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Calhoun-Fall
… Peter H. Wood ’64, Ph.D. ’72, an emeritus history professor at Duke University and former member of Harvard’s … Board of Overseers, submitted this essay reflecting on the recent removal of the massive John C. Calhoun statue in … moment for Calhoun-Fall had finally arrived. … 22638 … The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a …
The Boy’s Dilemma
… The idea that boys like to play with guns while girls prefer … Arkansas, and Colorado. Not one perpetrator in this string of schoolyard shootings has been female. It's not the presence of gun play in the lives of boys that causes real-life …
Rogoff: A Whiff of Inflation Now?
… Cabot professor of public policy Kenneth S. Rogoff , a member of the economics department widely known as co-author of This Time Is Different (read the Harvard Magazine review) —an economics bestseller about …
Off the Shelf
… , by Wendy Lesser ’73 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25). The founding editor of The Threepenny Review , addressing “the serious pleasure … steps through the modern era—what the subtitle labels “the rise and fall of U.S. intervention to protect American …
Issue: January-February 2014
"A Loomful of Hues"
… says. “Some are more practical in a city apartment than others, so perhaps that’s why weaving was the one I chose.” … somehow mindless.” She herself believes in the benefits of a broad education, but calls her time at Harvard “a sort of a detour”: a study of fibers and dyes derived from plants …
By the Book
… Harvard’s 364th was a mannerly , by-the-book Commencement. After a year of campus protests seeking divestment from fossil-fuel … eager-beaver M.B.A. candidates, directed by the provost to rise for their degrees, had already done so, as he observed; …
Issue: July-August 2015
Two Centuries of Sound
… On March 6, 1808, six men of Harvard formed the Pierian Sodality: the direct ancestor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, which this season …
Issue: May-June 2008
The '03 Scholars
… that is. Harvard boasted seven winners, one a double. The Marshall Scholars are seniors Christopher Laumann, a … Laumann '02 Eugenia Levenson '02 Jon Chase / Harvard News Office Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Below, are Canadian Rhodes winner and Harvard Medical …
Issue: March-April 2003
The Emergent Mind
… What goes on in the minds of babies? A lot, it turns out: long gone are the … the screen longer. The team says this shows babies were surprised by choices of objects that had previously required …
Issue: March-April 2018
The Honorands
… At the morning exercises of its 359th Commencement on May 27, … a majority had earned Harvard degrees earlier in life. They are listed here in alphabetical order, except for the … follow the biographical entries. Thomas R. Cech , Doctor of Science. A chemistry graduate of Grinnell College who …
How to Adapt to Climate Change
… her climate-resilient designs for urban parks, campuses, rooftops, and buildings in her native Thailand, where “living … affairs Niall Kirkwood put it in his introduction, “is the vernacular.” Residents of Bangkok, dubbed by Western … have become more intense. And last, there is sea-level rise, exacerbated in Bangkok by local subsidence of the land …
Shots in the Dark
… The Z closet in Houghton Library is called that because Z is not used in the accession codes for the ordinary run of items in the collection: rare books and manuscripts. The … Ruskin’s eyepiece, Charles Dickens’s walking cane, locks of various writers’ hair, a group of pencils made by Henry …
Issue: September-October 2006
Respecting the Future
… I doubt that I was the first farm boy accepted to Harvard University, but when … in Cambridge you certainly could have fooled me. Fresh off the tractor, with a farmer's tan and a head full of Republican idealism, I fancied myself quite the moral …
Issue: July-August 2003
Getting Close to the Past
… an important and timely book about race in America. But How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America is also a book about education: … instructor when he first felt compelled to investigate the often-obscured or distorted truths of American slavery and …
Issue: November-December 2021
Pottery Predates Agriculture
… The evidence that pottery predates agriculture received a powerful boost Thursday with the publication in Science of a discovery that pottery shards from Xianrendong Cave, an … agriculture, about 11,000 years ago, with the concomitant rise of sedentary communities characterized by complex …