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The Eugenic Temptation
… The full-page advertisement in the Harvard Crimson a year ago came as no surprise. The text was straightforward: Intelligent, Athletic … medical issues. It was only the latest in a steady stream of smaller ads with similar messages--"healthy Caucasian," …
A Sino-American “Contest for Supremacy”
… In A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia (Norton, $27.95), Aaron … Friedberg ’78, Ph.D. ’86, dissects the present and future of Sino-American relations, stating that “despite several … columnist and author of When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World …
Pandemic in the Workplace
… tentative steps toward reopening, a pertinent study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health suggests that workplace transmission of the coronavirus accounted for 48 percent of the initial …
The Allure of Japanese Prints
… Drawing from the Harvard Art Museums’ extensive collection of Japanese … modern portraits. The innovative artist Suzuki Harunobu, of the Edo era, was especially known for his renderings of …
Issue: May-June 2019
The Undiscovered Planet
… Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton— these are familiar names. During a 150-year span in the … that placed the sun, rather than the earth, at the center of things astronomical. But have you ever heard of Carl … that these molecules may have appeared as a response to the rise of oxygen in the atmosphere, so the timing of their …
Issue: November-December 2007
The "New Normal"
… reversals, President Drew Faust delivered an “opening-of-year” address in Sanders Theatre on September 24, in lieu of the e-mail messages sent … declined in fiscal year 2009; that current-use giving had risen, but that gift income overall, as reported, had …
Issue: November-December 2009
Working at Beauty
… O ne of the more frustrating things about learning math is that professors insist it is beautiful. Imagine not just asking … classrooms a short walk from the math department coffee machines, and try to pull beauty out of a pile of preprints. …
Issue: January-February 2020
Center of Attention
… Amid Harvard’s vast Commencement spectacle, the formal center—on the dais constructed beside Memorial … still the venue for small gestures that go to the heart of the University and its people. Herewith, a close reading of some 2011 events not prescribed by the “Form of …
Issue: July-August 2011
Endowment Expectations
… Following the near-record 33.6 percent investment return on endowment … in fiscal 2022—when financial markets took account of the pandemic stimulus and rising inflation, and the … to suggest that UVIMCO’s fund managers were perhaps surprised, like many institutional investors, by the outsized …
Drying Out "The Game"
… Reacting swiftly to the alcohol-related problems at last November's edition of The Game (see "Unsavory Record," January-February, page … for future contests at Harvard Stadium. In December, dean of the College Harry R. Lewis let it be known that …
Issue: November-December 2001
The Ethanol Illusion
… Americans annual consumption of gasoline (for both private and commercial transportation) … to 500 gallons for every man, woman, and child in the country. With gasoline prices up by almost a third over … gallon. Yet by May 2006, the wholesale price of ethanol had risen to $2.65 a gallon (or in reality $3.16 a gallon, if …
Issue: November-December 2006
And the War Came
… We are in the midst of a perfect storm of new Civil War books. With the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth in 2009 and this …
Issue: March-April 2011
A Slowing China
… Central bankers around the world have been criticized for not raising their … rates in lockstep with the United States, but Boas professor of international economics Kenneth Rogoff points out … place. Although “we’re not going to start producing washing machines in the U.S. overnight,” notes Rogoff, “seasoned …
Issue: November-December 2022
Birth of a Feminist
… girl even if I felt more like a displaced adolescent. My mother had advised me to study home economics at Brooklyn … been right. The author's photograph in the Radcliffe class of 1958's Freshman Register Photograph courtesy of Ann R. … hours later I would join the 266 other girls who would comprise the class of '58. Yes, all the publications of the …
Issue: March-April 2005
Labor of Love
… Fred Crafts ’50 was six when in 1935 his father first took him hunting on Monomoy, which juts into Nantucket Sound “at the elbow of Cape Cod some 70 miles southeast of Boston,” as he puts it in the introduction to his first …
Issue: May-June 2016