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Marshall Ganz
… Few who drop out of college for 27 years later return to join the Harvard faculty. But Marshall Ganz ’64, M.P.A. ’93, … he recalls. “They were fruitful years that ended with a lot of hurt. A tragic story of success consuming itself. ” The …
Issue: November-December 2010
Yesterday's News
… 1932 Guided by meteorologists’ advice to find a spot in the lee of a large lake—to avoid the cumulus clouds typical of New England August afternoons—the 17-member Harvard …
Issue: July-August 2017
On Human Reproduction
… Ellison's On Fertile Ground is a truly extraordinary, state-of-the-art book on a topic that concerns all human beings as individuals and a host of others professionally. So many superlatives may seem …
African and African-American Studies Celebrates 50 Years
… Last Saturday evening , toward the end of a two-day symposium commemorating the fiftieth … keynote address articulating a similar contradiction. “The rise of right-wing populist nationalism, naked white …
Boston Fire Museum
… In 1891, firefighters at the Congress Street station house typically worked nine days straight, then got a day off to “go home and get a change of clothes and more food,” says William Warnock, director of …
Issue: September-October 2016
Education Angels
… His nine-year deanship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education concluded, Jerome … expectations have grown much faster than the performance of the schools." Jerome T. Murphy Photograph by Eric Fowke …
Saying Good-bye
… someone always says, "Where is Aunt Marie?" She is gone, of course; she hates to say good-bye. I can't be like … every sleeping cousin, tipsy uncle, and friend of my grandmother's. There is a countdown of days until graduation in a … who is there--not because I expect her to come (she surprises me by knowing to knock when I need it most)--but …
Adella Hunt Logan
… Soon after meeeting Susan B. Anthony in 1895 at a convention of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association (N-AWSA) in … daughter vote right here in the South.” She strove to spur often frightened or otherwise reluctant black women to …
Issue: September-October 2019
Dining by Degrees
… SUMMA Upstairs on the Square (91 Winthrop Street, 617-864-1933) is a reincarnation of Upstairs at the Pudding, and the faithful rejoice. The … unsomber in each of the two restaurants that comprise the establishment. At the Soirée Room on the top floor …
Issue: May-June 2004
Journey into Quabbin Reservoir’s Hidden Past
… For Elena Palladino, Ed.M. ’13, the Quabbin Reservoir preserve in central Massachusetts is … During the last six years, she has delved into the history of the region—and the lives of those forced to leave their communities in 1938 so the …
Issue: September-October 2023
National Concerns about Policing Reverberate at Harvard
… On Monday, June 8, against the backdrop of national protests against police forces and … professionals as first responders to mental-health crises on campus; for Harvard schools to review protocols …
A Conversation with Maureen McLane ’89
… on a Rhodes Scholarship before earning her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She is now a professor of English at NYU. In … I played Williams Carlos Williams. People are always surprised, as I was, by his voice—you tend to think of Williams …
Yesterday’s News
… 1913 The Alumni Bulletin welcomes news of the founding of the Harvard University Press as an “eminently appropriate …
Issue: January-February 2023
Football 2023: Harvard 34-Brown 31
… witnessed a real rock-and-roller between Harvard and Brown. The game featured big plays, spectacular catches, a stirring … In the process, Harvard may have uncovered two breakout offensive stars. With Aidan Borguet ’23, last year’s Crimson … to 24-5. The contest’s back-and-forth nature was no surprise to the veteran coach, who was ready for anything from …
Two Steps to Free Will
… astronomers rarely tackle philosophical issues directly. Theoretical astrophysicist Robert O. Doyle, Ph.D. ’68, associate of the department of astronomy, is an exception. For five years, Doyle has …
Issue: September-October 2012