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Love’s Labors
… fell suddenly in love—with a man she’d known for decades. They had worked together in an MIT lab during the 1960s and … respective families. But by the time they took serious note of each other’s romantic appeal, in 1990, both were … thanks to a steady divorce rate, increasing longevity, the rise of financially independent women, and waning stigmas …
Issue: March-April 2009
Grinding Out Lawyers—by Grinding Down Students
… Judge Learned Hand recalled that his Harvard Law School professors taught him the Spartan ethic which helped make him a legal giant. “In the universe of truth,” he said in 1958, during a public lecture, “they …
Issue: January-February 2021
Deep Cravings
… The bombshell dropped in 1976, when "The Natural History of … gamblers may support Bergman's notion. "Gambling at slot machines seems to have more addictive potential than table …
Allston: The Killer App
… In the quarter-century since Harvard first perceived that its … management time—together totaling at least hundreds of millions of dollars; academic planning spanning parts of … could be privately financed; so could a proposed "enterprise research campus"—a commercial business park—at the …
Publishing “The Harvard Advocate” Despite the Pandemic
… The Harvard Advocate , a venerable publication now 154 years … old, has published writers who have gone on to form much of the American literature we know in the twentieth century: … to this new reality on the fly. “With the sudden transition off-campus in March, members of the magazine found …
The Richness of Nature at Large
… Editor’s note: Spencer Lenfield ’12 reported on the unique loan of Itō Jakuchū’s magnificent works to the National Gallery … this is his dispatch. The 30 paintings that comprise the mid-eighteenth-century Japanese painter Itō …
Vivek Murthy on the “Vision and Values” of Medicine
… Vivek Murthy ’98, this year’s student choice as the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) Class Day speaker , urged the 160 … explore new ideas and to seek fulfillment in their professional choices. Murthy invited the class of 2014 to let …
A Fiscal Faustian Bargain
… The nomination of Boston as the U.S. host city for the 2024 summer Olympics preceded much public discussion of the potential benefits and costs. Andrew Zimbalist, Ph.D. … the U.K. This suggests that foreign investment should have risen in 2013. In fact, it fell by £900 million. More …
Issue: July-August 2015
The New Medicine
… Seeking to make the most of new scientific opportunities in an era of rising … compounds emerging from laboratories. But questions have arisen about quality and conflicts of interest in the …
Does Money Matter?
… These days , super PACs (political action committees) don’t … support from one, while his money-flush rivals dropped off one after another. Jeb Bush fizzled out in February when the $100 million spent by his Right to Rise super PAC failed to generate liftoff. Marco Rubio threw …
Issue: July-August 2016
Off the Shelf
… Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals, by William … suicide in 1920 led administrators to identify a group of gay or presumed gay undergraduates. A secret court of …
Issue: November-December 2005
All in a Day: Hull’s Lifesaving Legacy
… The best route to Hull is by boat. As the MBTA’s commuter … passengers can eye the treacherous shipping route that gave rise to the town’s Point Allerton Lifesaving Station in … community had no more than 300 residents; at least a third of them were involved in volunteer lifesaving,” notes …
Issue: September-October 2015
Lady Godiva: The Naked Truth
… Staggering beneath the yoke of oppressive taxes, the medieval residents of Coventry, England, pleaded in vain for relief. …
Issue: July-August 2003
A Transformative Gift of Dutch Drawings
… The Harvard Art Museums have received 330 … to the museum, the finest private collection of such images anywhere—from George Abrams ’54, J.D. ’57. … Harvard and the Boston area as a top site for the study of Dutch art outside Europe. Almost exactly 25 years ago, …
The Pragmatist
… university , Lawrence S. Bacow famously invited members of the community to join him on early-morning runs: a chance to … obviously also apply to operating long-established enterprises that meld together research, professional training, …
Issue: September-October 2018