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“What Is the Competition for Homelessness?”
In its thirty-seventh decade as the archetypal nonprofit institution, Harvard has begun to take an academic interest in its own sector of society. At the Business School--best known for its work on profit-driven organizations--the Initiative on Social …
Changes to the Core Curriculum
At its May meeting, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted to add a new course requirement in Quantitative Reasoning to the Core Curriculum (see "Course Correction for the Core," May-June ). And, in an act of collective idealism tempered by fiscal …
Tenure and Gender
A tenure review, normally among the most discreet of Harvard procedures, erupted into loud, public controversy this spring. President Neil L. Rudenstine's April decision to deny tenure to associate professor Bonnie Honig, a political theorist, came at the …
“Empires of the Mind”
In keeping with this Commencement's international theme, President Neil L. Rudenstine's afternoon address focused on Harvard's global educational opportunities in a post-Cold War world transformed by economic, political, and technological change. Excerpts …
“The Man Thinking Club”
Anne Fadiman '74, who becomes editor of The American Scholar at the end of this year, was the 1997 Phi Beta Kappa orator. She spoke about the hazards of cultural politics. Recounting the myth of Procrustes, Fadiman warned against the tendency to reduce …
Commencement Confetti
QUINCY JONES'S MIDDLE NAME "Repeat after me," Class Day speaker Quincy Delight Jones Jr. told the audience of seniors and their families, who were standing and holding hands at his request. "On this day," Jones and the crowd recited, "I will mend a …
The Pathfinder Nation
During the past few years, we seem to have observed the fiftieth anniversary of everything. Through media and memory, we have again been witness to paratroopers filling the skies over Normandy, the liberation of Buchenwald, a sailor's kiss in Times …
Umm Kulthum Ibrahim
Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt, and the audience of Elvis, and you have Umm Kulthum, the most accomplished singer of her century in the Arab world. Born to a poor Qur'an …
Phenomenal Surfaces
Felice Frankel, who was at the time an accomplished photographer of landscape architecture, came to Harvard in 1991 as a Loeb Fellow. These open-sesame fellowships let professionals concerned with the built environment spend a year in mid career studying …
A Revival of Yiddish?
Aaron Lansky, who took his master's degree in east European Jewish studies in 1980 with Ruth Wisse at McGill, would seem at first glance living proof that Yiddish is indeed being revived. Lansky, who set off after graduate school to rescue Yiddish books …
What is Yiddish?
Yiddish was born in the Rhineland more than 900 years ago. A fusion of about 80 percent German and 20 percent Hebrew, it also has incorporated many words from the Romance and Slavic languages, and, in the last hundred years, from English. Max Weinreich, …
Mame-loshn at Harvard
"He who reads his people's literature in translation," said the Hebrew-Yiddish poet Chaim Nahman Bialik, "is like one who kisses his mother's face through a veil." True, Bialik, we might answer, but how else shall we read? Are we not orphans now, …
Rethinking Tenure
Tenure has become the abortion issue of the academy--a controversy marked by passion, polemics, and hardened convictions. The often shrill debate situates tenure as either the bulwark of academic freedom and economic security or the bane of institutional …
Tastes of the Town Dining Guide
THE ATRIUM DINING ROOM AT THE INN AT HARVARD, 1201 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, (617) 491-2222. Experience innovative New England cuisine in a beautiful courtyard setting. Validated parking with dinner. Breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, cocktails, and …
The Harvard Scene
EXHIBITIONS. At the Fogg, About Face: Artists' Portraits in Photography opens on July 19. Continuing exhibits include Fragments of Antiquity: Drawing upon Greek Vases ; The Art of Identity: African Sculpture from the Teel Collection; Investigating the …