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… two freshmen propose inserting a huge crossbar between the two chimneys of the Boston Elevated Railway’s powerhouse, near the … Central Kitchen has installed automatic milk-pouring machines in four House dining halls, the Bulletin’ s …
Issue: January-February 2021
The Abode of the Message
… The Abode of the Message is a Sufi retreat center located just over the … South Family Shaker Village, The Abode is now a community of the Sufi Order International. Many original structures …
Issue: January-February 2012
A Cluster of (Scholarly) Stars
… The Radcliffe Institute, spreading its wings as a center for … with a major research university, is extending the reach of its fellowship program literally to the edge of the … concerns of the physicists and cosmologists might give rise to a new academic locus for common work on campus. But …
Issue: November-December 2002
The Arts: More Than Diversion
… A former harvard president once told me, “The arts may be a nice diversion, but they’re just not that … with which I naturally take issue, numerous alumni have risen to prominence in the arts, media, and in … for greatness in their chosen paths, whether because of, or in spite of, what the University offers them as …
Issue: September-October 2011
The Student Commencement Speakers
… The 372nd Commencement exercises on Thursday, May 25, will … taught science and math. From his aptly-named hometown of Athens, Georgia, Meadows improved his Latin, winning … exactly how they function: “I think they’re really nifty machines that can do amazing chemistry." When Chou applied …
Crimson Queens of the Rink
… The women’s hockey team ended January with a perfect 14-0 … have consistently frosted their opponents with devasting offensive flurries and a defense that has allowed just 0.83 … sole loss came against the UNH Wildcats, alma mater of veteran Crimson head coach Katey Stone, on December 14. …
Issue: March-April 2008
Portrait of the Artist as a Director
… The prototype of the silver-spoon baby, Paul Joseph Sachs was born in November 1878 in New York City, the eldest son of Samuel Sachs (a partner in the international banking firm …
Issue: September-October 2002
The Harvard Medalists of 2015
… Moose, Ph.D. ’68, and Robert D. Reischauer ’63—received the 2015 Harvard Medal for “extraordinary service to the … Alumni Association’s (HAA) annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. President Drew Faust read the citations, printed in italics below. The 2012 recipient of the HAA’s David T.W. McCord ’21 Lifetime Achievement …
Survival of the Cooperative
… Paddling around the forested edges of a crocodile-infested lake in Panama, … insights into the bizarre cooperative breeding behaviors of certain tropical cuckoos. These greater anis ( Crotophaga …
Issue: January-February 2013
"The Doctor's Song"
… During the past several weeks, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept … Rafael Campo has been writing poems to help make sense of the crisis. Below is a draft of one still in process, but … agreed to share. THE DOCTOR’S SONG The ventilator’s rise and fall. The ambulance’s siren call. The yellow gown’s …
The Upward Mobility Problem
… and now I’m shifting a ten-speed,” says Gary Jones with the sort of smile you hear before you see it. From eight in the … of Americans attending four-year college continues to rise—and yet, countries such as Finland and Denmark send …
Issue: May-June 2022
The Future of Food
… A glimpse of the future of food can be seen through the eyes of Andrew Ive, M.B.A. ’97. He is managing director …
Issue: March-April 2018
The Story of Teach For America
… if progress was made against poverty. Wendy Kopp thought there was another way to make a difference. She began recruiting graduates of top universities to serve as teachers in the toughest … have taught as corps members—a number that will surely rise again with dozens more expected to join after they …
The Best of Bestowing
… Along with festive food and family gatherings, the holidays bring the inevitable social rituals of gift-giving. Some enjoy the art of finding or making the … known. And even for close friends and family, the question arises: What is a suitable, meaningful gift? Quickly followed …
Issue: November-December 2012
Technology, Paternity, Patriarchy
… “All the decisions we make in our most intimate lives…about who … by technology,” contends Debora Spar. A Baker Foundation professor at Harvard Business School, Spar was president of … the creation of marriage at the dawn of agriculture, to the rise of feminism in the twentieth century, to the legal …
Issue: March-April 2019