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Quality Care
As I read David Cutler's important new book on how to deal with the nation's most challenging social problem, I kept wanting more. Cutler...
What's All This About Boodh?
When we think of Henry David Thoreau, A.B. 1837, we conjure up a literary stylist, a close observer of nature, a political oppositionist, and a...
Chapter & Verse
Helen Snider hopes someone can provide all the verses to a song dating at least to 1907 that begins, "The elephant goes round and round,/The...
Words from the Wilderness for Classmates
At the middle of the twentieth century, Ernest Oberholtzer '07, G '08 (1884-1977), longtime president of the Quetico-Superior Council, was...
One Woman's Education
Since 1989, Jill Ker Conway has been fascinating readers, especially women, with the compelling story of her journey from sheep ranchers'...
Off the Shelf
Loomis, sometime in the 1930s Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II...
Off the Shelf
The Age of Science: What Scientists Learned in the Twentieth Century, by Gerard Piel '37 (Basic Books, $40). The founder of Scientific American...
Chapter & Verse
Thomas Bettman requests the source of a fragment from Hart Crane that he remembers: "The poetry of despair is beautiful, alas, but I must...
Catfish, Not Salmon
First poor Southern boy with no formal education or career ambitions, then writer, poet, actor, translator, cryptographer, puppeteer, costume...
Evolution, Synthesized
Few people would have the credentials, history, background, or brazen confidence to write a book with so definitive a title as What Evolution...
Mayr at Harvard
In 1953, a decade after the triumph of his Systematics and the Origin of Species, Harvard attracted Mayr--by then the world's leading...