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Factory Fans
… The rich industrial history of New England is part of our collective national experience, but rarely grabs our … had been primarily a small-scale domestic activity, but now machines could transform bales of cotton into finished yarn. …
Issue: September-October 2010
Vistas of Perfection
… B-41 in George Smith Hall, a building that is now part of Kirkland House. Decades later, after Agee had become a … great books, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and A Death in the Family --his roommate, Robert Saudek, remembered what it … stranger than before. Saudek might have been even more surprised if he had known exactly where his roommate had …
Issue: May-June 2009
Labs, Size Large
… The northwest science building houses the Center for Brain … and (coming soon) entire collections from the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). But the impressive façade, … staircase that connects the first floor to those above and rises from landing to landing without support pillars in …
Issue: November-December 2008
Minding the Gap
… Four days before last Christmas, the $300-billion California Public Employees’ Retirement … plan, announced that it would reduce the expected rate of return on its investments from 7.5 percent to 7 percent. … not small: the state expects its direct pension costs to rise 40 percent, or $2 billion, annually, and plan sponsors …
Issue: May-June 2017
Industrial Lives
… Professor Donald Davenport of the Harvard Business School hoped to teach the incipient … them, from 115 companies. These images of men, women, and machines are today among more than 20,000 photographs at the …
Issue: January-February 2007
The Chinese in America
… In the fall of 2016, writes Michael Luo ’98, “I was standing in the rain with my family and some friends, in front of a restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper East Side,” when a … history of earlier, often dismaying, confrontations and crises could not be more important. From the introduction, …
Issue: May-June 2025
The Education of a Harvard Lawyer
… In the photograph here, taken on an overcast morning in the fall of 1956, you see the smartest Harvard Law School students in … summer internship positions. And—what a wonderful surprise!—some of them invited me to interview. So much for the …
Issue: January-February 2021
True Lies
… Only the ampersand is still visible; Benjamin Franklin’s thick … Thomas Jefferson, having finished tinkering with his draft of the declaration, asked Franklin to review it. The elder … later the first federal immigration laws revealed how the rise of nativism constricted the notion of political …
Issue: September-October 2018
The $3-Billion University
… Harvard came within an eyelash of crossing the $3-billion threshold in annual revenues and expenses for … the Corporation. In the current fiscal year, those figures rise to 5 percent and 6 percent respectively, followed by 5 …
Issue: January-February 2007
The Era of Inequality
… Timothy Noah ’80, then of Slate (and now at The New Republic ), set out to document and understand a new, and unsettling, state of affairs that has finally attracted wide attention—in part …
Issue: May-June 2012
The Oz of Health Insurance Reform
… The man to whom the Obama administration turned to run the … reform—including the insurance mandate now at the center of a Supreme Court maelstrom—is Jonathan Gruber , Ph.D. ’92, a professor of economics at MIT. A profile of Gruber , whose …
Refining the Allston Master Plan
… A year ago , Harvard filed three sets of plans for building in Allston with the City of Boston: a master plan for the new Allston … one factor that determines how fast an Allston campus will rise. Demand will be another. As Gordon puts it: “When do …
Issue: January-February 2008
Family Newsletters of Holidays Past
… On Christmas Day 1948, 28-year-old Marie Harris took to the typewriter in her family’s Shedd, Oregon, farmhouse and … moved three times and had three children in the span of several years, she felt there was “much too much news” … Her first Harris Herald was a three-page update full of the quotidian in all its sweetness: their house had green …
Issue: November-December 2021
“Beauty Will Save the World”
… In the flurry of special talks, community celebrations, and previews building up to the Harvard Art Museums ’ official reopening on November 16, commentators have …
The Society of St. John the Evangelist
… The Society of St. John the Evangelist , a small monastic community of the Episcopal Church, has two locations with open chapels …
Issue: January-February 2012