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Honoring a Life with Birds
… Growing up in Cambridge and wandering the wilds of Fresh Pond in the late 1800s, William Brewster scanned the trees and shoreline for signs of fluttering wings, listening for even the faintest peeps, …
Issue: July-August 2022
Harvard's Black-Hole Debunker
… Kareem El-Badry smiles as he recites one of his favorite quotes: “It’s not the things you don’t know that hurt you. It’s the things you … think you know but just ain’t so.” The paraphrased line, often attributed to Mark Twain, has guided El-Badry’s …
2021 HAA Award Winners
… Six alumni have received the HAA Awards for their outstanding service to the University. James E. Bowers James E. Bowers, J.D. ’70, of West Hartford, Connecticut, has served as chair of the … on Participant-Centered Learning and the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network consortium. Jay G. Hooper Jay G. …
Issue: November-December 2021
A Post-Plague Outpost
… A new installation at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts looms like a scene from … death, wildfires, and political upheavals, the components of Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping came together as an … Center, with “animal hybrid forms that have come out of my imagination since I was a child.” She made these …
Issue: January-February 2022
The Happy Warrior Redux
… At a time when the nation is riven and familiar political categories have … vice president Hubert H. Humphrey and, yes, even his brand of liberalism, are enjoying a moment. Into the Bright … path to the 1948 Democratic Convention, where his advocacy of civil rights prompted the Dixiecrat walk-out (and …
Issue: March-April 2024
Special Gifts
… As Harvard University pursues exciting opportunities—from the arts and engineering sciences to ever-wider … the ever-expanding University—at a time when the high value of its work matters as never before to the world—and to … Harvard Magazine requires more and different kinds of funding. Special gifts from alumni enable Harvard …
Lindsay Sanwald, Graduate English Address
… not yet born today will want to know… where were you when the World stopped? It could be your future granddaughter, … Presidential memoir. How will you tell this time? For many of us here today, we get to answer that we were students at … my first and final spring on campus. I began in the fall of 2019 as a fully embodied presence in the classrooms, but …
Deep Roots
… Nwandu ’ 02 has a lot to say. Dressed for battle in the Brooklyn writer’s uniform—sunglasses, leather jacket, … uncharted destinations. Exploratory dialogue is the métier of any good playwright, and Nwandu is very good. Her … deconstruction, and Biblical prophecy. A reinterpretation of Waiting for Godot for the era of Michael Brown and …
Issue: March-April 2020
“Like Driving at Night”
… arrives this spring, didn’t grow up wanting to be a writer. The current Los Angeles resident—born in Orange County, but … attended the College, and her mother the Graduate School of Education. Shipstead says she entered as an “aggressive” … the palpable sorrow hanging over fellow students, many of them East Coasters. With time, she learned to temper her …
Issue: May-June 2021
Silvana Gómez’s Undergraduate English Address
… Creating–Not Accepting–Our New Normal The morning of my first day of kindergarten, I woke up ready to take on the day. At five …
Brevia
… On Wednesday afternoon, May 27, M.Arch. candidates from the Design School who were still in town arranged themselves … R. Martin Chávez ’85, S.M. ’85, has been elected president of the Board of Overseers for the 2020-2021 academic year, and Beth …
Issue: July-August 2020
Racial Bias and Redistricting
… last year, legislators and independent commissions across the United States have been busy redrawing the contours of American democracy. The redistricting process occurs once … voting advantage for a particular group. Partisan fighting arises over the question of who gets the advantage, and how …
Issue: March-April 2022
Virtual Graduation 2.0
… Anyone who worked remotely during the past 16 months knows that doing business digitally is … . More evidence came during “Honoring the Harvard Class of 2021,” on May 27: the second COVID-era virtual graduation … Lawrence S. Bacow and the deans assembled online knocked off the conferring of degrees in about three minutes flat—a …
Issue: July-August 2021
Little Boat, Unsalvaged
… Thwarts, chines, ribs mud-caked, this one's deadrise bow is lifted as if by gusts, whitecaps' scud and swat … schemed in side-yard sun. Where I live marshes fill with them, dull wanderers stoned by trash, the fog-eye of acid-mist. Mud flats, pocked, keep all half-sunk, half …
Issue: September-October 2004
Seven-Hundred-Year-Old Secrets
… Something about the statue made it unforgettable to Ellery Sedgwick, A.B. … it for him three days later: a life-sized wooden statue of a small boy dressed in red, his hands pressed together as if in prayer or meditation. Sedgwick—owner-editor of the Atlantic Monthly— purchased the piece and had it …