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Citizen Scholars
… “Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors,” New York Times columnist (and Harvard Overseer) … websites with space to fill; and the hunger—evident in the rise of explanatory journalism sites—for “strong, empirical, …
Issue: September-October 2014
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … obituaries. … 31354 … Class notes and obituaries … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: November-December 2011
The Traumatized Brain
… accident five years ago, “John” began suffering from a host of symptoms—headaches, fatigue, irritability, difficulty concentrating. At the time of the accident—John was rear-ended by the driver behind …
Issue: March-April 2012
Pudding Pots & Parody
… Five years after the founding of the Hasty Pudding Club in 1795, in the dorm room of Nymphas Hatch, A.B. 1797, the then-secret society staged …
Issue: January-February 2020
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … … 34701 … Class notes and obituaries May-June 2012 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: May-June 2012
Faculty Diversity Developments
… Women now hold 26 percent of the ladder-faculty positions (professor, associate … in the University’s faculty ranks, the number of women has risen by 55 (or 16 percent) during the past six years. The …
Health Benefits to Cost 7 Percent More
… As the annual employee enrollment in health and other benefits … year 2017: The health programs will look similar to those offered last year , retaining the basic structure of … then modified slightly for 2016). And premium costs will rise, on average, 7.0 percent—only slightly below the …
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … and obituaries. … 31353 … Class notes and obituaries … The Classes … article …
Issue: September-October 2011
Alice Paul
… Alice Paul challenged Woodrow Wilson to a political face-off, she was a day shy of 32, a slightly built New Jersey Quaker with a crown of … “Suffragists Carry Fight to Gates of White House,” clamored the headlines. Picketing the White House, a first in the …
Issue: November-December 2010
Curiouser and Curiouser!
… enlarged beyond imagination. It’s an experience not unlike the one I wish for our incoming students each fall, the sudden and strange feeling of reaching unimaginable heights and gaining new perspective. Yet I also wish for them humbling moments of awe at the scope of ambition and talent that exists …
Issue: September-October 2022
William Brooks Cabot
… miles from friends and family, and immensely happy. "The night was clear, there was a white frost, and the … slept through as well as I," he wrote near the end of a 70-day journey in 1905. "The northern lights were … Cabot was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, but lived much of his life around Boston. He made his fortune designing …
Issue: September-October 2001
Open Book
… Michael Ignatieff, Ph.D. ’76 and former professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, is a professor at, and former … with: the tidal force of political malice that recurrently rises and threatens the hard-won civility on which a …
Issue: March-April 2022
The Week’s Events
… Exercises, at 11, with poet August Kleinzahler, author of the award-winning Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, and orator Linda Greenhouse ’68, the …
Issue: May-June 2013
University People
… College Dean Designated Rose Lincoln/Harvard News Office Evelynn M. Hammonds Rosenkrantz professor of the history of science and of African and African …
Issue: May-June 2008
Lefty from Cincy
… As a boy growing up in the Queen City, Brent Suter ’12 had an idol: the Cincinnati … seasons with 630 home runs, and who is a lock for the Hall of Fame. Like Griffey, Suter graduated from Archbishop … wore when he played for the Seattle Mariners at the start of his career. Today, however, Suter looks to other role …
Issue: May-June 2011