the way beneath a gray, … but he’s so bemused by the fanciful brick and high-rise architecture of his temporary home that he has to stop …
Issue: March-April 2016
When Having Babies Beats Marriage
… In February The New York Times ran a story under the provocative … headline, “For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside of Marriage.” The article suggested childbearing outside of marriage was the “new normal”—that recently released data …
Issue: July-August 2012
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2024-2025 Fellows
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will welcome 52 fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year as part of its twenty-fifth anniversary class. The incoming … felt more certain that Radcliffe’s approach—its embrace of interdisciplinary research and discourse across …
Harvard Long Jump Record of 93 Years Broken
… The Harvard record in the long jump—25 feet, 3 inches—a … archives ), the scholar-athlete was hailed as “a breaker of barriers” because his achievements stretched beyond track … press comment” at the time. Taking up the mantle of Harvard record-holder in the long jump is freshman Elliot …
Pulitzer Gift of Art Works and $45 Million Boosts Harvard Art Museum
… and scholarship—and a matching engagement with the University—Emily Rauh Pulitzer, A.M. '63, has given the Harvard Art Museum 31 important works of modern and contemporary art (one of the most significant such donations in the museum’s …
Honoris Causa
… University provost Alan M. Garber, in this role for the first time (he took office last September 1), introduced the honorands, and … victims). Doctor of Music: Daring, eclectic, full of surprise, an American original, Crimson bred, whose music stirs, …
Issue: July-August 2012
Professor of Organizational Behavior Paul Lawrence Dies
… M.B.A. ’47, D.C.S. ’50, a Harvard Business School professor whose work on a unifying theory of organizational behavior was the subject of an article in …
“Panic in the Year Zero”
… "Panic in the Year Zero," by D.A. Powell Bless the tourists in their “Alcatraz Rocks!” parkas on the upper deck of a double-decker in any given February bluster. … though they seem to get snugger by the minute. What kind of help could they get if they could get help? …
Beowulf in the Yard
… The morning after Beowulf wrenches off Grendel’s arm—thus purging the Danish royal hall of its unwelcome visitor—King Hrothgar’s men trace the …
Four Freedoms Park Honors FDR, Class of 1904
… In 1972, Welfare Island in the East River was renamed Roosevelt Island; a year later, … Louis I. Kahn was charged with designing a park in honor of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, A.B. ’04, LL.D. ’29, … School 22 Chorus—gathered on the island on October 17 to officially open the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms …
Open Book: The Photographer’s Art
… Burden professor of photography Robin Kelsey is the rare art historian with a Yale law degree (read the profile, “From Daguerreotype to Photoshop,” …
Issue: July-August 2015
Yesterday’s News
… 1926 The annual picture-taking of freshmen and seniors in front … that average student expenses for an academic year have risen from $510 in 1900 to $1,200 in 1930, “for the same …
Issue: May-June 2006