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These Harvard Graduates Are Candidates for Sainthood
For advocacy and benevolence, three late alumni are reportedly in line for the Catholic Church’s highest honor.
by Alex Beam
Swing Time
The sweet and cool harmonies of Duke Ellington's Mood Indigo: clarinet, muted trombone, and trumpet atop the swingy walking bass of the banjo...
John Knowles Paine
Harvard's first professor of music was born in Portland, Maine, where his father led the town band, owned the music store, and published music...
Picking Harvard's Pocket
The entrance strategy was simple. On Saturday afternoon, December 1, 1973, a visitor to the Fogg Art Museum, a man in his twenties, left a brown...
A Better Way to Practice Medicine?
Looking at the relationship between doctor and patient, and the way healthcare is delivered in our country.
The Eugenic Temptation
The full-page advertisement in the Harvard Crimson a year ago came as no surprise. The text was straightforward: Intelligent, Athletic Egg...
Yo-Yo Ma's Journeys
A warm, breezy day in July, and beneficent providence has set for me a sumptuous lunch overlooking God's own landscape near Tanglewood, on the...
In the Streets and in the Studio
Ben Shahn liked to tell the story of being introduced to someone as "Shahn the painter" and being asked if he was any relation to "Shahn the...
Earl Derr Biggers
I am quite sure that I never intended to travel the road of the mystery writer," wrote Earl Derr Biggers '07 for his twenty-fifth class reunion...
Deep Cravings
The bombshell dropped in 1976, when "The Natural History of Chipping" appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry. In their article, Norman...
Thomas Forrest Kelly teaches about “First NIghts”—musical premieres
A look at Thomas Forrest Kelly’s Harvard Core course on five musical premieres