It began nearly a century and a half ago in front of a handful of people curious about the way an oddly shaped inflated sphere bounced on a desolate Massachusetts field.
The career path of Kery Davis ’79 led from law school to Broadway to HBO Boxing. Now, as athletic director at Howard University, he hopes to inject a dose of Ivy League into “The Mecca.”
In What Are the Arts and Sciences? 27 faculty members explain their disciplines in essays edited by math professor Dan Rockmore. Here are some nuggets from the book, which he calls “a brief tour…