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… The curator of the Lee Family Hall of Athletic History, at the Murr Center, …
Issue: September-October 2003
At Home with Harvard: The Undergraduate
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …
Made in the U.S.A.
… The phrase “The Great American Novel” means something more than the sum of its parts. There are plenty of great American novels that … qualify, and neither does Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises , or Willa Cather’s The Lost Lady , even though …
Issue: January-February 2014
Off the Shelf
… Who the Hell Are We Fighting? The Story of Sam Adams and the … Press , $25.95). Here’s a tightly written narrative history of what happened when the late CIA analyst Samuel A. Adams …
Issue: May-June 2006
Financial Aid Refigured
… The College announced two significant changes to financial aid on September 1. As of September 2012, families with incomes below $65,000 will … for tuition, room, and board ($52,652 now) will continue to rise. Part of the aid, in turn, is funded by the …
Issue: November-December 2011
An Overview of Long-term-care Insurance
… What follows is a summary of information about long-term-care insurance (frequently … as LTCi). For an inexpensive brochure on buying LTCi, call the National Council on Aging at 800-373-4906. For details … about LTC ." Benefits: Benefits are expressed in terms of cost per day, with the buyer selecting the amount at time …
Issue: July-August 2004
"First Day of School" for Engineering
… With speeches and feasting, Harvard celebrated the launch of its new School of Engineering and Applied … “through it all, Harvard’s engineering and technology enterprise, whatever people have cared to call it at any given …
Issue: November-December 2007
Where the Girls Are
… Brearley, Chapin, and Spence, but she had no desire to join their ranks. "The whole girls' school thing seemed kind of precious," recalls DeBare, who now lives in Oakland, … the publication of her book, Where Girls Come First: The Rise, Fall, and Surprising Revival of Girls' Schools (J.P. …
Issue: May-June 2004
Off the Shelf
… Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, by Ross Gregory Douthat … "Harvard was not what I had expected: It was not a refuge of genius and a sanctuary of intellect. Instead, it was …
Issue: March-April 2005
Mastering in the '70s
… In the spring of 1973 Harvard president Derek Bok asked my husband, Jim Vorenberg, to be master of Dunster House. We had been married three years and had … current randomized system.) Black students found the high-rise towers of Leverett and Mather Houses and Currier, the …
Issue: September-October 2002
Stories of a Not-So-Distant War
… Ganeshananthan ’s first novel, Love Marriage , came out in the early spring of 2008, Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war—the conflict at the heart of the book’s plot—seemed to have ossified into something …
Issue: May-June 2023
In Russia, Economic and Political Effects of the Holocaust Linger
… Nazi germany's occupation of parts of Russia had lasting and quantifiable effects, Florence … coauthors conclude in a working paper published in June by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Working with Daron …
The New Crew
… Barton ’24 and Isabella Cho ’24 to its editorial staff as the 2023-2024 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows. … the November-December issue, they will alternate as authors of the “Undergraduate” column, contributing articles in … policy, and previously interned at the American Enterprise Institute’s poverty studies department and in the …
Issue: September-October 2023
The Fells
… On a Sunday afternoon, 20 people troop gamely into the Middlesex Fells Reservation for a free “Tree Walk” with … Along the Dark Hollow Pond Trail, in the Stoneham section of the park, he points out a “forest seep community” rich with ferns, a grove of beeches, and a sunnier swath conducive to pignut hickory …
Issue: September-October 2018
The Seven Liberal Arts
… These photographs show Jan Sadeler’s engravings of The Seven … to Susan Dackerman’s catalog for Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe , even though the …