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Honoring Artemis
… prefacing her new collection, After Callimachus: Poems, professor of English Stephanie Burt writes, “These pages reflect, interpret, adapt, respond to, and …
Chapter & Verse
… Jeffrey Tigay hopes someone can provide the source of an anecdote involving a Latin correspondence … by replying with a single letter, i (Go!—the imperative of ire ). Wayles Brown asks whether William S. Gilbert was …
Issue: September-October 2017
Chapter & Verse
… Whitefoord Cole requests the name of the author and full text of the fragment “Would that I may awake from my wine-sleep, …
Issue: July-August 2009
Bears, Oars, Metaphors
… While studying with Kurt Vonnegut at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the late 1960s, John Casey ’61, LL.B. ’65, enjoyed quite a range of experiences. A neighboring farmer taught him to castrate … to his Uncle Drew, a highly cultured gay man and denizen of the Left Bank who, with two of his equally cosmopolitan …
Issue: September-October 2014
Harvard Scares Michigan State
… With a stunning 29-11 run in the second half, the Harvard men’s basketball team brought … one was taking them lightly. Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, one of the college game’s top coaches, said he didn’t relish … a roll, using their speed and size to convert an early rash of Harvard turnovers into fast-break points. State’s …
Very Young Beauty Queens
… Some distress here: on the stage, the two-year-old girl in the pink-sequined dress … The mother takes the tot by the hand and drags her off. Meanwhile an announcer offers some background: this young contestant hails from …
Changemaker in Admissions
… The fourth of seven children, David L. Evans grew up in Arkansas in one of the nation’s poorest counties. His grandmother was born into …
Issue: September-October 2020
Approaching Arabic
… Without knowing the language of a people, we never really know their thoughts, their feelings, and their type of character,” John Stuart Mill said in his first speech as …
Thought, Feeling, and Purpose
… A decade after the Harvard Divinity School’s founding in 1816, William Ellery Channing spoke at the dedication of Divinity Hall. “We want more than knowledge,” he said. “We want force of thought, feeling, and purpose . . . We want powerful …
Issue: September-October 2016
Fitness: Body and Mind
… effects on mental acuity and motor ability, says professor of molecular and cellular biology Joshua Sanes , director of the Center for Brain Science . But just how these changes …
Issue: November-December 2010
Tyrant Tales
… be, you know, relevant ? Count on Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt, the formidable Shakespeare scholar, to enter the fray. Close on the heels of his volume about the Adam and Eve myth (see “Always …
Issue: May-June 2018
Solar Sculptor
… On the front lawn of the U.S. vice-presidential residence in Washington, D.C., … from the nation’s most precise clock, sits another type of timepiece. Its measurements are approximate, its hour …
Issue: May-June 2008
Broad Institute Researchers Find New Method to Edit RNA
… A team of scientists led by Feng Zhang ’04 of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT announced Thursday …
Chapter & Verse
… Laurinda Morway writes, “Years ago an author described the phenomenon of hearing or seeing something for the first time and then … in the dark,” or “a more popular variation: ‘I’m not afraid of the dark. I’m afraid of the things moving around in the …
Issue: September-October 2019
Eeded: Ew President
… In the spring of 1970 the Fellows of the College began a search for a successor to …