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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
Harvard's New-Normal Financial Results
… The University’s fiscal year 2015, concluded last June 30 … report released today, in many ways mirrors the outcome of the prior year : Harvard again operated modestly in the … the institution as a whole to maintain the research enterprise. The problem is sufficiently acute that Dean Smith, of …
Pizzazz on the Podium
… Alan Gilbert ’89 seems to enjoy whipping up a whirlwind and then taking it for an exhilarating ride. Though only in his … year on the job, the second Harvard-educated music director of the New York Philharmonic has shaken things up at an … less jagged now. The conductor is also prepared to be surprised: to him, his job is both to lead and take in what the …
Issue: March-April 2011
The Talk
… The Commencement-week speakers wove together affectionate … searing personal anecdotes, an explicit evocation of the apocalypse (in President Drew Faust’s address, making … change and through storm.” What does that mean for today’s crises? Where do universities fit in this threatening mix? …
Issue: July-August 2016
Curiosities: A Fantasy Trip
… During a fall jaunt through the Berkshires, follow a bread-crumb trail into the … Rockwell Museum, in Stockbridge. “Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration” (through October 31) features more … centuries. The focus is “on looking at the tradition of American illustration as a reflection and shaper of …
Issue: September-October 2021
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
Active Alternatives
… Harvard offers a panoply of “active learning” opportunities in its various faculties. The new Harvard Initiative on Learning and Teaching (see …
Issue: March-April 2012
A Modest Generation
… So what do we call ourselves? As labels for a generation go, The Silent Generation always struck me as singularly stupid; … began. Welcome to the real world. We are children therefore of the Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the … for that matter, central heating. Dishwashers and laundry machines would have to come later. I still call the …
Issue: May-June 2005
Celebrating Cinema
… Four nights a week , anyone can saunter down to the lowest level of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, buy a ticket, … a delightful technical feat. “People may be surprised by the strange eroticism of some of these films,” …
Issue: January-February 2017
Conceptualizing Small
… The nanoscale world is the realm of the truly small. One … through. The ridges of an old 33-rpm vinyl recording would rise before you like mountain ranges (pictured on this page, …
Issue: January-February 2010
A Worldly Week
… The festival rites began festively on June 4. Trumpet in … spirited “Take the ‘A’ Train.”) It was a resonant reminder of Harvard’s aspirations in the arts (President Drew Faust’s … Provost Steven E. Hyman ordered the black-gowned throng to rise, and boomed out the traditional words: “Their chosen …
Issue: July-August 2009
A. Clayton Spencer Appointed President of Bates
… vice president for policy since 2005, has been elected the eighth president of Bates College , effective July 1. Spencer has worked in … role in issues such as the 2004 formulation and expansion of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI), meant to …
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 …
How Schizophrenia Resembles the Aging Brain
… how to navigate a route she has routinely driven for years? These two hypothetical scenarios seem unrelated. The … and thirties, while the woman exhibits a classic symptom of dementia, which is more common in the elderly. But … link between the two conditions. Although the initial focus of the study was on the roots of schizophrenia, the group …
Issue: July-August 2024