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Getting Close, in Selma
… Drew Gilpin Faust , then dean of the Radcliffe Institute, turned her historian’s … Americans, King declared, “are involved in the sorrow that rises from Selma to contaminate every crevice of our …
Issue: September-October 2023
Bare-Knuckle Politics
… In the wake of a contentious U.S. election, faculty members of two Harvard professional schools have published on the nation’s democratic origins and traditions (see also “ A …
Issue: January-February 2017
Analysis: Pedagogy, Practice, and Teaching Innovation at Harvard
… By chance, the Boston Globe on October 16 ran comments by President Faust and her three predecessors on the occasion of Harvard’s 375th anniversary, looking ahead to its 400th. … attention. Tuning Up Teaching. That discrepancy has given rise to the impression that undergraduate teaching, in …
“Going Through the Fire”
… in just his sixth game as Harvard’s coach, Tommy Amaker and the men’s basketball team faced off against Providence College, a traditional power from the … East Conference. The matchup provided an early barometer of whether the Crimson could fulfill Amaker’s vision of …
The Harvard Context: Football Coach Tim Murphy as a Leader and Coach
… This is the eleventh post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background …
Harvard Headlines: Fifteen Economists Publish Plan to Regulate the Financial System
… The Squam Lake Report (Princeton), a book-length set of recommendations for reform of financial regulation, was published today by 15 …
William Henry Lewis
… During a football game in 1904, William Clarence Matthews , the sole African-American player on the Harvard … suggested William Henry Lewis, LL.B. 1895, a member of the coaching staff from 1895 to 1906. “He’s too light,” … like that. He, if anyone, knew about prejudice on and off the field: he was probably the only African-American …
Issue: November-December 2005
"More News to Come..."
… John James Audubon described the stentorian voice of the ivory-billed woodpecker in his Ornithological Biography, prose descriptions of the birds depicted in The Birds of America (1827-1838): …
Issue: July-August 2005
Sestinas from the Clinic
… Campo writes clear, inviting, open-hearted poems about the most difficult, most troubling, and—for readers unused to them—most private and least traditional of subjects. He is an associate professor of medicine at … with serious illness, especially HIV and AIDS. That enterprise informs all his six books of verse, but in his latest, …
Issue: January-February 2014
Shaping the Cancer Genome
… In a paper published last week in the journal Cell , researchers at Harvard Medical School … chaos, the scientists—led by Stephen Elledge , Mendel professor of genetics and of medicine—found consistent patterns of …
Harvard-Yale Boat Race Turns 150
… The sesquicentennial of college athletics in America takes place June 8 on the Thames (rhymes with "James") River in New London, … boat Oneida won the first race, about four lengths ahead of the Shawmut, the faster of two Yale entries. Last year's …
Issue: May-June 2002
John Mugane
… Hired in 2003 to build the capacity of Harvard’s African languages program (last spring it offered 21 of them, more than any other university in the …
Issue: November-December 2009
Desire and Design
… Wendy Lesser ’73, the founding editor of The Threepenny Review and a critic of unusual scope (witness recent books on reading and on …
Issue: March-April 2017
Hip-Hop Art and French Innovators
… The Museum of Fine Arts reopened for in-person visits this … its 150 th anniversary with three distinct shows. The major exhibition, “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the … like Keith Haring, Lady Pink, and Fab 5 Freddy ( Return of God to Africa, 1984, below). All reflect a …
Issue: November-December 2020
Cambridge 02138
… working to reduce incarceration, I was thrilled to see the profile of Bruce Western’s work on the deep injustices wrought … 50 states plus the federal government. I was somewhat surprised, however, that an academician like Bruce Western would …
Issue: May-June 2013