This week’s cover artist,Victoria Tentler-Krylov, discusses moving to New York from St. Petersburg: “When I first moved to New York, my favorite thing was to ride the subway and just stare at my fellow-passengers. Sometimes I would sketch them. I still love to do that, and it’s a lot easier these days to get away with it, because no one raises their eyes from their phones.”
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William James,1903........So he could clearly see, he said, 'two Harvards.' One of these had certain special educational functions, and served, also, in a very visible way, as a sort of social club. The other was 'the inner, spiritual Harvard....The true Church was always the invisible Church. The true Harvard is the invisible Harvard in the souls of her more truth-seeking and intelligent and often very solitary sons. The university most worthy of imitation is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself least lonely, most positively furthered and most rightly fed.' In this respect he believed that Harvard 'still is in the van.'