Search
No results matched your search. Please try something else!
Outdoor Smorgasbord
If your gustatory expectations are low, try Au Bon Pain for an outdoor lunch with sideshow. Taking up lots of Forbes Plaza, on the Massachusetts Avenue side of Holyoke Center, its tables afford a peerless vantage point on the Square and its folk. Sidewalk …
A Life's Study
Education is a lifelong process. Whatever our past experience of formal schooling, many of us have learned how useful--and how revitalizing--further education can be. In the form of mid-career programs, retraining, or graduate work that leads in an …
A CD Guide to Women's Health
In a simple but elegant first foray into electronic publishing, Harvard University Press has issued The Harvard Guide to Women's Health on CD-ROM. The original Guide , compiled by two doctors and a medical historian, draws on the expertise of many of the …
Off the Shelf
Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life, by Laurence Bergreen '72 (Broadway Books, $30). In the beginning, writes Bergreen, Armstrong was "only a sound, a strange blend of happy cacophony and tormented caterwauling....Duke Ellington said of his first …
Carved in Stone at the Post Office
Brian Burrell's The Words We Live By: The Creeds, Mottoes, Oaths, and Pledges That Have Shaped Our Nation (Free Press, $26) is an engaging omnium-gatherum of words to reckon with, ranging from the solemn creed of the Elvis Presley Impersonators …
A Formidable Woman
Harvard granted 6,102 degrees on June 5. No recipient had shown greater determination than Mary Fasano, A.A.E. '93, when she was closing in on her bachelor of liberal arts in extension studies degree. President Rudenstine saluted her during the morning …
School Days
Most Ivy League students have benefited from a first-rate education, not only of late but throughout our lives. Whether through family support, dedicated teachers, or privileged access to better schools, virtually all of us were fortunate enough to be …
Read Better, Sleep More
Last fall , I met a lot of confused first-years. I worked as a peer tutor at the College's Writing Center, helping undergraduates improve their academic writing. The vast majority of the 400 students who seek tutoring are freshmen grappling with the …
Footnotes: Frank Roosevelt at Harvard
This assessment appears in Geoffrey Ward's Before the Trumpet (Harper & Row, 1984), an invaluable source of material for this article. Other good accounts of Roosevelt's youth include Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Apprenticeship (Little, Brown, 1952), by the …
Roosevelts at Harvard: A Family Matter
James Roosevelt, Franklin's father, received his ll.b. from Harvard Law School in 1851. Theodore Roosevelt enrolled in the College in 1877, FDR in 1900. Thereafter, Roosevelts came to Harvard in droves. In 1936, the tercentennial year, when FDR ran for a …
Roosevelt History Month
In a tribute not previously accorded to an American president, Congress designated this October as "Roosevelt History Month." Such major institutions as the Library of Congress, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for …
Frank Roosevelt at Harvard
Even adversaries admired his way with words, and the "wise sauciness"—in Felix Frankfurter's phrase—with which he disarmed his critics. His speech at the 1936 Harvard Tercentenary was a famous example. "This meeting is being held," he began, in pursuance …
Crimson in Triumph Flashing
In 1858 the Harvard crew "were in the habit of rowing in their ordinary underclothing, wearing miscellaneous hats or caps," wrote Charles W. Eliot '53. Preparing for a big regatta in June, wanting onlookers to be able to distinguish the Harvard boat, crew …
When Harvard Was Upsized
Hate crowds , long lines, waiting lists? You'd have suffered mightily in the fall of 1946, when Harvard experienced a population explosion of unparalled proportions. That year's influx of 9,000 war veterans taxed University resources and altered the size …
Reactivating Activism
In early June , as the class of 1996 exchanged farewells, members of the class of 1971 reassembled in Cambridge to celebrate 25 years in the Real World. Many '71 grads raised clenched fists in greeting, a testament to the fiery emotions and turbulent …