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Returning to Celebrate, and Eat
Though Commencement Week has been postponed, there will come a time when alumni can once again gather on campus for past-due celebrations. It’s nice, then, that Boston and Cambridge are home to many restaurants that make great places to gather and eat—all …
Issue: May-June 2020
Music and Medicine
When Toussaint Miller ’25 arrived at Harvard, he figured he was done with music. He’d loved playing trumpet in his high school jazz band, but now it was time to focus on his books. He wanted to go to medical school, maybe become a surgeon. “I was like, …
Issue: March-April 2025
Teen Grind Culture
Like it or not, children and teenagers today are live participants in an unprecedented experiment, as the sudden ubiquity of smartphones and hyper-engaging social media influences their development. Parents and educators who are not as digitally savvy …
Issue: March-April 2025
Historic Basketball Victory
In the biggest basketball game Harvard has ever played, the Crimson men made history with a convincing win over Princeton, 79-67. The Tigers came to Cambridge with only one Ivy loss, to Brown, while Harvard had sustained two league losses on the road …
Building a New Information Civilization
Most people can be intimately known, near instantly, in ways unimaginable just a few years ago—through the large-scale collection of data from wireless devices they keep close. “These are devices that we think of as extensions of our powers and …
New Members of Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of HAA
The newly elected members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) were announced by the University on May 25, the morning of Commencement Day. Board of Overseers (for six-year terms): Sylvia Mathews …
Five Questions with Ashton Keen
Potter Ashton Keen is an artist-in-residence at Harvard’s ceramics program during this school year, and she spoke about her artistic evolution and learning to work with clay in “ A Potter’s Practice .” Harvard Magazine asked Keen, who recently earned her …
Cryptic Puzzle: “#2”
Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution "#2" solvers (The first ten are listed in the order their solutions were received, the others alphabetically.) Itai Pines – Portland, OR Stephen Throop – Grover, NC Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY …
Likenesses
Peach state dispatch. W. Todd Groce, president and CEO of the Georgia Historical Society , writes: I recently made an exciting discovery. About 35 years ago, while rummaging through a pile of antique books at the Nashville Flea Market, I came across a …
Issue: November-December 2020
President Drew Faust: "Still Harvard"
“ We are on it ,” President Drew Faust said of the University’s financial situation during a July conversation in her office at Massachusetts Hall. And she said, with equal emphasis, “Harvard is still Harvard.” Those twin messages neatly framed her first …
Issue: September-October 2009
An Acrobat Takes Flight
Sometimes it truly feels like flying . That’s how acrobat Anna Soltys Morse, A.L.M. ’18, describes a good day at work. “When things are really well-timed between two people, there’s this moment where you’re like, ‘Oh, that was perfect,’” she says. “You …
Issue: May-June 2022
Dirt Flies
Construction is proceeding rapidly at the commercial enterprise research campus in Allston , where a hotel and apartment and office/laboratory towers (above) will rise alongside a University conference center. South of the Stadium, on North Harvard …
Issue: May-June 2024
Seeking a Flag-Bearer!
For more than 100 years, the Harvard College graduate who had attended the most Harvard-Yale football games carried to The Game a small red silk pennant as a talisman of luck. The Little Red Flag was waved by nine men from 1884 through 2001. At that time …
Issue: March-April 2020
Does High Blood Sugar Blunt the Benefits of Exercise?
Why do some people benefit more from exercise than others? The scientific literature on the subject points to people who seem to naturally exhibit what researchers call a “low response to training,” which means that these individuals can’t reap the full …
Issue: September-October 2022
Cambridge 02138
A Report to Readers It is difficult to absorb how much the world has been shaken since mid March, when Harvard dispersed students, faculty, and staff to work remotely: the pandemic and economic crises, prompting untold suffering; the U.S. reawakening to …
Issue: November-December 2020