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A Gift for Openness
… When Sidney Verba, Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library, described the library's fledgling …
Issue: September-October 2004
Deciphering Lyme Disease
… Whole-genome sequencing of hundreds of samples of Borrelia burgdorferi, the tick-borne bacterium that causes Lyme disease, has …
Issue: January-February 2024
Origin Stories
… The bow and arrow press, ensconced in the Adams House B-Entry basement, keeps alive the art of letterpress printing. But sometimes news about venerable … to Richard Binell ’79, he “found the 1916 Vandercook proof press collecting dust and rust” in the Adams basement in …
Issue: September-October 2021
Harvard Women Take Rugby Title
… The Harvard varsity women’s rugby team opened their initial … with a 29-0 victory over Dartmouth in the final of the Ancient Eight tourney in Hanover, New Hampshire on … Harvard’s forty-second varsity sport. Under the leadership of coach Sue Parker, the ruggers compiled a 5-2 record, …
Scientific Stardom
… skyward, he had already begun to burnish his reputation on the ground with another invention: a geometric and military … roots and compound interest. His compass became “a tool of power,” says professor of the history of science Hannah Marcus: it turned …
Issue: March-April 2025
Take Me Out
… The Art of Baseball, opening April 17 at the Concord Museum and guest curated by historian and fan … Ph.D. ’68, celebrates not only the sport, but the love of the game. On display are eclectic memorabilia—a …
Issue: March-April 2015
Reforming Misdemeanors
… American prosecutors file criminal misdemeanor charges. These crimes are often described as “minor,” ranging from “victimless crimes” … though many cases are dismissed before trial. Kreindler professor of law Alexandra Natapoff argues that by …
Issue: January-February 2025
Nathan Marsh Pusey
… In his habits of character and his presidential style, Nathan Pusey '28, Ph.D '37, LL.D '72, was a figure of transition. The last of a breed in some respects, he did more than …
Issue: January-February 2002
How Birds Lost Flight
… emus , ostriches, and kiwis end up flightless? What chain of events resulted in these birds diverging from the species that soar through the … lived about 80 to 100 million years ago, before the rupture of the Gondwanan supercontinent. With that landmass’s …
Issue: March-April 2024
Paradoxical Fables
… In his recent collection, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (Penguin) , the short stories of Ben Loory ’93 often begin with a direct, declarative … and there’s her life on the page. This same element of surprise will likely startle in Loory’s future work: he is now …
Issue: January-February 2013
First Fellow's Farewell
… Concluding 27 years of service as a member of the Harvard Corporation, Robert G. Stone Jr. '45 will …
Issue: March-April 2002
Sisters in Basketball
… “At first I was a bull in a china shop,” the winningest basketball coach in Ivy League history was … women.” That evening, Kathy Delaney-Smith, the Friends of Harvard women’s basketball head coach—a position she has … support for other women in the corporate world had surprised her. “You can certainly look at employment …
Princeton’s Strong Investment Returns, Endowment Growth
… Rounding out fiscal-year reports by the major universities, Princeton last Friday announced that … , right in line with Yale (21.9 percent) , and just ahead of Harvard Management Company’s 21.4 percent , reported on … Two institutions with smaller endowments had the best rates of return reported to date: Duke, with a 24.5 percent …
Philadelphia's Story
… Philadelphia stands as the perfect prototype of the broken urban school system that … shown little capacity for self-improvement. The performance of its fourth-grade students on the National Assessment of …
Issue: September-October 2016
Harvard College Delays General-Education Curriculum
… Harvard undergraduates resuming classes for the new semester today may be surprised by the announcement, contained within College dean … Education curriculum, scheduled to begin in the fall of 2018, has been postponed a full academic year. He wrote: …