Some years ago, the editor of Notre Dame’s alumni magazine shared a meaningful bit of correspondence—though its exact meaning was murky. The writer’s husband had recently died in bed while grasping ...

It’s the most popular section in the Smith Alumnae Quarterly, or in most alumnae magazines, for that matter. The class notes—pages, toward the back of every edition, of snippets telling of milestones ...

When graduates of my department publish a book or scale Mount Everest, they have their choice of three places to brag. The university’s alumni magazine, a glossy quarterly, features class notes in ...