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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
Bill Gates at Harvard
… Editor’s note: Walter Isaacson ’74 , a member of the Board of Overseers and biographer of Steve Jobs and others, is …
Issue: November-December 2013
Wise Restraints
… As a historian, I often find it easiest to look forward by first looking back. … when I helped kick off Harvard Law School’s Campaign for the Third Century, the last launch as part of the Harvard … its founding nearly two centuries ago—a floundering enterprise with just one faculty member and a single student. …
Issue: January-February 2016
Dropping the Global H-Bomb
… her Harvard Oration, “From Baghdad to Boston: Dropping the Global H-Bomb,” at Class Day 2008. Watch the live video recording. … her Harvard Oration, “From Baghdad to Boston: Dropping the Global H-Bomb,” at Class Day 2008... … Dropping the …
Governance at Issue
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) devoted most of its … personal recollections of those governance and financial crises. Although the May 7 discussion framed these mostly … to government within the University. The sense had arisen, he said, that policies now originate within the …
Issue: July-August 2013
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
… The title of Alexander Keyssar’s new book— Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? —is also, he says, the question … Americans ask themselves every four years. The Stirling professor of history and social policy at the Harvard Kennedy …
Saturday Afternoon Improv
… Though the Harvard football team runs one of the most sophisticated offensive sets in the country, the team also likes to play …
Issue: September-October 2004
Cambridge 02138
… The Humanities… While I totally agree with James Engell’s … humanity, and technical skills, there should be ample proof the subject is conversant in civics, history, and the … 14), I am leaning against. This may be considered a surprise by the authors, if they intended to support Harvard‘s …
Issue: March-April 2023
Phi Beta Kappa Oration: "The Anglo-American Scholar?"
… President Summers, President Friedman, fellow members of the Chapter (old and new), ladies and gentlemen: It is a … to address this, the oldest continuously existing chapter of the most venerable honor society in the United States. My …
Financial Reform: The Doggerel
… The financial cataclysm of 2008 has by now perhaps yielded … $35) would seem late to the parade. Yet its editors (IBM professor of business and government Roger B. Porter, adjunct …
Issue: September-October 2011
The National Academy Elects Eight Harvard Professors
… The National Academy of Sciences has elected 120 new members , including eight Harvard professors, drawn principally from the medical and mathematics faculties—but also including a …
Crossing the Ultimate Color Line
… Barack Obama’s election represents the fulfillment of a dream that once seemed unfathomable, writes Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of Harvard’s W.E.B. …
Straight-Up News
… Donald Trump held a summit meeting in Helsinki, Finland. The U.S. intelligence agencies had by then concluded that … had meddled with the American presidential election of 2016. Dan Coats, President Trump’s appointee as director … Wallace soon brought up the election. He also had a surprise in store for Putin. “A prop is always a good thing to …
Issue: May-June 2021
Doug McMillon’s Business School address
… I am deeply honored to be asked to speak with you today, the graduates of Harvard Business School. I'm really excited for you. … The culture and tenure of people in those buildings surprise me. The way they talked about Sam Walton surprise me. …
Guerrillas in the Yard
… Bernard s. glassman ’44, from Bethesda, Maryland, reports: “Sometime in 1942-43, I responded … to pass. We graduated, dispersed, and our premature visions of derring-do and medals came to naught. “In a 1942 issue of the Crimson,” Glassman continues, “there appeared a …
Issue: July-August 2011