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… Bonaparte, A.B. 1899, declines an invitation to ascend the Albanian throne. “Sometimes Harvard indifference is … too far,” comment Bulletin editors. 1927 At a Harvard Club of Boston colloquium titled “What is the Sub-Freshman … and is about to be extended to laundry and vending machines in all undergraduate dorms and Houses. … From the …
Issue: January-February 2017
A Democracy of Opportunity
… for a second term as president by pressing to rebuild the United States as “a democracy of opportunity.” At the Democratic National Convention, FDR … that is becoming new again. Before the twentieth-century rise of economics as a discipline, thinkers as varied as …
Issue: January-February 2022
The Dark Side of Boston
… evening, Boston’s North End is buzzing. Done with tours of Old North Church or the Paul Revere House, or just arriving for a fun night out, … or head to Copp’s Hill Terrace for romantic views of Boston Harbor. The city’s oldest neighborhood wasn’t …
Issue: September-October 2018
Flavors of Latin America & the Caribbean
… So you have come to Latin America? Welcome to the land of some of the best food in the world! Although rice and beans are …
Medicine in the Middle of Nowhere
… There was still some light in the sky that evening after … shuffling over to find a spot near the fire. The heat of the day had faded only slightly. Still, they were … of you is important. In the wilderness, away from X-ray machines and MRIs and blood-chemistry workups, the patient’s …
Issue: November-December 2017
The Language of Emotion
… feeling “angry” or “distressed” or “dejected,” what do they really mean? Psychologists vigorously debate whether … concepts mean, and how people understand them, is part of Nook’s work with Leah Somerville, an associate professor … as a function of age, “was almost a complete surprise to us,” Somerville says. Nook had expected …
Issue: July-August 2018
The Way of the Long Strings
… To be a virtuoso musician and a college student at the same time is somewhat like forcing two people into one … —skills that develop through three or four hours of practice every evening. Photograph by Stu Rosner Then, that little matter of studying. Carter, a psychology concentrator, does her …
Issue: March-April 2003
The Fingerprints of Diabetes…and Other Diseases
… If exercise is such a bellwether of health, and one’s metabolic profile reflects fitness and well-being, might the opposite …
Issue: May-June 2011
The Federal Fisc
… L ONG BEFORE the presidential primaries, or a paralyzing pandemic, … by the national elections, that mattered to the future of the country—and that would probably be addressed … terms of health value received for dollars spent, may surprise you. It has certainly proven resistant to political …
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Issue: May-June 2020
Lasting Impressions
… Eliot '10 had his shoes not shined but boned, polished with the downy side of the femur of an elk or deer, a tool of atavistic … merger in which a new science and engineering campus would rise across the Charles River, where the business school is …
In the Wake of Tragedy
… After the catastrophic March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami … word that they were all right, and share their accounts of the disaster and its aftermath. Several survivors shared … firsthand accounts; on March 19 (the most recent entry as of this writing), Yukari Fujita, M.T.S. ’96, posted an …
The Future of the Research University
… do research universities perform in our society? How can they reconcile the tension between liberal education and … be sorted out as information technologies enable new forms of teaching? Will residential research universities retain … Their appearance was not inevitable. Perhaps one is not surprised that state universities were started to do …
Education for the Soul
… In India, where she has conducted research, and in the United States, where she teaches, Martha C. Nussbaum … and a flourishing business culture”—but at the expense of humanistic education to “promote a climate of responsible … over the world will soon be producing generations of useful machines, rather than complete citizens who can think for …
Issue: July-August 2010
The State of the Libraries
… Editor's note: Pforzheimer University Professor Robert Darnton, the Harvard University Librarian since 2007, is retiring at … Archives of North America, as this collective enterprise is known, provides another example of how Harvard can …
“The Wise Person Learns from All People”
… seniors, President Lawrence S. Bacow recalled that in the fall of 2019, he had told this class at their freshman convocation that “Anyone who is thinking of the next four years as a series of stepping stones to a …