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Shawon Kinew
… Kinew is interested in how early modern sculptors pushed the boundaries of what sculpture should be able to do. “Even though they’re carving in hard marble,” explains the assistant professor of the history of art and architecture, “they’re …
Issue: January-February 2020
Justice Souter’s Speech: A Conversation Begins
… Some audience members may have been puzzled by the constitutional history lesson , rather than traditional graduation send-off, that retired Supreme Court associate justice David H. Souter ’61, LL.B. ’66, delivered on the afternoon of Commencement day, May 27—a challenge to the “originalist” …
Palace Indignities
… Alexis Gregory ’57 is a collector of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes, a member of the Harvard University Art Museums Collections Committee, …
Issue: January-February 2007
Teaching and Learning: Stories and Suggestions
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is bringing a renewed focus … to teaching and learning . Read about those efforts in the March-April issue, then use the comments space below to share your own examples of innovative teaching, effective learning, or suggestions …
Issue: March-April 2011
News in Brief
… Economics Nobelist Lee professor of economics Claudia Goldin, the first woman tenured in Harvard’s economics department, … ceremony for the first phase of the commercial “enterprise research campus” in Allston took place on November 1. …
Issue: January-February 2024
Spirits Undampened
… Concluding the dinner for honorary-degree recipients in Annenberg Hall … it rains.” Thursday morning, as dawn arrived not in a blaze of sunlight but in a gradual lessening of the gray overhead, … sky,/O they tell me of a home where no storm-clouds rise:/O they tell me of an unclouded day,” etc.), arranged …
10 Downing Street's Gulag
… In October 1952, the British governor of Kenya, Sir Evelyn Baring, declared a state of emergency. Mau Mau rebels were attacking and killing …
Issue: March-April 2005
Good Poets Make Bad Neighbors
… and Carl Sandburg were contesting which one would emerge as the poet laureate of America. At Harvard in 1942 we had both, in succession, … won the prize for his prose, for his monumental biography of Lincoln—strangely, for history, not biography. Even …
Beginning Again
… It was the summer of 1972, and I had one question on my mind: Will … to begin a graduate degree program in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. As the first day of classes approached, I wondered about what I would …
Issue: September-October 2018
Aloian Scholars
… Karl Kmiecik ’10, of Cabot House and Augusta, Georgia, and Kirsten E. M. … David Aloian Memorial Scholars, and will be honored at the fall dinner of the Harvard Alumni Association in … endeavors. And as a member of the Eliot Boat Club, she rises early most mornings to contribute to Eliot’s dominance …
Issue: September-October 2009
Triple Play
… Quinn Hoffman , a Harvard freshman on a 13-game hitting streak, … stepped up to home plate at Fenway Park. Batting second in the 2017 Beanpot baseball championship against Boston … out at the pitcher’s mound, where his father, Trevor Hoffman, had pitched in the 1999 All-Star Game. Beyond the …
Issue: May-June 2018
"This Shaking Keeps Us Steady"
… hard to imagine that an earthquake might ever shake these stately buildings. The ground of Harvard feels like steady ground. Freshman year, though, … crazy,” he said. He had never seen a church steeple made of stone. That was the first time it hit me: some people …
Issue: July-August 2009
This Old (Red) House
… For most of its 202-year history, the cottage at 98 Winthrop Street has been a private residence. A year ago, Paul Overgaag, owner of the now defunct Giannino in the Charles Hotel courtyard, …
Issue: July-August 2004
Yo-Yo Ma's Journeys
… lunch overlooking God's own landscape near Tanglewood, on the patio at Wheatleigh, the poshest hotel in the … come here for dinner. Hey, can we talk about food instead of real life?" Deer are grazing at the bottom of the sloping lawn and a few yards away, a family of wild …
"Thank You, Alumni"
… The University comprises many things —buildings, history, and world-renowned professors—“but it is the alumni who help make Harvard what it … James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70, on June 4. He spoke of alumni contributions at the HAA’s annual meeting, taking …
Issue: July-August 2009