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Harvard's Hammond
… Mason Hammond '25, G '32, LL.D. '94, Pope professor of the Latin language and literature emeritus, died on October … to be too conservative for such a daring move, he surprised many, including the undergraduate leadership which had …
Issue: March-April 2003
President Bacow Reviews Harvard Climate Actions
… In a letter to the Harvard community this afternoon addressing climate … fully engaged in the critical work ahead.” The appearance of such a letter was perhaps not surprising in the current global context of wildfires and hurricanes, heatwaves, and deluges and …
Designed to Shop
… Goethe— no doubt inspired by European … as "frozen music." The Wal-Marts and Home Depots of today's consumption-based societies might embody instead … book examines all things retail—from the architecture of Niketown, Disneyworld, and airport malls to the histories …
Issue: July-August 2002
Moving Pictures, Hard Questions
… Filling up his tank at a local gas station, a man noticed the silhouette of another man, just beyond the gas station’s overhang, … for one letter, the same letter, written in the middle of each card. This may sound suspiciously like the opening …
Issue: March-April 2008
A Peal Before Leaving
… Question: “What was I, a young American student of medicine and electrical engineering—and an observant Jew—doing in the frozen bell tower of a Russian Orthodox monastery in Moscow on the eve of the …
Issue: May-June 2008
Chapter & Verse
… Arnold Schwab seeks to verify the author of a squib about Oscar Wilde, attributed in a … Geldon and Jane Arnold provided the leads that identified “Of Missing Persons,” by Jack Finney, as the short story in …
Issue: September-October 2005
“Far From a Finished Product”
… basketball presence, Harvard has never had to look farther than Boston College—a longtime Big East power and now a member of the highly competitive Atlantic Coast Conference—for a … overjoyed after having upset the number-one University of North Carolina three days earlier—had looked past the …
Cambridge 02138
… Elsa Dorfman With great joy I read “The Portraitist” (by Sophia Nguyen, September-October, page … auto mechanic. The judge set his bail at $3 million. (One of the bailiffs asked me, “What president did he … on this matter. But sorely and sadly I’m not at all surprised. Terribly, whatever awesome good comes from and …
Issue: November-December 2017
A Planner for GSD
… to his plan, Alan A. Altshuler would have spent one of the snowiest Cambridge winters on record in Singapore. Instead, he became dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD). He was appointed in …
Issue: May-June 2005
Printer’s Mark
… page for a book, or stamping for its spine, or a catalog of forthcoming books, or a flyer promoting them, he or she appears to have turned to the type-specimen book of the Printing Office (the office itself closed in 2002) …
Issue: March-April 2013
Designs for a New India
… There are two Hyderabads. One, a historic city in the heart … two worlds rarely mix. Workers from HITEC City’s towering office buildings—emblazoned with their logos: Motorola, …
Issue: May-June 2012
Stick, Helmet, and Butterfly
… Hockey parents, they say, don’t like their kids to become goalies because … icemen, Crimson goalie Kyle Richter ’10 has a perfect set of teeth. This season, Richter has had ample reason to … a 6-3-2 record, at that point, and the performance in goal of the six-foot, one-inch, 188-pound Richter was an …
Issue: March-April 2008
Capital Connections
… Catherine A. Gellert ’93, the new president of the Harvard … up, she says. “I quickly learned that this was the spirit of the HAA: folks who care deeply, who are experienced …
Issue: September-October 2013
Venezuelan Delights
… Orinoco: A Latin Kitchen , one of the few Venezuelan restaurants in Greater Boston, offers carefully tended, bold food in a lively setting. …
Issue: July-August 2010
Commencement Confetti
… New and Old Photographs by Jim Harrison In its tenth year of elevation from a division of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the cutting-edge School …
Issue: July-August 2017