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Skyscraper as Symbol
… A skyscraper , unlike a sculpture or painting, cannot be the work of a single artist. It arises from numerous contingencies and collaborations among …
Issue: May-June 2010
The Justice Gap
… Heber Smith published a landmark book called Justice and the Poor . It was about how people struggling economically … “Nothing rankles more in the human heart than the feeling of injustice.” At the time, there were only 41 legal-aid organizations in the country, with a total of about 60 lawyers. The Boston Legal Aid Society, founded …
Issue: November-December 2017
Passing the Baton
… H. Holton Wood '40 and some of his handmade batons (opposite) Photograph by Jim Harrison The distinctive top hats and tails worn by male members of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Committee for the …
Issue: May-June 2005
The Fiscal Crunch
… With no relief since the University’s early-December announcement that the … reported in much greater detail at the website): • Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) administrators assume its … years; the share funded by endowment distributions has risen from 35 percent a decade ago to 56 percent now. And …
Issue: March-April 2009
The Lucky Effect
… in a white coat tells you about Jane, who found $5 on the sidewalk; Johnny, who was splashed by a passing car; … don’t like ) or a large smiling face ( really like ) or one of four in-between faces. Which face would you pick? If … in a recent study of bias in children, you’ll surprise everyone with how much more you prefer the lucky to the …
Issue: March-April 2007
The Geeky Underground
… Before he was the acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles and … zine. Pronounced “zeen,” these self-published, often-low-budget magazines are staples in subcultures and …
Issue: July-August 2022
Congratulations to the Winner of Our Photo Sweepstakes!
… Congratulations to Betty Breck ’60, the winner of Harvard Magazine 's 2010 Commencement & Reunion Photo Sweepstakes. Breck, of Groton, South Dakota, was randomly selected to receive …
A More Generous, Capacious America
… When Werner Sollors was a boy, growing up among the ruins of postwar Germany, he had at best an indistinct idea of the distant country he would spend his adult life trying …
Issue: January-February 2025
The Law School Looks Ahead
… The future of professional education at Harvard promises much closer … in student-edited law reviews, now academic law is giving rise to peer-reviewed journals like those in the social and …
Issue: September-October 2001
The Pandemic’s Economic Fallout
… The coronavirus pandemic , which has caused U.S. GDP and … rates, left economists and policymakers blind at a moment of enormous strain for millions of workers, businesses, and government officials trying to …
Focusing on the Ph.D.
… During her tenure as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), from mid 2005 through last …
Issue: March-April 2008
Harvard Study: For Cost-effectiveness, Treat Half of U.S. Adults with Statins
… a major risk factor for heart disease, which is the leading cause of death in the United States. A new study by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) finds that statins, a class of …
A Decade of Faculty Diversity
… Every year , Harvard tracks the diversity of its faculties in terms of race and gender, with the goal of increasing its numbers …
Casing the Future
… For years, the "technology" of cases remained static. They were written documents consisting of text, tables, and illustrations. Today, however, …
Issue: September-October 2003
Out of Place?
… Imagine you are curator-in-chief of all of Harvard’s collections of tangible things and a donor … on view through May 29, principally at galleries of the Historical Scientific Instruments Collection in the …
Issue: March-April 2011