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Chapter & Verse
… Wayles Brown seeks to locate a story about a boy of English and Hindu parentage who encounters the word “Eurasian” and asks his teachers what it means. … [and] Bradshaw” (July-August). Bettina Arnold was the first of several readers to suggest The Five Red Herrings, by …
Issue: September-October 2006
Engineering Virus-free Cells… and Organs?
… man named David Bennett Sr. made history when he became the first human patient to receive a heart transplanted from … has been heralded as the solution for an acute shortage of transplant organs, which results in the deaths of perhaps a dozen Americans every day. Faced with the …
Issue: July-August 2023
Brevia
… Dean Sarah Whiting, a Yale alumna who earned her master of architecture degree from Princeton and her Ph.D. from … MIT—and was a design critic and assistant and associate professor at the Graduate School of Design at the turn of the …
Issue: July-August 2019
Chapter & Verse
… Lewis Robinson asks who wrote of never seeing a man with a large house and barn without imagining him carrying the house and barn on his back. Toni Verso seeks a story … "The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man …
Issue: September-October 2002
Cambridge 02138
… Harvard and Slavery While the new stone tablet on Wadsworth House acknowledging four … by the Harvard and Slavery Project not find evidence of the College employing other slaves, at Wadsworth House … were Harvard’s only involvement in our national shame of slavery. Assuming that there is actually evidence of …
Issue: September-October 2016
Brevia
… CONCEIVING CUBISM. The Fogg Art Museum has acquired Georges Braque's La Baie de l'Estaque (Bay of l'Estaque), painted in 1908. Created during Braque's … landscapes during the 1880s, Braque's planar rendering of the same scenes is considered among the earliest cubist …
Issue: November-December 2001
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 …
Kennedy: Color Line Persists in U.S. Politics
… although Barack Obama’s election was thought by many to be the ultimate sign of racial progress in America, it has also resulted in “an inflated sense of accomplishment” within the United States, warns Klein …
Yale Hires Four Harvard Football Coaches
… The Yale football program has reportedly hired four of … in December after three seasons, following the exposure of lies he included on his résumé and on the official Yale …
Economist Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
… The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has conferred the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on Lee professor of economics Claudia Goldin. She was honored for …
Politicking as Crimson-Hued Blood Sport
… Dissent: A Moral and Legal Evaluation," carefully explored the issues associated with "the question of the extent to which we can legitimately demand that the … His argument—with special thanks to his advisers, professors Michael Walzer and Arthur Sutherland, and further …
Far From Home
… Bantu tribal people were brought to Somalia from other African countries as slaves in the nineteenth century. … at least 5 percent (and by some estimates, much more) of Somalia’s population, didn’t have even one representative … were defenseless as armed groups from both sides of the conflict started coming to their communities, raping, …
Issue: November-December 2012
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
Princeton Details Endowment Results and Spending-Reduction Plans
… In a January 8 letter to the Princeton University community, that institution's … M. Tilghman, outlined its financial status in the wake of declining endowment values, and the steps that will be … illiquid endowment holdings); and "more than 45 percent" of operating revenue derived from the endowment—and the …
“Biological Time Travel”
… From glowing fish to bacteria that can count, synthetic biologists are now able to create life forms never … Ecclesiastes be damned,” says Sophia Roosth , assistant professor in the history of science. “In the first decades of the twenty-first …