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… 1913 The Alumni Bulletin welcomes the founding of the Harvard … appropriate [way to] powerfully advance the general cause of learning.” 1923 President Lowell’s refusal to let the …
Issue: January-February 2008
Bishop Redux
… Some writers have an uncanny way of becoming more prolific after their deaths than they ever were while living. Elizabeth … that he write his Ph.D. thesis on Bishop’s work: “To my surprise, because she never talked about her work, even with …
Issue: March-April 2011
Quiet, Please
… On a bright Monday afternoon, the fairy godmother of introverts—author Susan Cain, J.D. ’93, whose book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking caught fire …
Issue: March-April 2017
![The inscription below this bust of Vidyasagar quotes Rabindranath Tagore: “The chief glories of [his] character were neither his compassion nor his learning, but his invincible manliness and imperishable humanity.” The presence of a garland speaks to the reverence many still feel for the man.](https://www.harvardmagazine.com//sites/default/files/styles/topic_teaser/public/img/article/0414/mj14_page_051_01.jpg.webp?itok=Ex0t59hE "Photograph by Brian A. Hatcher")
Vita: Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar
… associated with British colonialism in India in the nineteenth century. The expansion of trade and government under the British East India Company … to legal practices and judicial systems, while the advent of Protestant missions occasioned vigorous debates about …
Issue: May-June 2014
Studying Self Injury
… even less is known about nonsuicidal self-injury. In the United States, an estimated 4 percent of adults and 21 percent of adolescents engage in such behavior; its incidence has …
Issue: January-February 2011
Yesterday's News
… 1920 The physical examination of all 700 Harvard freshmen, in connection with a new system of compulsory freshman athletics, has been completed, with …
ART Announces Architect for New Allston Theater
… In the wake of the February announcement of a $100-million … loved) feature of the new Everyman is the etched metal brises soleil on the facade featuring 105 full-length … just across the street from the ArtLab: the existing low-rise buildings and parking lot at 175 North Harvard Street , …
So Long for a Time
… years each class produces a reunion report in which members of the class may tell what they’ve been up to and what’s on … and selection the life that we take for granted has arisen. On the precarious top of which our collective …
Issue: January-February 2015
Yesterday's News
… 1914 Harvard spoils the dedication of the Yale Bowl by defeating the Elis, 36-0. … the punch. 1924 The Debating Union sponsors a discussion of the resolution "That Harvard is, and should continue to …
Issue: November-December 2004
Haitian Soccer Team Plays Crimson
… The national men's soccer team of Haiti will play the … is open to the public, are priced at $10. The match is part of a five-day benefit tour by the Haitian team, organized to …
Defying Limits
… adventure-writer David Roberts ’65 set out for a round of golf with Alex Honnold, the world’s foremost free-soloist. More than a generation … I could be, quote ‘world class.’ ” The club’s éminence grise, BradWashburn, urged a group to tackle the unclimbed …
Issue: January-February 2021
Yesterday’s News
… 1926 Thick ice on the Charles River has lasted a month longer than usual, … to hire men to cut a channel from Newell Boathouse to areas of the river with more open water. 1936 The article … Ago” reports that alumni in 1886 were informed not only of candidates’ qualifications but also of their opinions on …
Issue: March-April 2016
Karts Get Some Respect
… at Popular Science , is said to be a longtime expert on the way men entertain themselves when no one is telling them … bulrushes. Almost literally: The downhill chicane [a series of tight turns] leading onto the main straight at Oakland … That’s right, go-karts. Those things that Americans think of as Cushman-engine amusement-park rides, but that …
Issue: March-April 2006
From Physiology to Systems Biology
… biology shares with physiology, a much older discipline, the desire to study how whole biological systems work and … integrated. In the 1930s, Harvard Medical School (HMS) professor of physiology Walter Cannon coined the term “homeostasis” to …
Issue: November-December 2018
News Briefs
… Social Club Sanctions Citing their history of gender discrimination and negative … and too rigid relative to circumstances that might arise in each situation. Accordingly, where faculty members …
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Issue: July-August 2016