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Jul 1999

Exit an Icon

When Paul Mellon '29 died last February 1, at the age of 91, President Levin noted in his tribute that "of the many thousands who have contributed...

Jul 1998

The Spock Legacy

When Benjamin Spock ’25, the author of the fabulously successful book Baby and Child Care, died on March 15, his name had become virtually...

Nov/Dec 2008

Harvard Beats Yale 29–29

The 1968 Yale-Harvard game—the famous 29–29 tie—is one of those sporting events, like Bobby Thomson’s home run or Don Larsen’s perfect game, whose...

Jul/Aug 2008

Who Wrote the Serenity Prayer?

At the beginning of this millennium, the editors of the World Almanac selected what they thought to be “the most memorable quotes by Americans in...

Nov/Dec 2007

Rx for PC

I am largely sympathetic with Sterling Professor of Law Anthony Kronman 's impassioned and beautifully written apologia for Directed Studies as a...

Apr 1995

What an Attic!

“Things” is not a tribute to a literary or historical figure, an anniversary talk, or a revisionist view. The exhibition is of things a library...

Jul/Aug 2008

Who wrote the Serenity Prayer?

At the beginning of this millennium, the editors of the World Almanac selected what they thought to be "the most memorable quotes by Americans in...

Jul/Aug 2008

You can quote them

The principal theme of these columns is the slipperiness of quotation attribution. Popular quotation lore, and often the standard quotation...

Sep/Oct 2008

The missionary and the gorilla

On July 16, 1847, a missionary newly arrived in New York City from West Africa packed a collection of bones in a box and shipped them off to a...

Nov/Dec 2008

Fifteen years on the job

Y: You've just completed 15 years as president of Yale. You're the longest-serving Ivy president. You have everyone from the college newspaper to...

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