Features | September-October 2013 Helen Vendler's collaboration with Arion Press The poetry critic, the publisher, and the art of bookmaking in a digital era Montage | November-December 2006 Grolier Reincarnated Tucked into a single room behind a window in Harvard Square, the Grolier Poetry Book Shop is to the world of bookselling what La Sainte... John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2006 “The Excitement of Science” In the fall of 2003, Juliet Girard ’07 arrived at Harvard with first-rate scientific ambitions and a second-rate education. She had grown... John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2006 Where East Meets West Although the Harvard-Yenching Institute is housed on Divinity Avenue, at the eastern boundary of the University’s Cambridge campus... John Harvard's Journal | September-October 2005 Scanning Species On June 26, 1974, merchandise tracking was revolutionized with a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum. The gum package, today... John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2005 An American in Paris More students are venturing abroad, for term or summer study or other experiences, with the College’s encouragement. The first of two... John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2005 Daytripper It's hard to escape San Francisco, where I grew up, without a car. A couple of commuter trains snake into the suburbs, but once you break past... John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2005 Seeing Biological Systems Whole Marc Kirschner, one of the world's leading cell biologists, has a new office. He apologizes for a mess that hardly exists -- a microscope and... John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2005 Yearning for “Big Humanities” Many of Harvard's leading humanities scholars convened on October 22 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Humanities Center—and to... John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2004 Newfangled Networking Photomontages by Flint Born Some people live at the technological vanguard. They operate their tie racks by remote control and read the... The Browser | July-August 2004 Engineer of Fictions When Thomas McMahon, McKay professor of applied mechanics and professor of biology, died unexpectedly of heart failure on Valentine's Day, 1999... John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2004 “People Who Look like You” Sitting on a radiator in a Science Center corridor, Deborah A. Batts '69, J.D. '72, who is U.S. district judge for the Southern District of New... Load More
