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… Hating Harvard Congratulations to the editors for featuring “ Why Americans Love to Hate … His thoughts are well balanced and are based on decades of direct involvement in the issues at hand at the highest … to have power over them. Is it any wonder that resentment arises? It hardly matters whether the offending graduate is a …
Issue: May-June 2024
Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland
… If only because politicians frequently quote them, you’re likely familiar with poet Seamus Heaney’s … lines about the too-rare possibility that “justice can rise up, / And hope and history rhyme.” President Joe Biden, for one, has often cited the poem from which they come, including in the …
A Divinity Activist
… Father J. Bryan Hehir from the start was on loan to Harvard. … When he came to teach at the Divinity School and be part of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in 1992, he also had an ecclesiastical assignment as pastor of St. Paul's Church in Cambridge. When President Neil L. …
Issue: November-December 2001
Saber-Fighting Warrior
… "There is something so visceral about facing off against … Then the fencers salute their opponents, the fencing officials (called "directors"), and, in national …
Issue: January-February 2004
Sky High
… James E. Smolen ’71, Ph.D. ’76, has a distinctive way of escaping conventional life. Flying, he says, “is one of those hobbies that guarantees that your worldly worries remain on the ground.” Smolen has been air-bound since age three, …
Issue: November-December 2005
Radcliffe Institute Announces Its 2010-2011 Fellows
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced its … include creative artists, humanists, and scientists; all of them will work on specific projects (listed in italics … emerge during their time here,” said Barbara J. Grosz, dean of the Radcliffe Institute and Higgins professor of natural …
We Remember WWI
… To honor the nation’s veterans, Harvard Magazine is republishing Adam Goodheart’s remarkable collection of stories about the Great War, “We Remember World War I,” which appeared in the November-December issue of 1993, together with contributing editor Jim Harrison’s …
“Shopping Week” Extended
… students’ cherished “shopping week”—for sampling classes at the start of each term before registering formally—may not have nine … But, the committee concluded, uncertain course enrollments arise from “FAS’s commitment to accommodate student demand as …
Vita: Fanny Bullock Workman
… At a 1907 meeting of the Royal Geographical Society , in London, William Hunter Workman, M.D. 1873, spoke of his recent expedition into the Nun Kun area of the …
Issue: March-April 2012
Harvard Graduates Leave No One Behind
… HIS TWO DEPLOYMENTS TO AFGHANISTAN as an Air Force officer, Phil Caruso, J.D.-M.B.A. ’19, worked closely with … an Afghan informant who collected information on behalf of the United States, risking his life in the process. “He …
Issue: May-June 2022
Edwin Binney, 3rd
… Few realize that the sale of Binney & Smith Crayola crayons, those staples of so many childhoods, helped fund one of the largest …
Issue: January-February 2021
Commencement 2007
… Below, you will find full texts and audiovisual recordings of major speeches, the Phi Beta Kappa poet and Orator, and the lead student … orators. Complete coverage appears in the July-August issue of Harvard Magazine, here . Tuesday, June 5. Phi Beta Kappa …
Omnibus Omicron Intelligence
… current vaccine protection against severe disease? What are the new, state-of-the-art treatments for people who become infected? … Evolving Virus The rapid evolution of the virus has surprised researchers more than once. Jacob Lemieux, instructor …
Yesterday's News
… a new parietal rule, stating that "Students living in the Houses will be given permission to entertain ladies in … are two or more ladies present." The rule provokes a slew of petitions for "one sole woman" and the Bulletin 's … is removed, there'll be breaking and entering on the part of single, defiant misses, till the students scream for …
Issue: September-October 2001
Milman Parry
… Milman Parry saw the Homeric epics through new eyes, heard them through new … ears. The Iliad and the Odyssey , he said, were the work of generations of illiterate poets who composed orally; their poetry took …
Issue: September-October 2022