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… Essays on History, by Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor emeritus (Knopf, $28). A superb argument for anthologizing essays, here by the preeminent historian of early America, on two themes: … in Modern History,” an illuminating dissection of the rise of and uses of quantification, spatial relationships …
Issue: March-April 2015
Centuries of Flowers
… The disruptions resulting from World War II and its … extended to European gardens, including “a large majority of the great historical examples of garden design,” as John S. Thatcher, a former director of …
Issue: November-December 2013
One Hundred Years of Educating Educators
… members, and educationally minded visitors packed into the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Askwith Hall for the HGSE Centennial Kickoff … more complicated than the CEO of a large multi-unit enterprise,” he said. Long nodded. “Yes,” she said simply, with a …
Reflections of Pandemic Intimacy
… Katherine Bradford’s color-saturated works often feature bold, … or human bodies lodged within an amorphous frame of time and space. One recent painting, Mother’s Lap, …
Issue: September-October 2021
A Brain from a Blue Cooler Box
… when I hear that physicists in Geneva flashed beams of particles round a town-wide circle, smashed them together, and found God. It isn’t God. What they … hadron colliders, they have statistics and sometimes MRI machines. Thinking about thinking is troublesome. It takes …
Issue: May-June 2018
Harvard Slavery Descendants Program: What’s Next?
… A month after the University laid off the staff of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program (HSRP), which for …
The Omicron Semester
… As the Omicron variant spread at year-end, Harvard announced a rapid-fire set of measures to control community transmission. Highlights … that in light of the surge—weekly average cases had risen from 52 during the fall, when the campus was fully …
Issue: March-April 2022
Gary Urton Stripped of Emeritus Status
… In a June 10 email to affiliates of the anthropology department, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Peabody Museum, Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine Gay announced that she …
The Developing Child
… teacher Patricia Pérez is reading to her class. The story involves a pig who wants to impress a lady friend … has not, in Latin America in general, been thought of as education ,” says Graham professor of education Catherine Snow. “The approach is: Let …
Issue: March-April 2009
The Complete Works of Du Fu, China’s Shakespeare, Published in English
… As Shakespeare is to literature in English , so is the poet Du Fu to the Chinese literary tradition. He wrote … to modern Chinese readers in a way that English literature of that period—think Beowulf —is not available to readers of modern English. Du Fu, in fact, is still widely quoted in …
The Unstoppable Botterill
… With eight minutes gone in sudden-death overtime and the 1999 national women's hockey title at stake, A.J. … is the best skater in the world, with the best skating form of any woman you'll ever see," says her Harvard coach, Katey … that skating was what I absolutely loved to do." Quelle surprise. In twelfth grade Botterill moved to Calgary, where …
A Yardstick of Service
… to just how limited my worldview was when I studied there, and how little I knew about the terrible problems and … more focused on the wider world beyond the confines of Cambridge. More faculty members are concentrating on … the inexpensive “lab-on-a-chip” medical diagnostic devices of George Whitesides, are leading to breakthroughs in …
Issue: September-October 2011
Off the Shelf
… The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s, by Werner Sollors, Cabot professor of English … and our local, state, and federal governments.” The Rise of Western Power: A Comparative History of Western …
Issue: July-August 2014
Harvard A Cappella, From the Top
… On any given weeknight around 10 P.M. in the 1960s, a passerby outside Dunster House might have overhead a group of young men harmonizing and laughing along to slightly … twenty-somethings who felt as though they were on top of the world. As described by a 1963 Harvard Crimson review …
The Purely Pragmatic University
… face exceptional opportunities and exceptional risks. Their research is needed more than ever, now that new … sudden change, adults in many occupations and many stages of life are returning to campus for further study. Many of … to pursue private ventures at a cost to the common enterprise. Once profit-seeking increases throughout the …
Issue: May-June 2003