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Laura E. Hatt
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Editors' Note
To be honest, it’s probably not accurate to call them the “most” interesting. At the risk of being maudlin, sorting through your thoughtful and many, many nominations made us wonder if every senior couldn’t be somewhere on this list.
Laura Goes To IHOP
Heat and fluorescence and red-blue-yellow cleanliness spilled out across the sidewalk in a broad half-moon. IHOP glowed with silent vulgarity.
Meg G. Panetta
Meg G. Panetta ’17 is a gentle soul. Her voice is very quiet. “I was a strange little kid,” she says. “I feel like most people are.”
Thanks, Sorry, I Have To Go
It is 2 a.m. in Cannes and I am alone on a dark boardwalk. Well—not alone.
Nancy F. Cott
Cott is one of the country’s leading gender historians, and she’s spent the last half-century researching, documenting, and testifying against gender-based injustice.
Building a Field of Dreams: Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the Afro-American Studies Department
When Department Chair Nathan I. Huggins died in December of 1989, it looked like the end of Afro-American Studies at Harvard.
LBJ Wants Your GPA: The Vietnam Exam
In 1965, a college education was no longer a get-out-of-jail free card for the Vietnam War.
Unchowdered Territory
I approach the bar and sit next to an older man with an empty bowl. “What’s in the New England clam chowder?” I ask him. “Blood. Sweat. Clams,” says the man, with a thousand-yard stare.
You Say You Want a Revolution
Before Reed was a fearless revolutionary, he was a lonely Harvard student.
Out of Sight, In Your Ear
Inside, I find the ’70s. Black Sabbath howls on vinyl in the corner. Bon Jovi and Def Leppard scowl out from crates of CDs and 45s.
15 Minutes with Ellen Fitzpatrick
America has seen a strong female candidate in two of the last three presidential elections. Historian Ellen Fitzpatrick, author of “The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency,” weighs in.
Clementines In The Snow
The cold is a feature of national identity, and cold immunity is a point of national pride.
