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The Voices from On High
… public-address announcer for home football games, and in the intervening 73 years, the position has turned over but … Cleary '56 and John Veneziano, then Harvard's directors of athletics and sports information, respectively, who had … penchant for preparation, and also gets an occasional rise out of the crowd, as when he first announced a penalty …
Issue: September-October 2003
Trails of Tears, and Hope
… The hamlet of Alkali Lake, about 100 miles north of Vancouver, is home to one of a handful of surviving … Creek, 70 Mile House, Horsefly, and Likely. In many ways, the history of the 400 Indians living there resembles that …
Issue: March-April 2008
The Fight for the Republic
… In 2021, the United States failed for the first time in its history to achieve a peaceful transfer of presidential power. The events of January 6, observes … I underestimated how much of a successful business enterprise Trump and Trumpism turned out to be for the people …
Bill R. Appleton
… for a Ph.D. in solid state physics at Rutgers and a tour of duty at the nearby Bell Laboratories, in 1967 Bill R. Appleton … By this spring, when he retired from Oak Ridge--the enterprise employs 5,000 people, one-third of them degreed …
The Fiscal Norm
… The University’s fiscal year 2015, concluded last June 30 … report released in late October, mirrors the outcome of the prior year: Harvard again operated in the black, … outstripping sponsored support. The 7.4 percent rise in continuing-education and executive-programs tuition …
Issue: January-February 2016
The Paintings Behind the Books in the Harvard Botanical Museum
… When Richard Evans Schultes ’37, Ph.D. ’41 became director of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University in 1967, he could … quotation in which it is mentioned. The collection comprised 73 paintings of 182 plants, botanically accurate and …
The Gene Hunter
… Louis M. Kunkel is a wiry man of medium height with a lot of energy, quiet passion, and notable persistence. The professor of pediatrics and of genetics has very little … to understand hereditary diseases and cancers that arise within us. Kunkel, in fact, is one of the researchers …
Issue: March-April 2011
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
Mapping the Ganges
… In the summer of 2005, Anthony Acciavatti, M.Arch. ’09, and his … in rural, north-central India, not far from the sacred city of Varanasi. They had stopped to watch the “soupy, brown … future of the country’s water supply, though, he is not surprised that he has yet to hear back about those ideas. Indian …
Issue: January-February 2016
Efficient Taxation of Income
… In June 2001, President George W. Bush signed the Economic Growth and Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act into law, initiating a 10-year program of tax reductions. This January, the president proposed a … to remove barriers to efficient allocation of capital that arise from disparities in the tax treatment of different …
Issue: March-April 2003
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
“The Greatest Demonstration of Public Service”
… In the favoring presence of family, friends, alumni reunioners, … other supporters, seven imminent graduates took their oaths of office and joined the armed forces of the United States …
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 Slovenliness of the Intellectual
… A meticulous excavation of personal history, Jacob’s Cane: A Jewish Family’s Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore (Basic …
Issue: September-October 2009
A Chill in the Air?
… with graduates gone and undergraduates scattered for the summer—the College announced a shift in its … from counseling , provided since 1947 through the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC), to skill-oriented coaching , to be … call for some level of counseling and support that does not rise to the level of full mental-health care. And for some …
Issue: September-October 2019