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Rediscovering the Unconscious
… Intuition, happiness, and memory were the topics on the table Monday night as Princeton … on human judgment and cognitive bias, which won him a share of the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics . In conversation with Walmsley University Professor Cass Sunstein , Kahneman considered implications of …
Hopkinson Smith, Beyond the Instrument
… J.S. Bach as a musical ecologist. “He recycled so many of his own works,” Smith explains. “He never stopped trying … what he’d written.” It was an accepted musical practice at the time, but one imagines the composer was driven at least in part by pragmatism: his posts in a number of German cities required him to produce new compositions at …
Issue: May-June 2016
Cow in the Yard
… Veggie comestibles. Mo[oooo]vere ad Deum et ruminare and the Udderly Tuba Ensemble jazzing up “Old MacDonald.” … and grazed in the Yard on September 9, admired by throngs of spectators. “Faith,” ordinarily resident at The Farm … “is the real celebrity today,” declared Hollis professor of divinity Harvey Cox, who engineered her …
Football: Harvard 45-Princeton 13
… When Andy Aurich was introduced last winter as the new Thomas Stephenson family head coach for Harvard football, there was an undercurrent of grumbling, not only that he had never been a head coach … energy, the hard work they put in this week, I’m not surprised by the outcome. I fully expected it.” But he did …
Failing the Coronavirus-Testing Test
… “At the moment, the United States has no semblance of … for the coronavirus, says Michael Mina, an assistant professor of epidemiology at both Harvard Medical School and …
Living Wage: Next Stage
… On the last day of January, President Lawrence H. Summers … University would adopt the "living wage" recommendations of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting … to $3.7 million. Assuming that security workers' pay would rise in any case, especially given the fallout from …
Issue: March-April 2002
Jorge Domínguez Loses Emeritus Status after Misconduct Investigation
… Jorge Domínguez , formerly Madero professor for the study of Mexico and Harvard’s first vice provost for … independent commission “to investigate what conditions gave rise to this situation and what can be done to prevent this …
Football: Harvard 45, Georgetown 0
… The tiredest fellow at Harvard Stadium last Friday night may … Kenny Smart ’18. The Crimson placekicker had a full evening of work, having swung his right leg on the game’s opening … has been competitive in every game and appears to be on the rise under third-year coach (and former Cornell captain) …
College Curriculum Change Completed
… During the second weekend in May, just before the Faculty of Arts … domain. During the May 15 discussion, however, she did rise—prompting Bok to ask, to much laughter, “Could you …
Issue: July-August 2007
Chapter & Verse
… Herbert Allard requests a source for "...dry clashed the harness on the barren walls...." He takes harness to mean armor. Peter Roberts is hunting for a description of the ocean, possibly by Proust, containing phrases he … of Florence (book 5, chapter 1)— " For valor gives rise to peace, peace to indolence, indolence to disorder, …
Issue: March-April 2003
Outside-In Ur-banism
… The most fascinating thing about the suburbanites living around the ancient Mesopotamian settlement of Tell Brak isn’t who they were, according to archaeologist … what is today northeastern Syria, a few hundred miles north of Gilgamesh’s Uruk (Tell Brak’s most celebrated …
Issue: May-June 2008
Ways to Support the Magazine
… our online giving form. Donate by Mail Mail a check to the magazine: Harvard Magazine c/o Fundraising Department 7 … donors to dedicate tax-deductible funds to support a nonprofit organization. Explore some of the following DAF options (login required). Fidelity …
The Campaign Context
… university fundraising drives collect stupendous sums: the Stanford Challenge attracted $6.23 billion; the University of Southern California has set a $6-billion goal. Given … education, a similar sum is likely to headline coverage of The Harvard Campaign at its public unveiling on September …
Issue: September-October 2013
The Late, Lamented Harvard University Press Display Room: A Photo Archive
… Read about the closing in " Last Chapter ," September-October 2009. … The brick-and-mortar bookstore's closure is a sign of the times, reflecting the University's downsizing and book sales' migration online. … 24803 … A consequence of Harvard downsizing and book buyers' migration to Amazon … …
Issue: September-October 2009
The 2010 Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who … enough, he also plays the viola.” Somehow, we’re not surprised. For your captivating scholarship, for your …