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AR32M092 111110_BofA_USTrust_Harvard.indd 1 9/26/11 9:59 AM BANK-UST-Q5943 9-23-2011 4:23 PM Page 1 Client: Bank of America Live: None Art Director: Desilva Job Colors: CMYK Description: SAM Capabilities Frame: N/A Studio Op: Cassello Ink Name: Publication: Ivy League Trim: 7” x 9.25” Username: Elliot Erwin Cyan Scale: 1:1 Bleed: None ProjectManager: Natola Magenta Print Scale: None Gutter in Spread: N/A Production: Schilling Yellow File Status: Mechanical Black Art Status: Approved Font Family: Resolution: 300 dpi ITC Franklin Gothic Std, Franklin Gothic Book, Farn- Q5943_Ivy_Leag_7X9_25_mg_.indd hamHH, FarnhamDisplay UST_Bckgrnd_Filigree_Mg.tif (Users:elliot.erwin:Desktop:Q5943:Q5943_Ivy_Leag_7X9_25_mg_ Folder:Links:UST_Bckgrnd_Filigree_Mg.tif), USTrust_signature_CMYK.eps (Users:elliot.erwin:Desktop:Q5943:Q5943_Ivy_Leag_7X9_25_mg_ Folder:Links:USTrust_signature_CMYK.eps), UST_Bckgrnd_Filigree_Ghost_Mg.tif (Users:elliot.erwin:Desktop:Q5943:Q5943_Ivy_Leag_7X9_25_mg_ Folder:Links:UST_Bckgrnd_Filigree_ Ghost_Mg.tif), UST_F734_RFO_Shot_07_Mg.tif (Users:elliot.erwin:Desktop:Q5943:Q5943_Ivy_Leag_7X9_25_mg_ Folder:Links:UST_F734_RFO_ Shot_07_Mg.tif), UST_105070326_11_Mg.tif (Users:elliot.erwin:Desktop:Q5943:Q5943_Ivy_Leag_7X9_25_mg_ Folder:Links:UST_105070326_11_ SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: None NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2011 VOLUME 114, NUMBER 2 OLLEGE. C FEATURES THLETIC COMMUNICATIONS THLETIC A ARVARD The Living Dinosaur H 31 Peter Del Tredici’s search for the wild ginkgo and the secret of its ELLOWS OF F uniquely long survival OURTESY OF HARVARD HARVARD OF OURTESY C by Jill Jonnes page 65 RESIDENT AND P Forum: Bullish on Private Colleges DEPARTMENTS 36 Private institutions of higher education exhibit adaptability and staying power, 2 Cambridge 02138 USEUMS © 2011 M precisely because of their un-businesslike “business models” RT Communications from our readers A by Richard P. Chait and Zachary First 11 Right Now ARVARD H Memory rewired in a Web-search era, wealth perceptions and preferences, 40 Vita: Andrew Craigie ESOURCES, “hacking” bacterial genomes, a bet on R Brief life of a patriot and a black hole ISUAL V scoundrel: 1754-1819 16A New England Regional Section A calendar of seasonal events, indulging by Anthony J. Connors MAGING AND I in dance, and a locavore locale in Kendall IGITAL Square D 42 Spheres of Discovery 17 Montage A new exhibition reveals the Filming a vanishing New York junkyard, page 42 connections among Renaissance art, EPARTMENT OF D farm-fresh salads, American economic blundering, vision-shifting videos, Peter invention, and the evolution of science Pan: centenarian, and the difficulties of by Jonathan Shaw and Jennifer Carling discovering drugs 68 The Alumni 48 The Mediatrician When undergraduate men and women Michael Rich studies how children really use ARRISON began living together, plus Aloian awardees H and Hiram Hunn and Alumni Association modern media—and the implications JIM page 31 honorands for their health and learning 72 The College Pump by Cara Feinberg Adams House’s (diversity) dance master, and the M.B.A. sell signal 54 John Harvard’s Journal 92 Treasure Poetry posts for 9/11, endowment rebound, Allston agenda, Artful dagger financial aid amended, the libraries’ war plan, a new University 73 Crimson Classifieds Professor on green businesses, Arts On the cover: Invention of Book Printing, by an unknown engraver. From Nova reperta and Sciences update, Divinity dean (New inventions and discoveries of modern times), steps down, two Undergraduate by Stradanus (Jan van der Straet), c. 1599-1603. views of self and community, early football, Image courtesy of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston and basketball co-captains ROBERT NEUBECKER ROBERT page 36 www.harvardmagazine.com LETTERS Editor: John S. Rosenberg Senior Editor: Jean Martin Managing Editor: Jonathan S. Shaw Cambridge Deputy Editor: Craig Lambert Associate Editor: Elizabeth Gudrais Household energy efficiency, Deng Xiaoping, Darwinian drives Assistant Editor-Online: Laura Levis Assistant Editor: Nell Porter Brown Art Director: Jennifer Carling Production and New Media Manager: Mark Felton HARVARD, 375 YEARS YOUNG Web Assistant: Stephen Geinosky At first glance, a 375th anniversary may not seem, as you suggest, as momen- Berta Greenwald Ledecky tous or splashy as a 400th or even a 350th Undergraduate Fellows (“Birthday Greetings,” September-Octo- Isabel W. Ruane, Katherine Xue ber, page 5), but it does represent an even Contributing Editors three-eighths of a millennium (the equiva- John T. Bethell, John de Cuevas, Adam lent of three furlongs in a mile, six ounces Goodheart, Jim Harrison, Courtney in a pound, three pints in a gallon), and is Humphries, Christopher S. Johnson, altogether a marker not to be sneezed at. Adam Kirsch, Colleen Lannon, Calvin F. Senning ’55 Christopher Reed, Stu Rosner, Cape Porpoise, Me. Deborah Smullyan, Mark Steele Editorial and Business Office The issue of Harvard Magazine dedicated 7 Ware Street to the upcoming 375th anniversary of the Cambridge, Mass. 02138-4037 founding of the school surprised and dis- Tel. 617-495-5746; fax: 617-495-0324 mayed me. In the reflections on Harvard’s let alone ad- Website: www.harvardmagazine.com recent past, present, and immediate future, dress, the disturbing fact that col- Reader services: there is hardly a mention of civic engage- lege tuition has so far outstripped inflation 617-495-5746 or 800-648-4499 ment: of the value of community service in the past 25 years. Is there a legitimate Harvard Magazine Inc. and social advocacy work in the under- explanation for this, other than that other President: Henry Rosovsky, JF ’57, graduate experience. I write as an alumnus colleges have been doing the same? Ph.D. ’59, LL.D. ’98. Directors: who had the good fortune to be at Harvard Simon Frankel ’86 Suzanne Blier, Robert Giles, NF ’66, at a time of intense political involvement, San Francisco Leslie E. Greis ’80, Alex S. Jones, NF ’82, but also as a graduate whose volunteer Thomas F. Kelly, Ph.D. ’73, experiences through programs at Phillips To not include the Crimson’s 2004 un- Randolph C. Lindel ’66, Tamara Elliott Brooks House still have impact and mean- defeated football season—the first-ever Rogers ’74, A. Clayton Spencer, A.M. ’82 ing. Perhaps the lack of attention to civic 10 and 0 year—as part of “The Crimson engagement represents simple oversight Triumphant: 25 high moments in Harvard Harvard Magazine (ISSN 0095-2427) is published bimonthly by Harvard Magazine Inc., a nonprofit corporation, 7 Ware on the part of the editors. If my surmise is athletics, 1986-2011” (by John Bethell, page Street, Cambridge, Mass. 02138-4037, phone 617-495-5746; fax wrong, then a campus- (alumni)-wide dia- 56) is clearly a mistake—or hopefully sim- 617-495-0324. The magazine is supported by reader contribu- tions and subscriptions, advertising revenue, and a subven- logue is in order. ply an oversight. tion from Harvard University. Its editorial content is the re- sponsibility of the editors. Periodicals postage paid at Boston, Walter Licht ’67 Howie Berg Mass., and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send ad- Annenberg professor of history; faculty director, Stamford, Conn. dress changes to Circulation Department, Harvard Magazine, 7 Ware Street, Cambridge, Mass. 02138-4037. Subscription rate Civic House and the Penn Civic Scholars Program $30 a year in U.S. and possessions, $55 Canada and Mexico, $75 other foreign. (Allow up to 10 weeks for first delivery.) Sub- University of Pennsylvania John Bethell replies: Harvard teams went 11-0 scription orders and customer service inquiries should be in 1890 and 1896, 12-0 in 1901, and had a sent to the Circulation Department, Harvard Magazine, 7 Ware Street, Cambridge, Mass. 02138-4037, or call 617-495-5746 or Your fascinating article about “The 9-0 season in 2001 (which might well have 800-648-4499, or e-mail [email protected]. Single Twenty-First-Century Student” (by Eliza- been a 10-0 season if the first game hadn’t copies $4.95, plus $2.50 for postage and handling. Manuscript submissions are welcome, but we cannot assume responsibil- beth Gudrais, page 52) had one disturbing been canceled because of 9/11).