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Hope-builder
… to Santiago, Chile — to find his current family, but the one he has settled into is a doozie. Little about growing up east of Albuquerque and Santa Fe, or concentrating in chemistry … up residence with 43 children at Hogar Esperanza ("House of Hope"), an orphanage at the base of the Andean foothills. …
Issue: July-August 2004
The Undergraduate: “Charlie Parker, Who Played the Saxophone”
… I kept my spelling tests from third grade. My mother says this was an eight-year old’s effort to catalogue … know? There are 22, hole-punched in a binder, on the cover of which red gel pen hardened in tall, uneven letters: … make movies. Now chop chop!” I assumed my passion would arise spontaneously, intuitively, perhaps after some …
Issue: September-October 2014
Science and Sculpture
… childhood home in rural New Jersey stands a series of his aluminum sculptures. Called Quantum Stream, these seven rectangular parallelepipeds ascend a grassy … is full of surprising objects: aluminum sculptures that rise nearly to the ceiling, whimsical metal books on the …
Issue: January-February 2007
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
America’s Great Modern Justice
… In the spring of 1864, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was fighting in the Civil War as a Union Army captain. He had enlisted three … 20 and in his last term at Harvard College, in the class of 1861. As an infantry officer in Virginia, he had received …
Issue: May-June 2019
Mick Mulvaney Changes His Mind
… On the morning of January 6, 2021, Mick Mulvaney met with new members of Congress in the Capitol. Mulvaney had served in the Trump … students, Mulvaney related, one student expressed her surprise that he was friends with ABC White House correspondent …
Off the Shelf
… Gasser, LL.M. ’03 (Basic Books, $28.99). Palfrey, formerly of the Law School and now headmaster of Phillips Academy Andover, and Gasser, executive director …
Issue: September-October 2012
At the Mic
… The Commencement afternoon speaker, journalist and author … Zakaria, Ph.D. ’93, LL.D. ’12, gave an upbeat assessment of world affairs. But Phi Beta Kappa orator Derek Bok and … visit harvardmagazine.com/commencement - 2012 . “Profoundly” at Peace Despite economic and other concerns (“The …
Issue: July-August 2012
Adamantios Korais
… Adamantios Korais was one of the most insightful European philologists of the late eighteenth-early nineteenth centuries and the …
Issue: January-February 2022
President Faust on Finances, Scientific Misconduct, the Martin Peretz-Muslim Furor, and More
… Gibson—at Harvard as a Shorenstein Fellow this year—took the stage together in Sanders Theatre on Tuesday afternoon … return in fiscal 2010 ) to the new and vexing (the findings of scientific misconduct against professor of psychology … she said, she knew that they were always filled with surprises, and she never expected to fill a defined role or set …
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
Trends in Harvard’s Hiring and Promotion of Women and Minority Faculty
… With a possibly contentious debate over the College’s current policy sanctioning student members of unrecognized single-gender social organizations averted , the main focus of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on February 7 was …
The 2019 Harvard Medalists
… Three alumni received the Harvard Medal, for extraordinary service to the … her business career by making contributions to the fields of education, cultural exchange, and human rights. The first … she focused on the theme “Harvard Serves.” A past recipient of the Radcliffe Distinguished Service Award, the HAA Award, …
Issue: July-August 2019
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
Girl Power
… When Dan Kindlon watches the Tigers play softball, he sees the legacy of feminism for … still be a woman and do all these other things.” The Rise of the Alpha Girl Long-emerging changes in girls’ …
Issue: January-February 2008