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Yesterday’s News
… 1930 The Peabody Museum has sponsored two summer expeditions: the first will make a thorough archaeological survey of a large portion of Utah; the second will continue archaeological …
Issue: July-August 2015
No Easy Answers
… Hundreds of listeners tuned in Thursday evening for an online Harvard-community discussion, led by Bass professor of government Michael Sandel, on the ethical, social, and political questions provoked by the …
Yesterday’s News
… 1910 Thanks to the local construction company building the Cambridge portion of the new subway system, several thousand carts of earth are secured to fill in the lower part of Soldiers …
Issue: September-October 2015
“Authentic” Versus “Constrained” Choices in the Classroom
… A professor in an introductory science course discovers that some students are falling behind in their work, apparently because they haven’t bought the … textbooks for the term, and providing it. Related issues arise, too: supporting students’ travel from home to campus …
Toward Democracy in America
… In the age of Twitter , when stabs at wisdom can appear in 140 … book dedicated to a vitally important concept. Let there be no doubt: Toward Democracy makes a major … by polarization and extremism, we need a reminder of why we value it in the first place. That is precisely …
Issue: November-December 2016
Dazzlers
… The English essayist and critic William Hazlitt gazed on the white marble sculptures of antiquity and thought them cold. “[T]he finest statue in … health or life or motion, accords admirably with the repose of the tomb.” He should get a look at this. “I knew, of …
Issue: November-December 2007
Vita: John Muir
… As the first great nature writer of the American West, a … baptism”: Heavens, what an honor for a tramp & how it surprises & excites me.…From the very beginning of my studies it …
Issue: November-December 2014
Henry Knowles Beecher
… Henry K. Beecher , M.D. ’32, for decades Dorr professor of research and teaching in anaesthetics and anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School (HMS), …
Issue: March-April 2017
Football 2023: Harvard 48-Howard 7
… In football parlance, a “chunk play” is one in which the offense gains a chunk of yardage—at least 15 yards rushing or 20 passing. On …
Making Space
… There were two ways that Junko Yamamoto, M.Arch. ’17, could … create similar moments in other places, building structures of twigs, leaves, and rocks, then watching the sunlight … “Naïve Material Gradation,” she made 400 sheets of bioplastic (derived from biological, biodegradable …
Issue: March-April 2024
Large Successes
… tapa might suffice at lunch, perhaps partnered by a glass of Di Lenardo Pinot Grigio ’06 ($7) and consumed outdoors on the terrace on a soft afternoon. Consider choosing the New Bedford seared …
Issue: July-August 2008
Yesterday’s News
… 1920 The Faculty of Arts and Sciences accepts recommendations from the Committee on Admission that make it easier to admit … who might have been barred “by…merely technical defects of school and examination records.” 1935 Signs of spring: …
Issue: March-April 2015
Vita: Joseph T. Walker
… In 1934, chemist Joseph T. Walker, Ph.D. ’33, took on the task of creating a crime-detection laboratory for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Using science in crime detection wasn’t …
Issue: November-December 2015
A Woodsplint Basket
… Displayed in the "Hall of the North American Indian" at Harvard … designs cut from a potato or the top of a cork. The surprise is inside. Firmly pasted to the inner contours of the … knocking loudly on the wooden gate, and calling out: 'Arise, ye dead, and come to judgment.' Slowly from one of the …
Issue: March-April 2002
Vita: Felipe Poey
… In a drawer in Harvard’s Museum of Natural History lies a skeleton of Lachnolaimus maximus , the hogfish, its delicate bones wrapped in a yellowed, …
Issue: July-August 2014