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Peabody Museum Discovers Possible Slave Remains in Its Collections
… The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has found among its holdings the remains of 15 people of African descent who were likely alive when … role in collection practices that placed the academic enterprise above respect for the dead and human decency,” he …
Farmers' Friend
… The author of an authoritative, commodity-by-commodity … Latin American studies and a few years studying the impact of public policies on general nutrition while working for … the environment are huge but diffuse: "Agriculture is comprised of a billion farmers globally, with each polluting the …
Issue: September-October 2004
A Student in Tunis for Ramadan
… On June 27 , the city of Tunis was rushing to get ready for the month of Ramadan, which was supposed to begin that night. Shoppers …
Post Pre-Med
… Every year as hundreds of freshmen come to Harvard intent on the pre-med track, hundreds of upperclassmen leave it. I became one of the many who …
Issue: November-December 2009
A Dogged Observer
… a yearlong retreat to Western Massachusetts, he’d wandered the woods, visually researching his book. At first, he paid … to the flora and fauna. But everything changed during one of the first snows when his puppy, Figaro, darted off to chase an interesting smell. Mason saw he was …
Issue: March-April 2024
Raj Chetty and Colleagues Release Controversial Education Study
… Teachers who help students raise their standardized-test scores seem to have a lasting … their lives outside the classroom as well. A new study by professor of economics Raj Chetty , assistant professor in public …
Commencement Address by John Lithgow ’67: “An Actor's Own Words”
… families, and friends, good afternoon and thank you for the honor of addressing you all today. This speech is a major event in … (Funny, I expected to get a few boos on that.) To my surprise, I emerged as a kind of Pied Piper of arts education …
Square Scribes
… Harvard people —faculty members, of course, but also alumni and staff—and others somehow connected to the place are all very conversant … away for so many hours and years in their retail enterprises have earned some leisure, and surely their children …
Issue: January-February 2024
Kaats and Bear Arrive
… tycoon Edward Harriman financed a scientific expedition to the coast of Alaska in 1899 and went along on it with his family. When … six totem poles, onto their steamer. Harriman gave one of the poles to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and …
Issue: January-February 2002
Literary Ambassador
… To assemble a collection of poems that capture the American experience yet are also accessible to children … create La poésie américaine , a new illustrated anthology of 19 American poems that range from the late seventeenth …
Issue: November-December 2005
Cambridge 02138
… DNA Drawing Your discussion of using gene drives to combat malaria was very even-handed … page 37); but DNA is, and must be, right-handed in the twist of its helix. Alas, on your very clever cover … ground for white privilege, rapes, and misogyny is an enterprise unworthy of Harvard. But the administration was just …
Issue: July-August 2016
HAA Clubs and SIGs Awards
… The citations , awarded at the HAA board of directors … organized exceptional programming. E. Andrews Grinstead ’97 of Mobile, Alabama. Having served as the HAA Alumni …
Issue: March-April 2016
Football: Harvard 35, Bucknell 7
… But bringing down Juszczyk is like halting a runaway train. The senior tight end broke free, stiff-armed one more … the end zone, completing the Crimson’s longest pass play of the season. The play covered 59 yards and climaxed a … Saturday evening. Juszczyk’s catch-and-run was emblematic of a big-play Crimson offense that could set new scoring …
Jolson & Company
… Their physical resemblance is striking. Yet deeper ties … '68. Both men are actors and singers; both are descendants of Orthodox Jews; Jolson's father and Hanan's grandfather … were cantors—singers who lead the musical part of the service in synagogues. Both their families emigrated …
Issue: September-October 2002
Cambridge 02138
… Chronic Pain Kathleen Koman’s article about pain (“ The Science of Hurt ,” November-December 2005, page 46) brilliantly … the subject. The piece, however, does readers a profound disservice in its failure to address the issue of the …
Issue: January-February 2006