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Spring Sampler
… Photographs by Jim Harrison unless otherwise indicated. Objects © President and Fellows of Harvard College Here begins an excursion through Harvard collections in search of evidence of the vernal equinox. The first sign is found …
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Issue: March-April 2002
In Beijing, President Bacow Affirms Academic Freedom
… an address last night at Peking University titled “The Pursuit of Truth and the Mission of the University.” His visit comes … were favorable to Japan and unfavorable to China. It gave rise to a broad-based, national student union; ties to …
Caleb Strong
… In January 1745 , Caleb and Phebe Lyman Strong, of Northampton, Massachusetts, brought their only son for baptism to their pastor, Jonathan … For the baby, Edwards’s touch symbolized transmission of a legacy of rectitude and humility. The boy, descended …
Issue: March-April 2016
Yesterday’s News
… 1906 The Newsboys Union of Boston raises $2,567.17 toward a … newsboys to Harvard. 1931 President Conant decides that the football team shall play a postseason game, the receipts of which will go to unemployment relief. 1941 The Harvard …
Issue: September-October 2016
Corporation Expansion
… Paul J. Finnegan ’75, M.B.A. ’82, has been elected a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation , the senior governing board, … May 2011. (He will relinquish his current seat on the Board of Overseers , the junior governing board.) Finnegan, a past …
Issue: July-August 2012
Doing Community Medicine
… A few years ago, instructor of medicine Pieter Cohen, a primary-care physician at the Harvard-affiliated Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), … produced similarly high-impact studies addressing the steep rise in emergency-room wait times, the distribution of free …
Issue: September-October 2008
Yesterday's News
… Noting a trend among American universities toward improving the quality of student dormitories, the editors remark, "The average … "the superiority of Americanism and free enterprise." 1957 The College extends upperclassmen's …
Issue: January-February 2002
The Undergraduate: Outsmarting Our Smartphones
… One sketch from the pilot episode of Portlandia , Carrie Brownstein and Fred … eclectic homage to the niche (read: hipster) culture of Portland, Oregon, has always resonated with me. …
Issue: May-June 2015
Found in Translation
… Turkey has seen no shortage of political upheaval and cultural shifts in the 70 years since Sabahattin Ali first published Madonna in a Fur Coat, a story of doomed love in 1930s Berlin, reflected through the …
Issue: November-December 2017
Placekicking: A Brief History
… football used a round ball that players would hold in their hands, drop to the ground, and kick on a low bounce. With the advent of the forward pass, the ball took on its current elliptical … the drop kick gave way to placekicking, with tees (for kickoffs) and holders (for field goals and extra points). For …
Issue: September-October 2012
Air Afghanistan
… In many ways, Afghanistan’s outlook is grim. The war with the Taliban drags into its tenth year, and is merely the latest episode of what can sometimes seem like a history of war interrupted by anomalous intervals of peace. To many …
Issue: March-April 2011
Yesterday's News
… 1928 Massachusetts reports an over-supply of trained teachers. Referring to this "interesting condition of affairs," the editors note, "This seems to show one thing—that …
Issue: January-February 2003
Installation Academics
… The half-dozen academic symposiums convened this morning as … as Harvard’s thirtieth president covered a broad spectrum of disciplines, knit together by a pair of common themes. In … and health (from the laboratory to practice and new enterprises); revitalizing democracy; and the future of the …
Democrats, Republicans, and Zero-Sum Thinking
… mindset is increasingly shaped by “zero-sum” views of policy and society: the belief that gains achieved by one individual or group come at the expense of another. If the resources available are fixed in supply, …
Harvard Baccalaureate 2016: Tell “Your Own Story”
… “You are the class of Snapchat,” President Drew Faust told the graduating seniors of 2016 in her May 24 Baccalaureate address, referring to …