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The First Jubilee
On November 29, 1998, with the papal bull Incarnationis Mysterium , Pope John Paul II officially declared the Great Jubilee of the year 2000. According to Catholic doctrine, believers who perform certain acts of devotion during a jubilee (or Holy Year) …
Back to Basics
In the liner notes to the John Adams Earbox, 10 compact discs of works, primarily orchestral, by John Adams '69, A.M. '72, the composer recounts how minimalism--a musical style that features simple harmonies and repetitive motifs--came to influence his …
Off the Shelf
Linnaeus: Nature and Nation , by Lisbet Koerner, Ph.D. '93, associate of the department of the history of science (Harvard University Press, $39.95). Swedish-born botantist and systematizer Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is one of the most famous naturalists …
America's Open Door
Heaven's Door is George J. Borjas's second major work on the economic consequences of the great wave of immigration into the United States of the last 30 years--a flow that gives no sign of moderating in the foreseeable future, short of major policy …
Code Is Law
Every age has its potential regulator, its threat to liberty. Our founders feared a newly empowered federal government; the Constitution is written against that fear. John Stuart Mill worried about the regulation by social norms in nineteenth-century …
Fustiness in the Fine Arts Department
Fairfield Porter '28 was a realist painter in the midst of the abstract expressionist movement. He had an emotionally complex life. Although he married, stayed married, and had five children, he was bisexual; indeed, one of his lovers, poet James …
John Harvard
John Harvard's name is so familiar that it may come as a surprise to learn how much of a man of mystery he is. Most graduates of the university that bears his name know that no picture or physical description of him survives, so it is impossible to know …
Chapter & Verse
James McCourt seeks a source for "The problem with the 'melting pot' theory is that those on the bottom get burned and the scum rises to the top." Stephen Minot wants to know who wrote, "The frost is gone, the trees are greening now/This season rides the …
The Law School and the Law
Rest assured, Harvard Law School is still teaching the law by the Socratic method--even over the Internet. "I've just started this privacy course," Bromley professor of law Arthur R. Miller, LL.B. '58, explained last spring. "The first attempt to use the …
Getting Lost
Last summer , my college friends got lost around the world. One roamed the shadowy tunnels of Mayan ruins in Copan, while another hopped from train to bus to cab in a bewildered search for a route between Tokyo's Narita Airport and Yokosuka Naval Base. I, …
Love Stories
The film Love Story --the tale of a Harvard boy and a Radcliffe girl drawn irresistibly together despite disparate backgrounds--opened in 1971 and became a box-office hit. Nearly 30 years later, hundreds of Harvard students fill Science Center lecture …
South by North Harvard
Might the University's center of gravity move one day from Harvard Yard south to the Charles River? Perhaps, if some of Harvard's options for academic growth over the next half-century become reality. A University physical-planning committee charged with …
Saying Good-bye
My Aunt Marie always leaves without saying good-bye. We will have finally finished eating turkey, or opening presents, or wishing "Happy New Year," and someone always says, "Where is Aunt Marie?" She is gone, of course; she hates to say good-bye. I can't …
The Networked Student
The paradox of the technologically sophisticated undergraduate is the simultaneous desire for nomadic independence and comprehensive connectivity. Independence comes from the portability of cellular phones, pagers, laptop computers, and palm-sized digital …
Help Wanted
When undergraduates heard that Dean of the College Harry Lewis '68 was forming a student-faculty committee to examine the advising and counseling system, a common reaction was, "It's about time." Many of us have complained grumpily-to each other in …