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Boosting Science as Sequestration Looms
… The American Association for the Advancement of Science … president Drew Faust was among those greeting the hundreds of AAAS members involved in the organization’s mission to …
Erbaluce’s Simple Elegance
… Village, chef Charles Draghi , A.L.B. ’92, roasts slices of it to a custard-like consistency, wraps them around fresh ricotta, then drapes the soft mound with warm dark chocolate ganache garnished with …
Issue: January-February 2012
Daniel Aaron Sampler
… Sinclair Lewis April 16: Join Day Tuttle (Smith College theater department), who has planned a visit to South Williamstown to discuss dramatization of Kingsblood Royal. We arrive at “Thorvale” (large spacious white house inside 800 acres of hilly land at the base of the Taconic Trail). Lewis …
Issue: November-December 2015
Brotherly Love
… In The Big House , George Howe Colt ’76 mined family memory in a bestselling portrait of a beloved summer home. Now, in Brothers: On His Brothers … believed Harry could do anything, I wouldn’t have been surprised if the car had somehow started, the garage door had …
Issue: January-February 2013
Sleuths in Love
… Flattened by a cold in 1998, Eric Lerner ’71, then a Hollywood screenwriter, picked up a biography of Allan Pinkerton, founder of the first detective agency in the United States. Three …
Issue: May-June 2008
Between Nature and Culture
… As part of a celebration of a century of the teaching of landscape architecture at Harvard, a large gathering at the School of Design considered how Holliston, …
Toward a “Modified Honor Code”?
… At the April 2 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting, … where discussion about administrative investigations of resident deans’ e-mail accounts dominated the day’s business , dean of undergraduate education Jay M. …
Apocrypha Now
… What is a heterodox text like the Acts of Philip doing in an orthodox bastion like Mount … Religious literature flourished in the first centuries of the Christian era, Bovon explains. The organized church …
When free isn't free...
… to our highest standards) an email information service All of those efforts entail costs; none of them generates significant revenue. We thus share the …
"You Foolish Parents..."
… Parents could find guidance about what sort of allowance to provide their Harvard-bound children in the "Palmer Pamphlet." Professor George H. Palmer surveyed the class of 1887 by …
Tiny Brontës
… At top is a page , actual size, of a miniature manuscript book, written with a sharp eye and a steady hand and stitched together in 1830 by Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855). The page is … so that ordinary people may read it. It is the beginning of a novelette Brontë called “An interesting passage in the …
Issue: January-February 2012
Lighting Up Mount Auburn Street
… As the Harvard Art Museums announced their long awaited re-opening with a series of community celebrations —catered events, held beneath the cathedral heights of the glass ceiling designed by Renzo Piano—another Harvard …
Issue: January-February 2015
Thesis Talk
… Last spring, when words like "thesis," "Commencement," and "post-graduate" began seeping into my heretofore unfazed, live-in-the-semester college-kid vocabulary, I realized that I was at the beginning of the end of my undergraduate career. T minus one year and …
Issue: September-October 2002
VES’s Valedictory
… Harvard’s department of visual and environmental studies (VES) will emerge, like … new identity better reflecting what it actually does , if the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) embraces a proposal to change its …
Next Harvard House Renovation: McKinlock Hall
… With renovation of Old Quincy slated to begin next summer, Faculty of Arts … Harvard College dean Evelynn Hammonds announced today that the next pilot project for renewal of undergraduate … our efforts on the design of residential spaces, which comprise more than 75 percent of spaces within the Houses. The …