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Le Professeur
… September 14, 2015: Buttenwieser University Professor emeritus Stanley Hoffmann, a renowned scholar of … and European politics who spent his early teens hiding from the Gestapo in Vichy France, died in Cambridge on September … what to do—it doesn’t work. And it only got worse with the rise of the neocons. “The French, for example, get terribly …
Issue: July-August 2007
Yesterday's News
… 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
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
Dumebi Menakaya Shoots Secrecy
… Nzuzo I initially appears as a reflection, but it’s not. In the photograph, two women with short, curly hair and long … on the other’s arm as if to steady herself. The focal point of the picture—the space where the women’s faces lie—is … found out how much she’d taught herself, they were surprised. They didn’t understand how she shot without a light …
Issue: March-April 2023
Elevating Climate Issues
… In early September, as students were settling into their fall classes, the University announced the creation of a new post, vice provost for climate and sustainability, … we’re seeing floods,” he said. “We’ll see sea level rise, we’ll see more heat events”—from global warming that …
Issue: November-December 2021
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
Recenter Yourself in the Square
… September usually brings with it the promise of a fresh start as students return to school. Of course, this year is unlike any other due to COVID-19. …
Issue: September-October 2020
It’s Complicated
… cultural historian Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz , professor emerita at Smith College, told a packed auditorium at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on April 23. Horowitz’s lecture, part of the University’s 375 th anniversary celebration , …
American Studies
… No, the ship of state isn’t sinking. Louise Greep Hogan ’57, Ed.M. ’61, of Shelburne, Vermont, sent in this photo of herself taken … has indeed been a lifeline for many.” Getting ’em while they’re young (HBS division). Richard Palmer, A.M. ’88, …
Issue: January-February 2018
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
Engaging Radcliffe with the World
… For Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Paul professor of constitutional law and professor of history, spending a … conducting research as a Radcliffe Institute fellow during the academic year 2016-2017, when she was newly arrived at …
Issue: January-February 2019
![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
Noir Romantic
… ” says poet April Bernard ’78, with a full-throated laugh. Then she explains: “ Noir is romanticism embittered. The life of feeling that has been betrayed leads to the attitude and genre of noir. No one who loves noir is a cynic--cynics never …
Issue: November-December 2010
Why Whales?
… Among the environmental-protection and natural-resources laws … species that have no known economic constituency (often, indeed, creatures no one has even heard of before), conservation doesn’t count for much. Joe Roman …
Issue: May-June 2011
Harvard Alumni Honored for Outstanding Service
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards, which recognize … were to be conferred on six winners during the HAA board of directors’ meeting in October. Stephen W. Baird ’74, of Chicago, is director and vice president of the Harvard …
Issue: November-December 2013