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S-e-c-s Talk
… different. Those readers who turned to this space in the previous issue found, under the headline Sensational, Shocking Tabloid Run by Harvard Grad!, a profile of the editor of the National Enquirer, class of '79. … and proofreading for the class reports, unaided by copying machines, word processors, or computerized files. Pressure …
Refreshing the Fellows
… The President and Fellows of Harvard College, as the executive governing board of the University is officially titled, has returned to full …
The Real Dan Fenn
… Due to errors at the HAA, the entry about HAA Award winner Dan Huntington … the November-December issue contained flaws. In fact, Fenn, of Lexington, Massachusetts, has been a class secretary … 1946 and a former president and executive commitee member of the Association of Harvard College Class Secretaries. An …
Issue: January-February 2005
Baby, Maybe?
… In the summer of 2024, I spent a lot of time thinking about … near as large as Story’s, the classmates I spoke with surprised me with their confidence in their ability to balance … national public health strategy or to solve humanitarian crises as human rights attorneys. Their aspirations are not …
Issue: September-October 2025
Off the Shelf
… , photographs by Josie Iselin ’84, text by Margaret W. Carruthers (Abrams, $17.95). Here is an international gathering of rocks, tumbled by nature, beautifully photographed, and … transport you to the waterside straightaway. In Search of Willie Morris: The Mercurial Life of a Legendary Writer …
Issue: July-August 2006
The Prankster’s Secret
… in muted grays, stocking-caps, and ski-masks, review, for the umpteenth time, their plot. Lock-pick kit? Check. Map? Check. Camera? Frantically, one of the conspirators searches his seemingly countless … South of L___ house. 2:26 a.m. The section of tunnel that rises over the Charles, through ___ Bridge, eventually …
Issue: March-April 2004
The Way Forward
… What can Harvard learn from the administration of Lawrence H. Summers—cut short of its expected duration, and short of achieving many of its …
Issue: May-June 2006
The Peter Pan Myth, Reinvented
… The new musical theater production Finding Neverland, which … Theater on August 13, extends the century-old mythology of Peter Pan. The saga of the boy who would not grow up, with its crocodiles, …
Harvard’s Finances in a Challenging Year
… Harvard’s annual financial report for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2024, published today—an academic year of campus tumult, an overturned presidency, and speculation … circumstances. Revenues and expenses both continued to rise, again yielding an operating surplus (extending a …
Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg
Making Schools Work
… I n a taxi bound for the Pierre Hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Thomas Kane … and deliberate, punctuated by measured pauses. The Gale professor of economics and education is careful to avoid … of data like Legos, filling in gaps, and “finding surprises.” Using federal population surveys, provided at the …
Issue: March-April 2025
Off the Shelf
… Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self, by Gish Jen ’77, BI ’87, RI ’02 … and individual experience—and the Eastern narrative of her ancestry, grounded in morality and the recurrent … case anyone is listening. Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel, by Philip F. Gura ’72, Ph.D. ’77 …
Issue: March-April 2013
Devoted to Debt
… In the first quarter of 2011, the average American household carried $115,000 of mortgage, credit-card, and other forms of debt—a huge … “is America, and we can choose together to submit to it, or rise to its challenges, making what we will of its …
Issue: July-August 2011
Off the Shelf
… Inside the Hot Zone, by Mark G. Kortepeter ’83, M.P.H. ’95 (Potomac Books/University of Nebraska, $34.95). Now a public-health professor at the … at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet/Google analytics enterprise—a Rhodes Scholar, and former dean of the University of …
Issue: May-June 2020
The Volvocracy Votes
… The upper-middle-class alumni of select colleges might be … the "Volvocracy": those who rule from the driver's seats of their Volvos--or some other expensive import. They are …
Words of Wisdom at an Outdoor Baccalaureate
… On Wednesday, May 24, at the annual Baccalaureate ceremony, Lawrence S. Bacow … that you are all wearing,” he said, “a symbol not only of our membership in a community of learning but also of our experience these past four …