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To Catch a Crawdad
… spent frantically watching lecture videos late into the night, I instead found myself driving a 16-foot, … how many basic assumptions were undermined. I felt a profound connection with the protagonist of Disney’s The … is silvery and softly reflective, like the starship Enterprise. The buds, fuzzy and hard, emerge while the rest of the …
Issue: September-October 2020
Endowments: The Specter of Taxation
… fellow university leaders successfully persuaded members of Congress to sustain federal funding for scientific research—in opposition to the Trump administration’s budget outline—they now find the … from the endowment to support the academic enterprise: $1.8 billion, or 36 percent of Harvard’s revenue for …
The Ph.D. Problem
… Bass professor of English Louis Menand is a literary critic and intellectual and cultural historian—author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club and a regular contributor to the New …
Issue: November-December 2009
An “Oracle of Aqua”
… “Ours is a society of sensual eunuchs, impotent to the callings of the wildness within and as a result, the pull of that …
Issue: January-February 2007
What a Human Should Be
… “We are gathering experience, ” Bauhaus workshop master Josef Albers … introductory course, which tried to scoop the gunk of aesthetic tradition and creative convention out of … arts, unified, would create a future that would “one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like …
Issue: March-April 2019
Geographers See Death, Birth, and Job Prospects
… Three days before Harvard’s launch of the Center for Geographic Analysis, National Geographic News … Geography was the first good opportunity.” Geography would rise from this wreckage. The quantitative method of …
Issue: November-December 2006
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
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
The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination
… J.K. Rowling , author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the …
Ray Charles Plays the "Harvard Club"
… The most grandiose structure on the McLean Hospital campus … was known as the "Harvard Club" because "at one time, each of its majestic corner suites was said to have been occupied … Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam in Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital …
Issue: January-February 2002
Yesterday's News
… 1919 Alice Hamilton is appointed assistant professor of industrial medicine, becoming the first woman to hold a professorial position at the … see each other." 1984 Computer-consciousness is on the rise throughout the University. The Business School has …
Issue: March-April 2004
Words of Wisdom
… daily, watch your diet, and do what you most enjoy.” “One of the best things that can happen is to get fired.” “Don’t … you will end up doing something very meaningful and worthy of your best efforts.” Though these words of wisdom could …
Vita: Gertrude of Helfta
… Saint Gertrude of helfta , known as “The Great,” was given to the German convent of Helfta as a child of five to be reared as a nun, received …
Issue: May-June 2012
Boats and Coats
… who practiced his craft for many years at the Harvard-Smithson- ian Center for Astrophysics, died on … small!) telescopes to achieve the light-collecting power of impossibly larger single instruments (the feature now at the center of next-generation machines, like the Giant Magellan, described in “ Seeing …
Issue: May-June 2020
“The Spirit of Commitment and Sacrifice”
… At the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps commissioning ceremony on Wednesday, May 27, three College seniors joined the U.S. Army and a fourth joined the U.S. Navy. The new second lieutenants are: Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, of New Haven, Connecticut, who concentrated in philosophy …