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Carved in Stone at the Post Office
… Brian Burrell's The Words We Live By: The Creeds, Mottoes, Oaths, and … Our Nation (Free Press, $26) is an engaging omnium-gatherum of words to reckon with, ranging from the solemn creed of the Elvis Presley Impersonators Association to the …
Climbing the Wickersham Wall
… and graduate student Chris Goetze ’61, [Ph.D. ’70,] (at 23 the “old man” of the group)—set out to conquer a previously unscaled … burned down years ago, so there was no chance for a reprise dinner this past June. As another part of our reunion, …
News Briefs
… Preventing Sexual Assault The final report of the University’s task force on the … Fessler, a commercial real-estate veteran, as head of enterprise real estate, a new position. He will direct efforts to …
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Issue: May-June 2016
An Expert on Sharing
… For many teenagers , the summer before college is particularly memorable. They … to wonder: What will college be like? What will become of the relationships I have at home? How will I survive living away from home? These are some of the feelings captured in Roomies (Little, Brown), a …
Issue: September-October 2014
Aristotle and the Drip Pan
… "There is very little technical mathematics in this book, and what there is can easily be skipped over without loss of the principal ideas," writes Philip J. Davis '43, Ph.D. '50, at the start of his memoir, The Education of a Mathematician (A.K. …
Preparing for the Energy Transition
… Roughly 1.7 million workers are likely to lose their jobs as the United States moves away from fossil fuels … and other renewable energy sources, says Wertheim professor in urban policy Gordon Hanson. The Harvard economist … and technical training when the local unemployment rate rises. They hope to release their rankings later in 2023. …
Issue: November-December 2023
Harvard College Announces Admissions, Term Bill
… College announced today that 2,023 students have been offered admission to the class of 2018 ( including the 992 previously notified … news release here. … Admissions rate 5.9 percent; term bill rises to $58,607 … Harvard College class of 2018 admissions …
The Poet's Perspective
… fax in mid September. Kirsch: When I was a student in one of your workshops, about 10 years ago, you had the class translating fragments of Beowulf which, I realize in retrospect, must have been …
Issue: November-December 2006
The Tiger Daughter, Intact
… Lulu Chua-Rubenfeld ’18 was once considered one of the most abused children in the Western world. A main … in her mother’s bestselling parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother , Lulu starred in many anecdotes that …
The Professor Who Quantified Democracy
… In the weeks and months after Donald Trump’s second … up—like a mantra, or maybe a prayer—in different corners of the internet. It was repeated in social media posts, long … newsletters, political podcasts, videos, and the websites of activist organizations. “The Hopeful Math for Saving …
Issue: July-August 2025
Off the Shelf
… it follows a family cruise vacation gone wrong, and charts the waters of misfortune and privilege. Pair with the aloofly lyrical debut of Jesse Ruddock ’04, Shot-Blue (Coach …
Issue: July-August 2017
Governing in the Smartphone Era
… responses, especially when multiple calls came in about the same incident, or one call involved multiple incidents. This made it nearly impossible for officials to tease out why some city residents waited longer for aid—a matter, potentially, of life and death. The city had all the information it …
Issue: November-December 2014
Men's Basketball Swept by Princeton and Pennsylvania
… During the first 20 games of the season, junior center Zena … his team up and recruited better athletes during Harvard’s rise. To an extent, he—and other Ivy coaches—are adapting to …
Julian Schwinger, the Singularity
… In the fall of 1945, at Los Alamos, New Mexico, scientists working on the Manhattan Project heard Julian Schwinger deliver a … a new accelerator he had designed. Mallinckrodt research professor Roy Glauber, then just 20 years old, his …
Understanding Welfare Reform
… One million children pushed into poverty: That was the prediction of a widely cited study on the likely effect of welfare reform, released just before Congress passed the …
Issue: November-December 2004