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Living History
… We create ourselves out of the stories we tell about our lives, stories that impose … I greeted the letter with some relief, with surprise — and at the same time with the eye of the historian …
Issue: May-June 2003
Yesterday's News
… From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine … From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine … 592 … …
Issue: March-April 2002
A Literary Garden
… width:407] Two English professors at Williams College, Bob and Ilona Bell— profiled in the July-August issue of this magazine —live amid an …
Parklands and Wastewater
… Wandering the hilly paths of Boston Harbor ’s Deer Island, breathing … That this stunning recreational space doubles as the home of the nation’s second-largest wastewater treatment plant …
Issue: May-June 2022
The Interim President’s Agenda
… president January 2 , when President Claudine Gay resigned. The shift in physical offices was trivial: a right turn, rather than a left in the … responsibilities. “We have experienced a series of crises,” Garber said. “But as so often with crises, there is …
Yesterday's News
… From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine … From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine … 1484 … …
Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2015
Yesterday's News
… From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine … From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine … 1868 … …
Advising
… I started advising first-year students in 1977, telling them mostly what I wished someone had told me when I was in … earlier. In the years since, I have counseled hundreds of young people at MIT, Tufts, and now Harvard. I have … of excitement and anxiety—no matter when in life they arise—are opportunities to grow beyond one’s imagination. …
Issue: January-February 2023
Guilt-Free Childbirth
… Amy Tuteur ’80, an obstetrician-turned-writer and mother of four, is the self-proclaimed “Enemy Number One of … or the manner in which she cares for her baby. Surprised? Unfortunately we live in a society where these …
Issue: July-August 2016
Dropping Nothing: Expanding Time
… In July I did the most un-Harvard of things: I dropped my summer-school … admitted defeat and let my class go. I have been quite surprised by the reactions I receive when I (admittedly) gloat …
Loot, Vinegar, Blisters
… note recently from John Altrocchi ’50, retired as a professor of behavioral sciences at the University of Nevada School of Medicine and as a …
Issue: May-June 2015
Money and Military Recruiting
… With a fiscal gun at the University’s head, Harvard Law School (HLS) has reversed … The armed services now have access to students through the Office of Career Services (OCS), rather than through informal …
Issue: November-December 2005
Matthew Wittmann
… Matthew Wittmann has three tattoos. Two mostly stay hidden: the … giraffe on his shoulder, which marked the 2012 publication of his two books on the American circus, and Paul Klee’s … on his arm after he finished his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 2010. Most visible is an inky star between …
Issue: November-December 2016
Chapter & Verse
… Dale Higbee hopes to learn the source of a comment by Archibald MacLeish: “We know all … we don’t know.” Alethea Black requests the title and author of a poem about how life would be if we grew younger over …
Issue: January-February 2006