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… 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
Debora L. Spar: “The Woman’s Problem”
… Debora L. Spar grew up in the 1970s, a time when women finally had a voice and an opportunity to move up in the professional world. She thought life would be like “the … job. “We had this idea that we would just waltz into the professional world and it would just work out,” Spar told an …
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… and Wang, $30; $13.95 paper). Think “Healthcare reform: the comic book.” An illustrated guide to the new law by the MIT professor of economics who advised former Massachusetts … From the scale of the universe to the molecules that gave rise to life, the director of Harvard’s origins of life …
Issue: January-February 2012
AI Anxiety
… is successful, and three areas for potential improvement.” The machine spat out an answer instantly, and as I watched … 10 seconds. Not all the advice was useful, but as a semi-professional writer and editor, I felt reasonably confident … this paper was years old, and I used AI to revise it out of curiosity. I abide by the Harvard honor code, and all the …
Issue: March-April 2025
Spheres of Knowledge
… The sixteenth century marked the beginning of modern scientific exploration. Instead of relying principally on classical accounts of the natural …
Jennifer Carling , Jonathan Shaw
Issue: November-December 2011
Rose-Colored Passes
… The translation of Neil Rose from benchwarmer to record-breaking passer was completed in a span of less than 13 minutes. In that interval, quarterback Rose … bungled extra-point snap and running it back 85 yards. Surprise! Harvard's first touchdown in the Brown game came on a …
Chronicler of Two Americas
… I first met Daniel Aaron 23 years ago. He was almost 80 then, retired for several years from his professorship at Harvard: a lean, fit, cheerful man, with a … book’s final pages, Dan, warily alert, registers his surprise at the many advantages life has bestowed upon him: “I …
Issue: November-December 2015
The Mediatrician
… This past June , the U.S. Supreme Court decided that violent video games posed no more danger to children than the grimmest of Grimms’ fairy tales. At issue was a California ban of the sale of violent video games to minors—and seven of …
Issue: November-December 2011
The Venture-Capital University
… Research universities are the world’s great venture capitalists for investments in … human capital—that is, knowledge. Harvard enrolls thousands of students, each of whom is a “project.” Students acquire human capital, an …
Issue: September-October 2011
Cambridge 02138
… Against Harvard Magazine previously published a selection of letters received immediately after President Alan M. Garber refused to accept the Trump administration’s demands. Read those letters here … was enlightening and also worrisome. However, I was surprised at the lack of inclusion of statistics on psychiatric …
Issue: July-August 2025
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
Mapping Cultural Change
… The U.S. Census gathers a wealth of demographic data, … when they don’t agree with the viewpoint of the speaker—has risen steadily for most of the survey term, but that trend …
Issue: November-December 2012
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
Rose Is a Rose...
… In light of Radcliffe College's 1999 transformation... … 60 … Rose Is …
Making Music Out of DNA Loops
… There is music in DNA loops. The genome, which otherwise would be the height of a refrigerator, folds into a microscopic bundle inside the nucleus of a cell, knitting itself into “loops” of genetic …
Issue: September-October 2023