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For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 161116_Remax_v2.indd 1 10/4/16 2:04 PM NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2016 VOLUME 119, NUMBER 2 FEATURES 34 Educating Teachers | by Sophia Nguyen Preparing undergraduates for classroom careers 42 Facing Harvard | by Jane Kamensky An evocative gallery of Copleys 49 Forum: Global Health at Home | by Howard Hiatt, Charles Kenney, and Mark Rosenberg p. 17 Importing innovations to improve American medical care 54 Vita: Alan Seeger | by Dick Friedman Brief life of a premonitory poet: 1888-1916 56 Death Throes | by Lincoln Caplan Two law professors work to change how Americans think about capital punishment JOHN HARVARD’S JOURNAL 17 An artful campus, a smaller endowment, theatrical curator, House renewal costs, capital campaign tops $7 billion, ticketless women, online learning evolves, John Adams as applicant, Medical School dean, the Undergraduate’s “writing projects,” early football prowess, 35 basketball seasons, and Lavietes refreshed p. 34 DEPARTMENTS 2 Cambridge 02138 | Letters from our readers—and thoughts on do-overs 3 The View from Mass Hall 11 Right Now | Business executives behind bars, happiness and health, assembly-line antibiotics 2 16A Harvard | A calendar of autumn events, Mount Washington observed, Moby-Dick marathon, hiking the Blue Hills, and Brockton-style Steampunk 67 Montage | Stop-motion animation, Bruegel’s genre, poet Jean Valentine, fantasy fictions, world borders, a magisterial history of the democratic idea, and more 76 Alumni | Twenty-first-century DJ, Overseers’ elections overhauled, and more p. 11 80 The College Pump | From Robert McNamara to Bob Dylan 96 Treasure | Political pins—for women On the cover: The facility for capital punishment by lethal injection, Arizona State Prison, 2009 81 Crimson Classifieds Photograph by ©Norma Jean Gargasz/Alamy CLOCKWISEFROM (PINS) TOP: HARRISON JIM JIM HARRISON; CALLERY; TAYLOR JILL EDUCATION; OF SCHOOLANDERSON/HARVARD GRADUATE p. 96 www.harvardmagazine.com Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 LETTERS EDITOR: John S. Rosenberg SENIOR EDITOR: Jean Martin Cambridge 02138 MANAGING EDITOR: Jonathan S. Shaw ART DIRECTOR: Jennifer Carling Final clubs, the doubly disadvantaged, veterans’ memories ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Marina Bolotnikova, Sophia Nguyen STAFF WRITER/EDITOR: Lydialyle Gibson ASSISTANT EDITOR: Nell Porter Brown CHARTER SCHOOLS Our schools are a criti- BERTA GREENWALD LEDECKY Paul peterson’s call for cal part of the future of UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWS school reform (Septem- the United States. Many Matthew Browne, Lily Scherlis ber-October, page 37) is an schools are failing. Pe- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS exemplary display of the terson’s article explains weaknesses of the char- what has been done, the John T. Bethell, Lincoln Caplan, John ter-led education “reform” results, and what must be de Cuevas, Dick Friedman, Adam movement. Brimming with done, vouchers and charter Goodheart, Elizabeth Gudrais, Jim needless hostility to teach- schools, more persuasively Harrison, Courtney Humphries, er’s unions (which have is- than any of the other pieces Christopher S. Johnson, Adam Kirsch, sues, to be sure, but need to be engaged I have read on the subject. Colleen Lannon, Stu Rosner, Deborah rather than ridiculed), nowhere does he of- Robert C. Armour, M.B.A. ’67 Smullyan, Mark Steele fer a single suggestion about how schools— Virginia Beach, Va. charter or otherwise—should attract and HARVARD MAGAZINE INC. retain top-level talent to our nation’s class- Paul e. peterson’s fantasizing “Post- PRESIDENT: Margaret H. Marshall, Ed.M. rooms. The world’s best school systems Regulatory School Reform” is both disap- ’69. DIRECTORS: Peter K. Bol, Jonathan (Finland, South Korea, etc.) give teachers pointing and disturbing. Clearly he has spent L.S. Byrnes, D.B.A. ’80, Scott V. Edwards, excellent pay, terrific respect, up-to-date too long in the ivory tower of the Kennedy Thomas F. Kelly, Ph.D. ’73, facilities, union representation, and top- School and too long in the heady environ- Ann Marie Lipinski, NF ’90, Lars Peter quality public management; why none of ment of educational elitism of suburban Bos- this bears any mention is troubling. ton, God bless it. Knoth Madsen, John P. Reardon Jr. ’60, The biggest problems with American What is disappointing about this out- Bryan E. Simmons ’83 schools can’t be solved by changes in man- dated evolution of the article is a combi- agement: many urban schools are trapped nation of his cavalier commentary embed- BOARD OF INCORPORATORS in a cycle of poverty, making them unable ded in the article, his apparently libertarian This magazine, at first called the Harvard Bulletin, was to attract and retain good teachers (or prin- view of education policy, his bias against founded in 1898. Its Board of Incorporators was char- cipals, with the occasional exception that federal support and oversight of Ameri- tered in 1924 and remains active in the magazine’s governance. The membership is as follows: Stephen J. proves the rule), and residential segrega- can education, and his dismissal of public Bailey, AMP ’94; Jefrey S. Behrens ’89, William I. Ben- tion has left them without the resources to education at the local level, e.g., “…today’s nett ’62, M.D. ’69; John T. Bethell ’54; Peter K. Bol; Fox provide the wrap-around services (or even public schools show little capacity to im- Butterfield ’61, A.M. ’64; Sewell Chan ’98; Jonathan S. decent building maintenance) needed to prove on their own.” Perhaps the most re- Cohn ’91; Philip M. Cronin ’53, J.D. ’56; John de Cuevas ’52; James F. Dwinell III ’62; Anne Fadiman ’74; Benja- right the situation. This is a problem com- vealing and ironic aspect of his arguments min M. Friedman ’66, Ph.D. ’71; Robert H. Giles, NF petition and choice won’t solve; it was in and data is that neither whites, blacks, nor ’66; Richard H. Gilman, M.B.A. ’83; Owen Gingerich, fact created by the choice known as white Hispanics significantly improve in reading Ph.D. ’62; Adam K. Goodheart ’92; Philip C. Haughey ’57; Brian R. Hecht ’92; Sarah Blafer Hrdy ’68, Ph.D. flight (or, as Peterson puts it, “the afuent and math over extended periods of time. ’75; Ellen Hume ’68; Alex S. Jones, NF ’82; Bill Kovach, already have the options they need”). The One might suspect that suggested char- NF ’89; Florence Ladd, BI ’72; Jennifer 8 Lee ’99; Ran- urge to competition relegates the poorest ter school improvements occur simply be- dolph C. Lindel ’66; Ann Marie Lipinski, NF ’90; Scott tier of students to the losing schools, using cause of experimental efect, that curious Malkin ’80, J.D.-M.B.A. ’83; Margaret H. Marshall, Ed.M. ’69, Ed ’77, L ’78; Lisa L. Martin, Ph.D. ’90; David charter management to distract the public phenomenon seen repeatedly in education McClintick ’62; Winthrop L. McCormack ’67; M. Lee from the need for more resources and racial reform, medicine, and other research where Pelton, Ph.D. ’84; John P. Reardon Jr. ’60; Harriet Ritvo integration. improvement occurs briefly because people ’68, Ph.D. ’75; Henry Rosovsky, JF ’57, Ph.D. ’59, LL.D. ’98; Barbara Rudolph ’77; Robert N. Shapiro ’72, J.D. Raphael Sperry ’95 believe it will. ’78; Theda Skocpol, Ph.D. ’75; Peter A. Spiers ’76; Scott San Francisco What is disturbing is that Peterson ar- H. Stossel ’91; Sherry Turkle ’69, Ph.D. ’76; Robert H. Weiss ’54; Jan Ziolkowski. 2 November - December 2016 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 THE VIEW FROM MASS HALL Bricks and Mortar utside of Massachusetts Hall, undergraduates enrolled in Anthropology 1130: the Archaeology of Harvard Yard are diligently working to uncover pieces of the Univer- sity’s past, the latest in a series of five excavations in the Ooldest area of campus. Once a week, they carefully sift through dirt to discover fragments of history and glimpses into lives that seem both foreign and familiar. A bone comb, a white clay pipe, and a piece of metal type from Colonial America’s first printing press: artifacts that are as much about appearance, leisure, and technol- ogy as they are about a diferent time. How did our predecessors inhabit and experience Harvard? How did they change it? I reflect on those questions each time we begin a new construc- tion project—an increasingly common occurrence thanks to the Harvard Campaign.