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Of Religious Education and Rotten Cabbage
… Pop quiz: Who should be credited with the founding of Harvard College? No, not John Harvard. Try … and the Rotten Cabbage Rebellion of 1807. "We were very surprised by how serious the students were about [the class]," …
Issue: September-October 2002
The Table Is Set
… For the installation of its twenty-seventh president, Harvard displayed on a stage set up at the front of Tercentenary Theatre various sacred relics: the …
Issue: November-December 2001
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
Widening the College Pipeline
… college.” A visiting admissions recruiter told her about The Posse Foundation, an unusual college-access and … top-tier institutions within supportive groups—posses—of like-minded peers. The selection process is rigorous (typically fewer than 5 percent of the applicants are chosen) and uses a “dynamic …
Issue: July-August 2017
Taking the Plunge
… M cArthur University Professor Rebecca Henderson, a leading voice on climate change, teaches “Reimagining Capitalism” at the Business School: an immersion in “business and big … has synthesized her ideas about the role of private enterprises in solving them (in their own interest), in …
Issue: May-June 2020
Genius at the School Gates
… Lady Novelists are a genus with many species, determined by the particular quality of silliness that predominates in them—the frothy, the … to avoid association with the more frivolous writers of her sex. “Gender issues have plagued the arts from time …
A World of Literature
… The résumé of Harvard’s Bernbaum professor of comparative literature might create the … taking classes and concentrating in literature has risen modestly, bucking the trend across the humanities: …
Issue: September-October 2019
Letters from Readers
… page 42) with a friend and fellow Harvard graduate (class of 2003). We thought Keohane nicely described the tension between the life of action and the need for … from Elizabeth Gudrais’s discussion of The End of Big ( “Rise of the Little Guy,” September-October, page 13), author …
Issue: November-December 2013
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 …
On the Team
… Making the cut for the New England Patriots' cheerleading squad is … competed when the group last held tryouts. Now she is one of the youngest of the 35-woman team. De Santis had no plans to follow the …
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
Your Brain on Exercise
… that people who exercise are at greatly reduced risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Lab work in mice has shown that they also grow more new neurons that are involved in … human irisin is identical, and blood levels of the hormone rise in both in response to endurance exercise. Wrann was a …
Issue: January-February 2022
Ben Bradlee ’43 to Receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom
… In 1963, President John F. Kennedy ’40, LL.D. ’56, signed the executive order establishing the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, which is … contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or …
Twitters, Titters, and The Onion
… You’re saying , “Not another one of these techno-geeky black guys with political … ( baratunde.com/blog ) has a job that taps his triad of passions: since 2007, he’s been Web and political editor …
Issue: September-October 2009
Of Rain and Rivers
… It was a dark and stormy night. Rain fell steadily on rooftops, down gutters, along streets and sidewalks. It poured into drains, where it joined the current already rushing through the pipes beneath the … streets. Invisibly, the rain water became a nasty cocktail of toxins as it flowed along. The combination of rain and …
Issue: January-February 2003