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A Lifetime with Bach
… For some music lovers, it may be a relief when the 250th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach passes on July 28. Though he has …
Greetings from Elmwood
… This is the first of my letters written from home. Right now, Adele … in higher education, I have had to deal with my share of crises, but none of them compares to the scope and scale of …
Issue: May-June 2020
Cruel and Unjust
… his Gettysburg Address, it should be shocking that the United States has locked up almost a quarter of the prisoners in the world despite having less than 5 … housing, custody of their kids.” And: “It should not surprise anyone that detention itself causes crime.” In “the …
Issue: March-April 2025
Early BMOCs
… For the casual art lover, early American painting begins with John Singleton Copley’s portrait of Paul Revere. But as Theodore E. Stebbins Jr.—curator of American art emeritus at the Harvard Art Museums—points …
Issue: March-April 2015
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/arts 617-495-8676 • April 28 through May 1 The College’s annual Arts First Festival hosts events … examines a warrior’s reaction to violence and the trauma of war. • Through March 25 Prometheus Bound. A new …
Issue: March-April 2011
Comedy Compulsion
… Nell Scovell ’82 went wherever they’d let her be funny. Her early writing career can be seen as a progression of bigger, freer venues where the bosses would let her crack wise: first the sports sections of The Harvard Crimson and The Boston Globe , then the …
Issue: March-April 2018
Fixing Foreign Policy
… This essay is adapted from the 2005-2006 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture, delivered on April 24 under the sponsorship of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Can American … Hersh of the New Yorker broke the Abu Ghraib scandal. James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times revealed that …
Issue: July-August 2006
Digital Kids
… A front-page article in today's Boston Globe looks into the use of digital media by very young children, those aged under six years. One cited study reports that 6 percent of children aged two to five years have their own …
Harvard’s Lowered Voice
… In late May , when Harvard adopted the recommendation of its Institutional Voice Working Group … Student organizations, the source of much of last year’s crises, “are subject to the policies of the schools at which …
The Couple Who Lit Up “Lawn on D”
… On weekend nights in summer, hundreds of Bostonians descend upon “Lawn on D,” a small park on South Boston’s D Street. They can be seen playing board games, enjoying a beer, … or just relaxing with friends and family. But most of them are waiting for a turn to sit on one of the park’s …
My Favorite Things
… There is something to love about every season at Harvard, … Watching eager students crisscross the Yard in swirls of leaves to get to a new class, hearing from faculty about … walking into Massachusetts Hall to escape the chill of early morning and learning about an exciting advance soon …
Issue: November-December 2014
Darren Higgins
… Remember the couple of hot dogs in your fridge that you appear to think are immortal? As the dogs lurk there for week after week, precooked and … pathogen can and does kill people at risk, although most of us toss off a touch of listeriosis with a bellyache, et …
Issue: March-April 2006
Palfrey to Leave Harvard Law School
… John G. Palfrey VII ’94, J.D. ’01, who heads the Harvard Law School (HLS) library and serves as a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, will leave to become head of school at Phillips Academy, Andover, starting July 1. …
Party Like It’s the CCCLXXVth—and Many Lustra More
… In the November-December 1986 Harvard Magazine , devoted to coverage of the University’s gala 350th anniversary celebration that … in 1978 we consulted a classicist—Mason Hammond ’25, caller of academic processions at both the 1936 and 1986 …
Issue: September-October 2011
At Home with Harvard: Women in Sports
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about climate … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …