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Stop—and Ponder—the Presses
… Tours of the Museum of Printing , in Haverhill, Massachusetts, begin, naturally, … Romano says—including one of only 50 working linotype machines in the country. That revolutionary invention, …
Issue: January-February 2025
Engines of Change
… Has barbed wire ever been portrayed more glamorously than in the prettily framed advertising poster above for the I.L. Ellwood Company? A fence of the material, built to protect one’s livestock from … was complete. The editors of the exhibition sum up: “The rise of modern American capitalism, enabled by the expansion …
Issue: January-February 2014
Yesterday's News
… 1921 As of January 1, Harvard Yard is closed to automobiles, on the grounds that traffic is dangerous on such narrow roads … students about factual issues. Undergraduate tuition will rise from $2,600 to $2,800 per year in 1971-72--the third …
AI: The Course
… With the launch of its first overview course on artificial … produced by humans. From the first meeting of Gen Ed 1188: “Rise of the Machines? Understanding and Using Generative AI,” students …
Issue: May-June 2024
Above and Beyond
… Beyondorders.org helps U.S. service members “rise above the call of duty” to aid Iraqi civilians. Tin-Yun Ho ’07 (’08) …
Issue: May-June 2008
A Visit from Bill Gates
… Harvard students got a thrill on Thursday when Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07, came to campus. After touring the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied … flat. Meanwhile, pension and healthcare costs continue to rise, putting pressure on other parts of state budgets. That …
Computing in the Classroom
… On November 11, 1953, psychology professor B.F. Skinner sat in a fourth-grade math class, … It was Parents Day at his daughter Deborah’s school. The lesson seemed grossly inefficient: students proceeded … for the Ludic Century,” Zimmerman argues that the rise of computers parallels the resurgent cultural interest …
Issue: March-April 2015
Lasting Impressions
… Eliot '10 had his shoes not shined but boned, polished with the downy side of the femur of an elk or deer, a tool of atavistic … merger in which a new science and engineering campus would rise across the Charles River, where the business school is …
Paths of Learning
… a testament to his energy, vitality, and ambition that, in the ninth decade of his life, the business school's Alfred Chandler '40, … emeritus, has written two new books. The volumes comprise a series entitled Paths of Learning: The Evolution of …
Issue: July-August 2002
The Stuff of World War II
… During a field trip to The International Museum of World War II in Natick, … New-York Historical Society, illustrates the incremental rise of prejudicial hatred. Rare documents are highlighted, …
Issue: March-April 2016
Artificial Intelligence in the Academy
… How is artificial intelligence reshaping the notion of original scholarship? How are faculty using … students from his course, General Education 1188: “Rise of the Machines? Understanding and Using Generative …
From the Archives: The Professionalization of Ivy League Sports
… Although Ivy League athletics does not rise to the level of the powerhouse college sports conferences—with …
Technology, Paternity, Patriarchy
… “All the decisions we make in our most intimate lives…about who … by technology,” contends Debora Spar. A Baker Foundation professor at Harvard Business School, Spar was president of … the creation of marriage at the dawn of agriculture, to the rise of feminism in the twentieth century, to the legal …
Issue: March-April 2019
Off the Shelf
… Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome, by Cammy Brothers ’91, Ph.D. ’99 … the tumult accompanying the popular democratic revolutions, rise of industrial capitalism, and decline of institutional …
Issue: May-June 2022
Trafficking in Chance
… The dozens of ATM machines lining the entrances to the Mohegan Sun casino … slot displays that allow wagers and blood-alcohol levels to rise together. Slot machines are the profit centers of …
Issue: July-August 2002