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Foundation of Len Blavatnik, M.B.A. ’89, makes record pledge for basic and applied science.
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Harvard radio station’s long-time chairman David Elliott ’64 steps down.
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The annual financial report also documents endowment changes.
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Foundation of Len Blavatnik, M.B.A. ’89, makes record pledge for basic and applied science.
David Reich
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Can advances in DNA sequencing help explain what makes us human?
Rhodiola rosea
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Research links a Rhodiola rosea extract to enhanced memory.
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Happy campers: For their team photo, a day or two after The Game, the Crimson wore practice jerseys, giving them rather a raffish look.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
Richard Montañez
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Flamin’ Hot Cheetos inventor Richard Montañez shares lessons from his rags-to-riches story.
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Inside WHRB, a self-portrait
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Harvard radio station’s long-time chairman David Elliott ’64 steps down.
The Harvard Ceramics Program show and sale draws about 4,000 people.
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Ceramics Program
Boston’s open studios, holiday craft fairs, and more
Millicent Todd Bingham looks over her mother’s shoulder in this double portrait from 1931.
Photograph courtesy of the Todd-Bingham Picture Collection (MS 496E). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library
Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar
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The Harvard Ceramics Program show and sale draws about 4,000 people.
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B & G Oysters
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A roundup of creative gift ideas for this holiday season
Unite or Perish, Chicago (1968), by John Simmons
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs.2018.119
Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.
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A quilt from the Shape/View series: 2015–2017, all works hand-stitched cotton View III 43×57 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Anna Von Mertens depicts the findings of female astronomers using quilts and drawings.
Shaina Taub sings as militant suffragist Alice Paul.
Photograph by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe Institute
A seventy-fifth Schlesinger Library anniversary celebration
(Click on arrow at right to see a gallery of images.) Maurice Lalau image for “The Juggler of Notre Dame,” by Anatole France (1924)
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A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.
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Last lunge: With senior right guard Larry Allen Jr. (73) keeping Penn defenders at bay, Harvard senior back Charlie Booker nudges the ball over the goal line for the Crimson's first score.
Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard Crimson
A bludgeoning victory in the season’s final road game
Happy hookup: Having beaten Columbia’s Will Allen, Harvard junior wide receiver Jack Cook waits for the pass from senior quarterback Tom Stewart. Cook made the grab and then dashed to the end zone for the longest touchdown pass in Crimson history—92 yards.
Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard CrimsonA Senior Day, and game, to celebrate
Harvard junior defensive lineman Kelvin Apari pressures Dartmouth’s designated passing quarterback, Derek Kyler. The Big Green tried only 11 passes, completing four for 49 yards.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard CrimsonFor the third time against a tough foe, too little, too late.
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Happy campers: For their team photo, a day or two after The Game, the Crimson wore practice jerseys, giving them rather a raffish look.
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How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
Philip Johnson at his iconic modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, 1949
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A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum
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March-April 2005
Letters
WATER AND OIL The quote from Azzam Alwash, director of the Eden Again Project, with which Christopher Reed's article on Iraq's Marsh Arabs...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." As many readers of this magazine are well aware, every five...
Treasure
"The northern hemispheres were almost black from dirt," says David A. Cobb, head of the Harvard Map Collection, referring to a...
In this Issue
The current discussion of ways to reform the U.S. Social Security retirement system is becoming increasingly polarized over the issue of...
Ninety years ago in what is now Malawi, a tall, asthmatic, American-trained Baptist preacher attempted bravely, in the manner of John Brown at...
Although Stuart L. Schreiber's office number is 223 Conant, one of several buildings in the chemistry complex, only part of his suite is...
Literary critics have found any number of ways to divide writers into opposing teams. Isaiah Berlin distinguished between...
Letters
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Right Now
In October 1952, the British governor of Kenya, Sir Evelyn Baring, declared a state of emergency. Mau Mau rebels were attacking and...
Geologists have long believed that the world's supply of oil and natural gas came from the decay of primordial plant and animal matter, which...
Current low birthrates among highly educated women pose a challenge to the U.S. economy and may compound existing social problems, says David...
In the human ear, it takes only a few millionths of a second from the time a sound wave vibrates the receiving "hair cells" to the...
New England Regional
A full slate of activities can be found throughout the University this season, ranging from performances of children's theater and French...
Caffé Umbra, a simply decorated restaurant serving rustic French (and some Italian) fare, is the product of chef/owner Laura Brennan's...
"A home is not a mere transient shelter," H.L. Mencken wrote in Prejudices: Fifth Series, "its essence lies in its permanence, in its...
John Harvard's Journal
Even as Harvard's planning consultants conclude the private phase of their development grid for Allston, it is possible to get a sense of their...
Meanwhile, back in Cambridge, students of Bucksbaum professor in urban design Joan Busquets have transformed their studio class at the Graduate...
Hongkun Park Photograph by Stu Rosner "Your brain doesn't run at three gigahertz, believe me," kids professsor of chemistry...
The University announced on January 11 that Jack R. Meyer, M.B.A. '69, president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company...
In light of continued strong investment returns (see "Endowment Gains: Last Hurrah?" November-December 2004, page 56), the Harvard...
Following two years of high investment returns on endowment assets, the Harvard Corporation has approved an increase in funds distributed to...
On January 14, President Lawrence H. Summers appeared as a luncheon speaker at "Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce," a...
The discussion of tenured appointments of women within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) cooled somewhat during an extended airing of the...
1920 The Corporation and Overseers have voted to admit female students to the new Graduate School of Education, which will open its doors in...
In his annual decanal letter to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), published February 3, William C. Kirby fleshes out the three principal...
Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross announced in early January a series of appointments and new positions intended to manage undergraduate...
Marc Kirschner, one of the world's leading cell biologists, has a new office. He apologizes for a mess that hardly exists -- a microscope and...
Harvard's faculty consists of both tenured professors and "ladder faculty" (associate and assistant professors), and other teaching...
The pilot project with Google announced by the Harvard University Library in December is a small step toward a future of possibilities in which...
In agreements announced December 14, the world's largest search engine, Google, undertook to build an on-line reading room to house digital...
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"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets," wrote British...
The Harvard athletic department website, a shrine to the accomplishments of Crimson athletes, makes a peculiar boast regarding ice hockey...
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It's hard to escape San Francisco, where I grew up, without a car. A couple of commuter trains snake into the suburbs, but once you break past...
Alumni
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The University-wide on-line learning initiative, [email protected], has released several new programs. "Reproductive Health in the 21st...
This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. Ballots...
On April 13, alumni/ae of all classes, their spouses, and their high-school-aged offspring are welcome to visit the College to attend...
"Harvard in Hollywood," an Alumni College featuring graduates in the entertainment industry, is to take place on March 12 in Los...
The HAA's Clubs Committee presents two annual awards for contributions to Harvard clubs. Recipients of the 2004 Outstanding Club Contribution...
Harvard clubs host lectures, seminars, and social gatherings. Following is a partial list of Harvard-affiliated speakers appearing at local club...
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On December 26, the tsunami struck Sri Lanka. Jehan Perera '82, J.D. '87, was not directly endangered, but a close relative lost her husband and...
Melanie Carr '97 once planned to go to law school, but her passion for social justice has led her to her own niche in public-interest law. She...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." As many readers of this magazine are well aware, every five...
Treasure
"The northern hemispheres were almost black from dirt," says David A. Cobb, head of the Harvard Map Collection, referring to a...