Word: devotee
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We are proud alumnae of Harvard College—one fourth-generation and white, one first-generation and African American. We took different routes to Harvard, but each of us experienced class, race, and financial struggles. Now, as educators who devote our lives to reaching out to underprivileged communities, we...
Former Harvard Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson ’46, whose reforms catalyzed a revolution in modern medical education around the world, died last Wednesday due to complications from a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 84 years old.Tosteson held the deanship for 20...
On the banks of the Charles, Borges was glad his younger self never asked him how successful his verses and books would be. As we face the unanswered questions of where, to whom, and to which causes we shall devote our lives, let us leave today with a promise: to...
“Miracles happen to those who believe in them,” Bernard Berenson, class of 1887, once said. And surely he must have believed in them. Though he began his life as a displaced Lithuanian immigrant, Berenson wound up a regent in the court of his own...
Sitting on my bookshelf are well-thumbed copies of Heidi Murkoff's What to Expect When You're Expecting and What to Expect the First Year, handed down from one neurotic mother to another. To complete the anxiety-inducing trilogy, the bestselling author's latest oeuvre, What to Expect Before...