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Alma Mater, Updated
… When Harvard announced that the time had come to retire the final line of the alma mater—“Till the stock of the Puritans die”— a Rube Goldberg marvel of …
Harvard Poets, by Ear
… The clear, plainspoken voice of William Carlos Williams, … it should be heard: it’s very difficult sometimes to get it off the page….In other words, if it ain’t a pleasure, it …
Harvard Medalists
… were publicly thanked by President Lawrence H. Summers for their exceptional service to the University during the HAA’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement. Guralnick Photograph by Jim Harrison … Photograph by Jim Harrison Walter C. Guralnick, D.M.D. ’41, of Boston— Pioneering professor and practitioner of …
Issue: July-August 2005
Making a MOOC
… A well-known public-health anecdote, the birth-weight paradox, is often used to illustrate how cause and effect can become … “is that maternal smoking is associated with a lower risk of mortality among infants who had a low birth weight.” In …
Issue: September-October 2017
Last Chapter
… The display room of Harvard University Press (HUP)—a fixture in the Holyoke Center arcade since 1966—and before that, on … on June 17. The proximate cause was the decision by two of the three employees, manager Jeff S. Flemming ’73 and …
Issue: September-October 2009
How to Think Green
… Six “all-star environmental professors” spoke in rapid-fire fashion at “Harvard Thinks Green” on the afternoon of December 8, each giving a 10-minute presentation on …
Reinterpreting Roe v. Wade
… times more likely to name Roe v. Wade than Brown v. Board of Education . “Why? It comes to mind because over the past 37 years, Roe versus Wade has become synonymous with political controversy and has generated profound social conflict,” Linda Greenhouse ’68 explained in a …
Football Star Justice Shelton-Mosley to Transfer
… Call him Commodore Shelton-Mosley. Taking advantage of major college football’s so-called “graduate-transfer … ’19, who in three-plus seasons at Harvard became one of the school’s greatest kick returners and wide receivers, …
Making Space
… Just as I was sitting down to write this column before the Thanksgiving break, amidst grim reports of a rapidly spreading virus, welcome news about the work of … $75,000 grand prize in the Social Impact or Cultural Enterprise category. With increased visibility and viability, …
Issue: January-February 2021
Teaching Humanities at West Point
… When President Drew Faust visits the United States Military Academy at West Point today, she … is scheduled to meet with an interdisciplinary colloquium of faculty and staff members who have been reading her … the beginning of the twenty-first century. That enterprise at once crystallized and confused so many things a lot …
Social Clubs Must File Gender Breakdown
… To be recognized officially by the College, and avoid becoming a target of its new policy that sanctions members of unrecognized …
Elucidating Public Health
… The Public Health Museum in Tewksbury Hospital’s old … historic site), helps illustrate efforts to combat some of the deadliest diseases in modern American history. There’s an iron lung, made by J.H. Emerson Co., of Cambridge, used to treat polio. Nearby are lung X-rays …
Issue: March-April 2017
Online Evolution Accelerates
… The evolution of technologically enabled teaching and … the website describes edX as “a not-for-profit enterprise dedicated to Massive Open Online Courses.” To … significant funding cuts even as student demand has risen, required courses are over-enrolled, and students …
Issue: March-April 2013
Splendid Spring Sports
… Crew The heavyweight men won their third consecutive national … Sprints in Worcester. The lightweight men’s odd-year streak of national titles, dating from 1991, finally ended at the … at the NCAA championships. Baseball With a two-game sweep of Cornell, 2-0 and 4-2, the baseballers (29-17) captured …
Issue: July-August 2005
Head Baseball Coach Joe Walsh Dies Suddenly
… with Harvard athletics, Massachusetts baseball, and the larger baseball community,” Nichols Family director of athletics Bob Scalise told The Boston Globe . “Joe’s … in the Ivy League and he positively impacted the lives of so many people. To say that he will be missed would be an …