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Culinary Postcards
… In 1766, Harvard students staged a demonstration to protest the College dining halls’ butter, back then a sour staple. Asa Dunbar, grandfather of Henry David Thoreau, is said to have begun the battle cry … of where our students are coming from?” That cognizance surprised me at first. Coming into Harvard, I was most taken by …
Issue: January-February 2022
Harvard @ Home
… which provides alumni with on-line access to a variety of intellectual happenings at the University, has expanded its offerings. Now available is a discussion on "Benjamin …
A Taboo Passion
… A Taboo Passion : "Addiction is the name we give to a taboo passion," says Ann Marlowe '79, G '80, author of how to stop time: heroin from A to Z (Basic Books, 1999), a rare literary treatment of heroin that neither defends nor demonizes the drug. …
Return to Learn
… The Alumni College programs, run by the Harvard Alumni … day-long symposia to two-hour workshops and cover an array of topics. Alumni events offered this fall include: Collection Series: Looking at …
Issue: September-October 2006
Orchid Peeping
… probing pollination strategies opened on Valentine's Day at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and will run through May 14. Orchids: A Story of Seduction features live orchids, a continuous slide show …
“Be Bold, Be Courageous, Be Your Best!”
… he himself was “no academic all-star”—and was even “kind of a crappy” airman—when he nevertheless decided to fly into space someday. Mars eluded him, … did not propel this ambitious plan, he said, “just as many of you aren’t getting your degrees tomorrow just because …
Life After Work
… "learning how to maintain self-respect while letting go of self-importance," writes Harvard professor of psychiatry George E. Vaillant '55, M.D. '59, in his book Aging Well. The much-touted "third age" can be frightening for many …
Issue: November-December 2002
Home Sweet Home
… When the Lincolns moved into the White House in 1861--son Robert … '93, was away at Harvard--"the whole place had the air of a run-down, unsuccessful, third-rate hotel," writes David Herbert Donald, Warren professor of American history and American civilization …
Your Harvard Classics
… you choose for a twenty-first century Harvard Classics?" the editors asked readers (November-December, page 56), inviting them to submit lists of 10 books, excluding various titles and authors deemed … By press time, 38 lists were in hand. The book chosen most often was James Joyce's Ulysses (six times), followed by …
Visionary Donors
… Robert Bliss died in 1962, Mildred Bliss in 1969, but the benefactors of Dumbarton Oaks still cast a long shadow over their former … who combined its first recorded name—taken from the Rock of Dumbarton in Scotland, the homeland of early owner Ninian …
Issue: May-June 2008
Two Buildings, Many Obstacles
… Permit hurdles remained as this magazine went to press, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' (FAS) long-delayed effort to cluster … plans to build on the open lawn behind the Graduate School of Design's (GSD) Gund Hall met stiff opposition from a …
Cryptic Puzzle: “Namesake”
… Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution … – Bonita Springs, FL Christine Lukacs '91 – Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico Daniel J. Milton – … – Farmington Hills, MI … Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. … March-April 2011 …
Henry Francis du Pont
… "I am now living quietly in a house that I built near the Museum, where I shall be glad to welcome any of my classmates who may find their way through Delaware." … du Pont converted it into the world's preeminent showplace of furniture and decorative arts made or used in the United …
Issue: July-August 2003
Sean Kelly Named Dean of Arts and Humanities
… Sean Kelly, Martignetti professor of philosophy, has been appointed dean of the division of arts and humanities within Harvard’s Faculty …
Cambridge Hot Spot
… Sandwiched between Veggie Planet and the Central Square Theater, La Fábrica is the most exciting … music, food, and dancing in Cambridge. Actually, it’s one of the only such dynamic destinations in Greater Boston. “We have some of the best salsa, merengue, and Latin jazz musicians here …
Issue: November-December 2019