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As Schoenhof’s Shutters, a Look at the Square’s Independent Bookstores
… 25, Harvard Square will bid a final farewell to Schoenhof’s Foreign Books. The 150-year-old bookstore currently lives on Mount Auburn … country and in Harvard Square, Mayersohn admits that the rise of online retailers like Amazon has posed a serious …
The Biology of Right and Wrong
… Philosophers have long debated the foundations of moral decision-making. “Rationalists” … empathy should guide moral decisions. Now Hazel associate professor of the social sciences Joshua Greene , a …
Issue: January-February 2012
The Whistle
… M.B.A. ’95, golfs with his two young sons, Jack and Danny. “They love it, but they wouldn’t sit and watch a four-hour … and make it fast-paced, with graphics and stats on the side of the screen, and interviews with players, and audio—more … engaged.” At least that’s what West and other co-founders of The Whistle are betting on. The new company promotes …
Issue: July-August 2012
The Football Industrial Complex
… Dick Friedman ’73—proud alumnus of both Fair Harvard and Sports Illustrated, where he toiled … each fall, in lively, nuanced accounts resonant with the sport’s history . Now he has dived deep into the glory … the college….The fact is that, driven on by the enterprise of our sporting editors, we are as a people losing our …
Issue: September-October 2018
The Office for the Arts Turns 50
… No celebration for the Office for the Arts (OFA) could possibly capture the … education.” Wu’s piano grew more intense and, during the reprise, Vandermel approached the edge of the stage like a pop …
The Mystery of Mathematics
… A couple of years ago, I found myself reading through the “Principal’s Column” in an email newsletter from my … essay, the school principal wrote, “I don’t have memories of curling up with a workbook and solving equations the way …
Issue: January-February 2020
The Egalitarian
… At the moment , no book is more visible or abundant at the gift shop of the National Archives in Washington, D.C., where more … that liberty and equality are on a seesaw, that one can rise only at the expense of the other. Instead, she …
Issue: May-June 2016
Kerry Washington Named Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year
… Kerry Washington has been chosen to receive the 2016 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Award, honoring a “talented and socially engaged … group announced on January 6 . She joins an elite list of actresses honored by the nation’s oldest undergraduate …
“The Grand Wake for Harvard Indifference”
… and Radcliffe students jammed Emerson Hall to express their outrage at Kristallnacht , as the Nazis sarcastically … two refugees, in a parallel effort, to Radcliffe—it gave rise, with astonishing speed, to a national grassroots movement that helped hundreds of persecuted Central European students find refuge and …
Issue: September-October 2006
Bob Odenkirk and Jennifer Coolidge Named Hasty Pudding’s 2023 Man and Woman of the Year
… The Hasty Pudding Theatricals will soon hand the Pudding Pot … Coolidge and Bob Odenkirk, their 2023 Woman and Man of the Year. Woman of the Year Coolidge is beloved for her … producer Aidan Golub ’24. “We’re cooking up a lot of surprises to celebrate Mr. Odenkirk’s contributions to the world …
A God’s Eye View of Space
… Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement with an Agassiz neighborhood group about the scope of development there during the next 25 years. In a "memorandum of understanding," Harvard committed to building no more …
Issue: March-April 2004
Ahead of His Time
… 1855, LL.D. 1882, left a huge mark on Boston (he founded the symphony) and Harvard (he joined the Corporation in … steps into Allston. He also organized the purchase of the downtown site for the Medical School. In 1899, Higginson donated $150,000 for construction of the Harvard Union, a center intended to welcome all in a …
Issue: November-December 2022
Pondering the Extracurricular “Founders” Puzzle
… for a postgraduate fellowship last fall over Zoom, one of the interviewers pointed out that during my time at Harvard, … your résumé with the title of ‘Founder’?” It’s difficult to rise to the presidency of a student organization steeped in …
Issue: July-August 2021
A Slice of Russia
… Around 1650, somewhere in what was then Russian territory, an artist transformed a piece of wood into a devotional object. On it, he painted a scene from The Presentation of Mary, a pivotal Christian theological event. The Gospel …
Issue: November-December 2014
Photo Recap: The 70th Annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman and Man of the Year Awards
… The Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) presented their 2020 Woman and Man of the Year Awards to Elizabeth Banks and Ben Platt: the … director, and producer; the latter, the youngest recipient of the Man of the Year Award and one Oscar away from being …