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… Unequal Universities I appreciated the useful selections from Charles T. Clotfelder’s extensive … unequal,” November-December 2017, page 50). I was surprised, nonetheless, to find only passing reference to the … support from the states that took the federal grants of land, first authorized by the Morrill Act of 1862, “to …
Issue: January-February 2018
From Borneo to Rodeo
… D erring-do. Peter Ashton, a pioneer in the study of Asian tropical forests—particularly of the towering dipterocarps that dominated the canopy he …
Issue: January-February 2020
Songs for Scientists, Parts I and II
… In introducing her poem at the Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises on June 6 in Sanders … its "various sources, one ephemeral--a postcard some of you may have seen, which portrays the Cornell brain … the Audubon Guide to North American Birds. It's in memory of my father, who died this year, on my birthday." I. BRAIN …
Title IX at 45
… students once got ready to play basketball or field hockey, they put on uniforms of knee-length skirts or shorts, with tights underneath. … Study in April, coinciding with the forty-fifth anniversary of Title IX’s passage. The exhibit uses Title IX as a lens …
Cornucopias in Paint
… It’s the most unlikely of galleries—a concrete retaining wall in the shadow of Interstate 93, just outside Boston. But David Fichter ’73 …
Issue: September-October 2011
Yesterday’s News
… 1915 The Bulletin salutes the fiftieth anniversary of the Harvard Club of New York with particular praise for its activism: more …
Issue: November-December 2010
Relational Lens
… For Geoffrey Biddle ’72, photography has been a way of earning a living, practicing an art, and understanding his family. Or rather, families: Biddle has had two marriages and fathered …
Issue: July-August 2014
Creating Space to Contemplate Success
… we are successful, and where we are falling short,” Hobbs professor of cognition and education Howard Gardner and his coauthors … write in Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet . Yet these conversations—both internal and among friends—seem to …
Issue: November-December 2008
Yesterday’s News
… S. Hurlbut notes in his annual report that students in the past year averaged more than 30 class absences apiece. … even stupidity is no obstacle to perfection in regularity of attendance.” 1926 The athletic authorities of Yale, Princeton, and Harvard agree to charge $5 a ticket …
Issue: March-April 2011
Endowment Indicators
… What might the University expect when Harvard Management Company (HMC) … Jane L. Mendillo, HMC’s president and chief executive officer, earlier revealed that she will step down at the end of 2014 , and Paul J. Finnegan recently became Harvard’s …
Messy Questions, Messy Answers
… Some questions reveal more in the asking than in the answering. As I ranted about the impracticalities of unpaid internships, a friend interrupted, “Can you be on … Services for more than 13 years, she looked equally surprised: “No one has ever asked me that before.” Even my …
Issue: July-August 2011
Football 2021: Dartmouth 20, Harvard 17
… Halloween weekend was an appropriate time for the Harvard football team to continue its two-season Danse Macabre of close and excruciating defeat. This time, at least, the … Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens. “When you get into the meat of our schedule, it’s the thinnest of margins,” said Murphy …
Audience Response
… 47 when he had an epiphany: No critical comment from a professor could possibly be as instructive to an infant dramatist as the experience of staging a play and hearing, reading, rejoicing in, or …
Issue: November-December 2006
Hiram S. Hunn Awards
… Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards from the College’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid for their volunteer efforts …
Issue: November-December 2017
China’s Excess Wind Energy
… There’s a problem with sustainable energy, and it will only … time. Now that wind and solar have become cheaper sources of electricity than fossil fuels in some places, the problem … can alleviate some intermittency problems, but Butler professor of environmental studies Michael McElroy believes …
Issue: November-December 2021