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Quincy Jones and Harvard
… LARGELY MISSED in the rush of encomia to beloved musician Quincy Jones, who recently died at the age of 91, were his multiple Harvard connections. He received an …
In a Farmer’s Long Beard
… Scholars too infrequently tell lay readers the human passions, as opposed to the intellectual itches, … that fuel their interests. In Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature (New York University Press, … and translator Miriam Udel ’98, Ph.D. ’08, associate professor of Yiddish language, literature, and culture in …
Issue: November-December 2020
Crimson Coincidence
… Wright's historic first flight lasted just 12 seconds. The Wright Flyer traveled 120 feet, a skip across the sand … on December 17, 1903, eventually improving to a distance of 852 feet and a time of 59 seconds. Yet on the last flight, with Wilbur at the …
Issue: May-June 2003
Brevia
… The Common Spaces The common spaces steering … committee—chartered by President Drew Faust in the spring of 2008 to explore opportunities to enhance social life and … Campus" ), including the possible physical reconfiguration of existing spaces near the Science Center, Holyoke Center, …
Issue: November-December 2009
Theater As If It Matters
… York City and enrolled in a two-year training program at The New Actors Workshop. It’s a prestigious program: … later, she realized her dream, becoming artistic director of the repertory company that Brustein, professor of English emeritus, founded at Yale and brought to …
Issue: November-December 2009
A Scientific Instrument
… Harvard Medical School, in an historic expansion rivaling the construction of its original white marble quadrangle a century ago, … a waterfall. To the north of the east-west central corridor rises the 10-story research building, packed with the tools …
Issue: November-December 2003
Rare Titan Arum About to Bloom at Harvard for the First Time
… A rare titan arum ( Amorphophallus titanum ), housed in the greenhouse used by Harvard’s department of organismic and evolutionary biology , is set to bloom in … "corpse plant," due to its fetid odor, which resembles that of decomposing meat. Although in full bloom it appears as an …
Campuses’ Cultures
… American colleges and universities are often seen as islands of political correctness, wallowing in self-indulgent identity politics. They are riven by racial and ethnic tension, and seemingly … few informants had any idea of what the liberal arts comprise—nor any sense that they are engaged in liberal-arts …
Issue: May-June 2019
Yesterday’s News
… 1911 Witter Bynner 02 writes the Bulletin to protest Harvards refusal to allow Emmeline … women, and sexless persons in female garb, the supporters of the fad of equal suffrage are few. 1926 Answering the question …
Issue: November-December 2006
Do You Believe in Magic?
… a magic trick. A Pittsburgh native, he’s here to oversee the installation of four of his pieces at the Melissa Morgan Fine Art gallery. The …
Issue: March-April 2023
Musician esperanza spalding Departs Harvard
… F ive-time Grammy Award winner and professor of practice in the Music Department, esperanza spalding (who …
Documentary Styles
… eye for shifts in mood and a proclivity for name-dropping the film theorist Walter Benjamin. We bandied words like … “juxtaposition” and “interiority,” belabored skepticism of documentary’s “objectivity,” and referred to every … own footage was shaky, our two-minute sound excerpts full of microphone noises and rustling. Each week we’d watch …
Issue: July-August 2019
Class-Scheduling Conundrums
… With regulatory approval in hand for the Allston facility that will house much of its engineering and applied sciences teaching and … industry partnerships, and an associated large “enterprise research campus” envisioned as housing businesses, …
Barbara Lawrence
… When a forest fire broke out on the Wyoming dude ranch where Barbara Lawrence was working as … on natural-history collecting expeditions for the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) in the 1930s, first in the Mojave Desert and then in the jungles of Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, “Although I set traps …
Issue: January-February 2025
William Brewster
… days tramping through woods, fields, and marshes in search of birds near his family home, a small estate on Brattle Street in Cambridge. He became an earnest observer of birds and their habits when he was about 10, beginning the careful …
Issue: November-December 2007