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Stone Walls, a Closer Look
… New Englanders know them well: the iconic stone walls that border roads, fields, … Richard T.T. Forman has found out during recent years of serious trail-walking. He’s identified numerous types of these relics, explaining when, why, and how they were …
Issue: September-October 2023
Slightly Supernatural
… It wasn’t until after she moved into the haunted house that Laura van den Berg’s latest novel … Clare, a young widow who takes a trip to Havana in the wake of her husband’s sudden death and then begins to see him … and abstract but promisingly fertile: the strange pull of solitary travel, the power of tourism to reshape cultures …
Issue: September-October 2018
Fernando Zóbel de Ayala
… Having fled the Spanish Civil War as a boy and endured the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in his teens, Fernando Zóbel ’49 kept his … Commenting on one precious image—an anatomical study of a man’s shoulder and arm—Zóbel dryly told Graves, “There …
Issue: March-April 2009
Preserving a Muse
… The House of the Seven Gables, in Salem, Massachusetts, would not be the popular incarnation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 gothic tale of inherited sins …
Issue: May-June 2016
Clayton Christensen Questions Higher Education's Future
… Colleges and universities will need to change their business model in the near future if they’re to … tuition, facilities, and payroll costs, Cizik professor of business administration Clayton Christensen told the …
Why the Grad Student Union Election Is Still Contested
… in favor, more than 300 additional ballots—larger than the voting margin—remain under challenge. During the past month, officials from the University and the Harvard Graduate … at the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) Boston office to make their respective arguments about whether …
Global Alumni Fan
… The new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), Paul L. Choi ’86, J.D. … the international law firm Sidley Austin LLP, “we are part of this global network with an incredible diversity of …
Issue: September-October 2015
Supreme Court to Hear Affirmative Action Appeals
… it will hear Students for Fair Admissions’ (SFFA) appeal of its litigation opposing the consideration of race in Harvard’s undergraduate admissions process. In …
Behind the Scenes: Writing About COVID-19
… afternoon, February 21, 1:00 p.m. : a press release about the novel coronavirus arrives via email from the Medical … about the epidemic for several weeks, given the lack of good data. But Harvard’s announcement is straightforward: … develop strategies for fighting the novel coronavirus. I’m offered interviews, late in the afternoon and into the …
Reasoned Debate, Free Speech, and Service
… at Morning Prayers in Memorial Church this morning at the start of the new academic year, expressed concern about the … there will be many opportunities for our community to rise to the challenge of turning individual commentary into …
Painter, Anew
… every venerable institution— Harvard doctorate, Princeton professor emerita, Guggenheim fellowship, to name just a … herself, for whom a whirlwind press tour has followed the publication of her bracingly honest memoir, Old in Art School, this …
Issue: September-October 2018
Melissa Dell
… Economics professor Melissa Dell has studied everything from … she studies countries her discipline once ignored: “In the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, people in academic institutions … On a College internship in Peru, Dell worked on microfinance, making small loans to women selling snacks on the …
Issue: July-August 2020
History Is Where the Future Begins
… In May, thousands of members of the University community gathered in Tercentenary Theatre to take part in Commencement …
Issue: July-August 2012
“Our American History”
… Art dealer Judy Goffman Cutler began collecting American illustrations in the early 1970s with a few pen-and-ink drawings by Charles … to be transferred from original fine art. Meanwhile, the rise of railroads allowed products and periodicals to become …
Issue: July-August 2015
Princeton Records Strong Endowment Investment Gains
… endowment investments had realized a 14.7 percent return in the fiscal year 2010 ended June 30. Among the universities … a 14.3 percent gain from the $12.6 billion value at the end of fiscal 2009—likely the strongest absolute growth among … institutions with similar investment portfolios. In a show of financial strength during fiscal 2009, Princeton was able …