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Summer in the City
… Make way for poults. Visitors to Harvard Yard—and these days, there are throngs of them—often wish to capture an iconic photo: Johnston Gate; the …
Issue: September-October 2019
What Birds’ Nests Tell Us
… Glossy shells of the Tinamidae in Easter egg bluish-aqua hues; the fluffy indulgence of a feathered Brant’s nest; great auk shells with their …
Issue: March-April 2023
Back Bay Delights
… that belies a wildly enthusiastic reaction to its food. The large space is clad in shades of dove gray and walnut brown, with nearly floor-to-ceiling … onto Massachusetts Avenue, not far from the Harvard Club of Boston. Chandeliers and table candles make the plethora …
Issue: March-April 2011
Admissions, through the Ages
… Eight years out of Yale—after stints as a U.S. Marine platoon leader and a teacher—Dwight D. Miller joined the Harvard College admissions office in July 1967. That was before the merger with …
Issue: September-October 2019
Rhetoric and Law
… his chambers with icons. In one corner are photographs of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Judge Henry Friendly. In the opposite corner is one of Justice Benjamin Cardozo. In … legal reformer—basically, a heretic. It’s no surprise that moral philosophers like the late Ronald Dworkin …
Issue: January-February 2016
Harvard Business School Building Boom Continues
… The cranes keep coming. Harvard Business School (HBS) dean … Chao and Family Foundation will support replacement of Kresge Hall with a new executive-education facility ($35 … a New York-based shipping, trading, and finance enterprise. He and his late wife had six daughters (listed by …
Fracking’s Deadly Toll
… During the past two decades, U.S. oil and gas production has soared … the United States has been the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas. America’s booming oil and natural … gas. Today, the United States is Europe’s largest supplier of natural gas and is helping millions of Europeans keep the …
Issue: July-August 2022
Funniest Pages
… Contrary to the romanticized image of a solitary artist forging … in his introduction. “It had the feel of a rogue enterprise, and the competition to top each other was fierce. You …
Issue: November-December 2010
Off the Shelf
… Siegel, Ph.D. ’21, JF (Princeton, $65). A Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows performs the incredibly useful service of opening … Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires, by David Chaffetz ’76 (W.W. Norton, …
Issue: July-August 2024
Cross-country by Ski
… Growing up west of Boston, Chris City ’94 began Nordic skiing as a child, … criss-crossing his own backyard, later gliding through the town forest, along ungroomed trails, to a nearby lake. … and elsewhere have contributed to the “slow and steady” rise in popularity of cross-country/Nordic skiing in New …
Issue: November-December 2013
Self-Binding
… At the end of World War II, the United States found itself in a … relative to other powers; challengers were sure to arise. Equally important, decision-makers did not believe … steadily declined. Levels of trade have correspondingly risen. Some dispute whether the GATT and now the World Trade …
Issue: September-October 2004
The Low End Theory
… In 2013 , a manifesto entitled The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study began making the rounds among the growing pool of nervous graduate students, harried adjuncts, un-tenured … Frazier, and Joe Louis to get us in.” Moten’s first surprise at Harvard was encountering a certain kind of black …
Issue: January-February 2018
Vita: Lafayette
… Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, was the wealthy French nobleman who volunteered at 19 to fight … in George Washington’s army, was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine, and became a living symbol of the Franco-American alliance that defeated Great Britain …
Issue: March-April 2015
Mastering the “Hidden Curriculum”
… choosing a gift from a bridal registry for a friend. “What the hell is a bridal registry?” she wondered. As she tried … sounded more like mini-colleges, with library buildings of their own and sophisticated electives” and AP courses … 6 percent to 17 percent). It hosts the Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America summer institute for promising …
Issue: November-December 2017
Amending Advising
… Harvard undergraduates remain dissatisfied with the quality of academic advising they receive in their … During the past four years, the number of concentrators has risen by as much as one half (the current total is around …
Issue: March-April 2002