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The True Cost of Grade Inflation at Harvard
How an abundance of A’s created “the most stressed-out world of all.”
Edwin Ginn
There will be no need of great national armies,” Edwin Ginn declaimed in 1901, once an international force controlled by a league of...
An Education in Ethics
Last January 13, in the amphitheater of Aldrich Hall 107, Henry B. Reiling began taking his students through the quaint details of a real-estate...
“The Grand Wake for Harvard Indifference”
At noon on November 16, 1938, some 500 Harvard and Radcliffe students jammed Emerson Hall to express their outrage at Kristallnacht, as the...
Summers in Summary
Lawrence H. Summers brought to the Harvard presidency prodigious energy and a penchant for framing the University’s future in visionary terms.
History and Democracy
Editor’s note: Introducing himself as a Princeton professor wearing a Yale gown as he prepared to address a Harvard audience, historian...
Fixing Foreign Policy
This essay is adapted from the 2005-2006 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture, delivered on April 24 under the sponsorship of the Radcliffe...
Hervey White
Splendiferous in his purple Russian blouse, with shaggy hair and beard, Hervey White, A.B. 1894, helped transform a tiny village in the...
“Taming” the Rhine
David Blackbourn has an affection for fens and marshes, lush, low-lying polders and high moors of heath and bog. When he leaves his home in...
Psychiatry by Prescription
By the time he reached his early thirties, James was a promising scientist who had all the makings of an academic star. He had earned a stream...
Governing Harvard
Harvard, founded in 1636, has by law been formally governed by a Board of Overseers since 1642, and by the Corporation since 1650. The last...