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Writing through the Haze
… There is an ebb and flow to working for a small paper. Due to a lack of universal name recognition or high-ranking contacts, very … over and see what it’s about?” His question took me by surprise and made me pretty nervous, but I immediately jumped at …
Harvard Headlines: Religious Fundamentalism, Juvenile Justice, the Homebuyer Tax Credit, and More
… Here are our picks from the latest Harvard-related opinion, news, and features: Among 2009 graduates of Harvard Business School, 28 percent went into finance … bank consultant” Ray Soifer, M.B.A. ’65, the source of the statistic, still deems this year’s number a “mildly …
Behind Closed Doors
… More than 100 houses in New England, from the colonial era through the twentieth century, have been … art institutions, these places reveal not only the work of their former inhabitants but the habits, predilections, and even failings that comprised their daily lives. Following is a selection of such …
Issue: July-August 2013
Thinner Ice
… The revolting late-winter reports about wealthy parents … recruits—and thus into institutions such as the University of Southern California and Yale—seem an unfortunate, totemic … the elements are there: shameless status-seeking; the sense of entitlement associated with wealth, and emphatically …
Issue: July-August 2019
Geopolitics and the Energy Transition
… On January 25, Kirkpatrick professor of the practice of international affairs Meghan O’Sullivan, … slow the energy transition, or make it more expensive. The rise of so-called “middle powers” including the OPEC …
Please Touch the Art
… In the fall of 2011 , the public first encountered the interactive sculpture … Friedman Gallery in London. Inspired by the engagement of Prince William to Kate Middleton a year before, it’s a …
Issue: March-April 2013
Michael Velchik: “Of a Gate to Harvard Yard”
… The Latin Salutatory is an old tradition at Harvard ( read … width:402] Latin orators "usually exploit the absurdity of talking about contemporary things in an ancient language, … and draw attention to that incongruity," says Pope professor of the Latin language and literature R.J. Tarrant, …
Here Come the Quants!
… It’s not news that student interest in computer science and other applied disciplines is burgeoning nationwide, for … problems; a Facebook effect (the transformative power of computing meets who wants to be a billionaire?); strong … about triple the census just before the financial crises and recession in 2007-2008. The surprise is that this …
Issue: January-February 2017
Ephemeral Attractions
… On a glorious spring afternoon in April, when the sky was a continuous, deep blue, Arnold Arboretum … perfect young female seed cones—red, brown, purple, or pink—of Larix siberica, the Siberian larch. He paused … stopping to admire the beautiful exfoliating bark of Acer griseum, explaining that it is photosynthetic, like a leaf. …
Issue: July-August 2016
Changes at the Top
… It’s the changing of the University guard, as President Drew Faust steps down and … Bacow, a member elected in 2011 in the first cohort of new fellows as the Corporation expanded from seven …
Issue: July-August 2018
A Yodel for Help in the Modern World
… In 1971, when Howard Stein was professor of playwriting at the Yale School of Drama, the program accepted a young … research fellow at Harvard, moved his theatrical enterprise from New Haven to Harvard in 1979, and the following …
Issue: March-April 2009
The SIGnboard
… The Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 30 … . Harvard Magazine invites SIG officers to share news of their groups' activities in this space. (Send items to …
Issue: November-December 2010
Cora Du Bois
… Students referred to her as formidable , using the French pronunciation. Friends called her “Ropy”—“Radcliffe’s Only Professor.” But Cora Du Bois, in fact, wasHarvard’s first tenured female professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, thanks to a …
Issue: January-February 2016
History and Democracy
… Editor’s note: Introducing himself as a Princeton professor wearing a Yale gown as he prepared to address a Harvard audience, historian Sean Wilentz told the new Phi Beta Kappa inductees on June 6 that they had … once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme. Americans, a hopeful …
Issue: September-October 2006
The Roxbury International Film Festival
… Future, by Canadian filmmaker Damon Kwame Mason, explores the history of black hockey athletes, from the Coloured Hockey League in … Festival in Boston (June 22-July 1). Held at the Museum of Fine Arts, the event highlights works by emerging and …
Issue: May-June 2016