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Tom Reiss ’86 Wins Pulitzer for Biography
… For telling the long-overlooked story of Alex Dumas, the French … Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Crown) “a compelling story of a forgotten …
Curricular Conundrums
… During the past decade, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has … for undergraduates’ course of study. At present, Gen Ed comprises eight courses intended to lift young scholars’ eyes …
Issue: March-April 2016
Harvard Sustainability Report Updated
… The University has released an updated sustainability report … goals and detailing a strategy. (The plan, officials said, aligned Harvard’s decentralized campus … measures implemented.) According to the report, 98 percent of Harvard’s emissions are associated with heating and …
Undergraduate Scribes
… Hudson Teslik and sophomore Rebecca Davis O'Brien. Teslik, of Washington, D.C., and Currier House, has just completed a … and literature concentration; volunteered as a teacher with the Balkan Sunflowers group in Pristina, Kosovo; and … the magazine's editors had the unique experience of conducting their fellowship interviews with Teslik by …
Issue: September-October 2003
Chapter & Verse
… “pot…wall” (September-October). Eliot Kieval recognized the query as a variant of “Strive not as doth a crocke with a wall,” from Geoffrey Chaucer’s short poem “Good Counsel.” “Age is a thief” …
Issue: January-February 2008
“Cleat” Hands Off
… Among many other accomplishments, John T. Bethell, this magazine’s editor from 1966 through 1994, covered a lot of Harvard football games. He began writing, beautifully, … about the sport he loves, in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin of September 20, 1971, reporting on new coach Joe Restic’s …
Issue: September-October 2014
Back-to-School Bookshelf
… in his career as a leader in American higher education. The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges (Princeton, $29.95) is the most recent in his long series of distinguished analyses: critiques that credit the value of higher education by treating its flaws seriously and …
Issue: September-October 2017
HarvardX Announces Fall Courses
… announced its fall 2013 online courses, available through the edX platform , the University’s massive online open course (MOOC) partnership with MIT. The dozen offerings, ranging from term-length courses to short … (restricted-enrollment module), K. Michael Hays, Noyes professor of architectural theory, Graduate School of Design …
Gould Goods
… The late Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)—Agassiz professor of zoology, paleontologist, theorist of evolutionary …
Issue: January-February 2012
Connections and Competition in Asia
… to Hong Kong and South Korea over spring break I had the privilege of seeing how much Harvard means to our alumni in other parts of the world. More than 400 alumni gathered for a reception …
Issue: May-June 2013
Decanal Duo
… Konovalovia/A Dream Picture Kathleen McCartney , Lesser professor in early childhood development and since July 2005 acting dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education, was named to the deanship on May 16 by President Lawrence H. Summers. …
Issue: July-August 2006
On Public Service
… When I became president of Harvard I had the privilege of getting to know Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. We would meet …
Issue: January-February 2015
Physical Educator
… Developing Smart Bells® took him more than 10 years. The former captain of Harvard's wrestling team, a 1984 U.S. Olympic-team … so he developed a new exercise routine combining elements of dance, weightlifting (using a barbell disk), and Eastern …
Issue: May-June 2002
Oasis in Limestone and Brick
… Amid the aging bodegas, discount shops, and anonymous towers of … and irregular, arresting yet unobtrusive. “It’s a function of wanting to make something that fits as comfortably as …
Issue: September-October 2011
Meet Him in St. Louis
… Scott Miller ’86 dreams of producing an absurdist musical called Promenade. The author, Maria Irene Fornés, recorded a series of nouns … and lyricist about getting the rights. They were surprised but thrilled that he wanted to resuscitate their show. …
Issue: March-April 2016