Search
Cambridge 02138
… and Law, ” January-February, page 49) for largely avoiding the gushing worshipfulness of the typical Harvard Magazine piece. But I still must … Indonesia, though, the use of the death penalty is on the rise. Thank you for pointing to this broader global context. …
Issue: March-April 2016
Blessed Unexpectedly
… Tennessee williams , author of A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, was among 11 people awarded honorary doctoral degrees at Harvard’s Commencement in 1982. Another was Mother Teresa of Calcutta, winner of the Nobel …
Issue: January-February 2013
Marc Shell
… Marc Shell Photograph by Stu Rosner Marc Shell is Babbitt professor of comparative literature, a professor of English, a MacArthur Prize Fellow, and these days, as he puts it, “a more or less inaudible …
Issue: January-February 2006
Holocaust Remembrance Exhibit Comes to Harvard
… students, Harvard administrators, and community members gathered in front of Widener Library to open “ Hate Ends Now ,” a nationally touring exhibit that displays a replica of the cattle cars used to transport Jews and others to …
Culture(less) Club
… During the year and a half I have spent as a student at Harvard, … tRNA in a Life Sciences 1a lecture, experienced the nature of causation in Philosophy 8, and proclaimed the … of a reputation for homogeneity. Thus it was with great surprise and delight that I arrived on campus to find that my …
Issue: May-June 2007
Cambridge 02138
… Joblessness and Immigration It is noteworthy that in “The Urban Jobs Crisis,” by James M. Quane, William Julius … and Jackelyn Hwang (May-June, page 42), there is no mention of the impact of the many millions of legal and illegal … blacks and Latinos. In this regard, we do mention the rise in immigration, particularly among low-skilled Latinos, …
Issue: July-August 2013
Football: Harvard 14, Penn 27
… For the previous three weeks the Harvard football team had (pick … three-way tie for first place going into the final weekend of the season, during which Harvard will host Yale, Penn … Joe Viviano ’17, who grew up in the Philadelphia suburb of Berwyn. Harried all night and sacked six times by a …
Convocation for a Bicentennial
… Seriously and joyfully, Harvard Divinity School (HDS) began the academic year, and celebration of its bicentennial year*, with images and words that looked … to “Illuminate. Engage. Serve.” Tuesday’s events, the first of a wide-ranging year’s worth , began with an afternoon …
Getting His Reps in
… Floyd-Pruitt’s first year in art school, he arrived at the sculpture lab one weekend to find it locked. This was a … modular wall hanging assembled from found objects made of wood. On Monday, when the lab opened again, Floyd-Pruitt … early to apply a few finishing touches and apply a coat of orange paint. The next day, he presented it to his …
Issue: September-October 2023
President Faust to Join Corporate Board
… President Drew Faust has been nominated for election to the board of directors of Staples, Inc., the office-supplies retailer … FedEx, Marathon Oil, Medtronic, and Public Service Enterprise Group (and has held other corporate-board seats)—a set …
Reenacting Early Action
… Starting this fall, students will again have the option of applying to the College under a nonbinding … College decided to eliminate early action for applicants as of the fall of 2007 and move to a single January 1 deadline. …
Issue: May-June 2011
Map Miscreant
… Edward Forbes Smiley III, of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, was caught in June 2005 leaving Yale’s Beinecke Library with five of its rare maps in his briefcase and tweed jacket. A … removing a map (valued at $150,000) from a book. Following the announcement of Smiley’s arrest, the Harvard College …
Issue: September-October 2006
Harvard 28, Cornell 10
… The passing attack , arguably the most potent weapon in … He had previously seen special-teams action, but the pickoffs came on the second and third defensive downs of Owusu’s nascent career. Gordon, Harvard’s top rusher, …
Into India
… At 8 in the morning , the sidewalks of Mumbai’s Nariman Point … their children become curious about their roots, demand has risen for courses on the region. At the same time, India’s …
Issue: March-April 2012
Cambridge 02138
… entomologist Andrew Spielman's work and citing his views ("The Landscape Infections," November-December 2001, page 43), … do useful things like pollinate flowers." The moral purpose of human beings may or may not intersect with that of the … him. Lawrence Cranberg, A.M. '40 Austin, Tex. I was surprised that Kirsch made no mention of the very similar …
Issue: January-February 2002