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Alumni Sing Out
… The newly formed Jameson Singers, a Boston-area choral group of 52 members—47 of them alumni (39 of the College, 8 of the graduate …
Issue: May-June 2011
The Undergraduate: “...On to Plan B”
… I cannot remember the exact moment when I decided it was my dream to be a … the uninitiated, Winning London follows the classic model of the Mary-Kate and Ashley travel film. Two sisters, who … visit to significant sights—Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, St. Paul’s Cathedral—to do so. In the meantime, …
Issue: November-December 2013
Behind the Scenes: Observing Subjects in Their Environments
… one of the best parts about being a journalist is that you get to watch interesting people in their element. Whether it’s (literally) riding along with … a reversible sentence, reporting means observing (and often participating in) your interview subject’s biggest …
News Briefs
… Allston Ambitions Even as work proceeds toward construction of the first commercial buildings in Harvard’s 14-acre “enterprise research campus” (ERC) along Western Avenue in Allston, …
Issue: May-June 2021
Grand Adventures
… Sallick visited a horse farm, an olive-oil factory, and the museums of Florence—all with their grandchildren. “If their parents … Koenig says, but in recent years she has seen a sharp rise in the number of grandfathers who come along, too. “Men …
Issue: July-August 2006
Animal-Free Dining
… On a recent Saturday night, the Walnut Grille, in Newton Highlands, was buzzing. A young couple tucked into a dish of finger-lickin’ chipotle soy fingers. Nearby, old friends … in a church basement in the 1980s and has seen a steady rise in membership and attendance at its events, including …
Issue: March-April 2017
The Radcliffe Campaign Launches
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, founded in 1999, launched The Radcliffe Campaign, its part of the University’s new capital campaign, with events in … of the creative arts in the midst of an academic enterprise. The artists are always the most popular …
Vita: Thomas Nuttall
… Nuttall found a common greenbrier, a plant new to him. The apprentice printer and aspiring naturalist took it to Benjamin Smith Barton of the University of Pennsylvania, who—struck by this fervor for botany—became …
Issue: May-June 2015
“Kingmaker” to Gatekeeper
… Professor of English Stephanie Burt ’94 is the kind of poetry critic who provokes anger in other poetry critics. Called a “kingmaker” by The New York …
Issue: November-December 2017
Performing for the President
… evening an “Arts Prelude” to President Claudine Gay’s official installation shook Sanders Theatre with a whirlwind of energetic, and sometimes … To dance in a light she never got to [slower] I meet my surprised face glinting back through industrial windows A memory …
College Cash
… to go to Harvard. She knows she needs top grades, plenty of extracurricular activities, and, of course, the test scores. Her parents, Scott and Rachel, know that …
Issue: November-December 2001
Andrew Craigie
… After serving as the first Apothecary General of the Continental Army during … Returning to his native Massachusetts, he purchased one of the most elegant homes in Cambridge, built the bridge …
Issue: November-December 2011
Harkness and History
… education have long overlapped, collided, and shaped each other at Harvard. Harry Lewis owns a large collection of Harvard course catalogs, and he can show how, in the … everyman’s club, and could counteract this anonymity. The rise of college athletics in the latter part of the …
Issue: November-December 2013
Extracurriculars
… content/norton-lectures Sanders Theatre February 3, 12, and 27, at 4 p.m. The 2014 Norton Lectures present “The Ethics of Jazz,” by Herbie Hancock. (For details, tickets, and … Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman discusses the rise of urban populations, revolts, and “The Politics of …
Issue: January-February 2014
Don Share
… Lincoln Across from Don Share's desk hangs a photograph of Robert Lowell '37, Litt.D. '66, the poet Share unabashedly identifies as "My hero. Lowell … and somehow work it all together." As the new curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room (now part of Houghton Library, …
Issue: September-October 2001