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Spirited Celebrations
Temperatures are dipping, snow is (almost) falling, and the holiday season is just around the corner. There are so many opportunities for exploring, toasting, and even giving back throughout the Cambridge area—whether you’re ready to raise a glass with a …
Issue: November-December 2022
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
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
Strokes of Genius
Traditionally, Harvard has not been known as a golf power. The school’s most significant figure in the sport (if you don’t count Bobby Jones ’24 , who didn’t tee it up for the Crimson) arguably is Edward S. Stimpson II ’27, two-time captain of the golf …
Issue: September-October 2016
Ways and Means: Harvard's Wage Debate
In partial response to the "living-wage" sit-in at Massachusetts Hall last spring and demands for a $10.25 hourly minimum wage for the University's lowest-paid employees, then president Neil L. Rudenstine appointed a Harvard Committee on Employment and …
Issue: November-December 2001
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
Sunlight and Shadow
Harvard’s 372nd Commencement was perfect . But for a brief shower Wednesday evening, the sun shone throughout the week. Thursday morning, May 25, The Day, was cool enough to lend perfect comfort to the many thousands of people who found themselves clothed …
Issue: July-August 2023
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
Civil War Reawakened
A new book, 1861: The Civil War Awakening, by Adam Goodheart ’92, recently reviewed in Harvard Magazine, was also the subject of a searching, favorable review in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Goodheart's volume, years in the making, explores …
Classified Advertising
Why Advertise in Harvard Magazine's Classifieds Section? Exclusive Audience: Access Harvard University's alumni, faculty, and staff—an engaged readership with high purchasing power. Proven Success: Advertisers have rented properties, sold homes, grown …
Humans on Horseback
Throughout much of Eurasia, a single pastoralist culture that thrived between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago left behind an indelible genetic imprint still detectable in modern populations from India to Russia to Western Europe. How could a band of animal …
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
Major League Dreams
Among the children chasing foul balls, the firetrucks serving as a stadium gate, and the players devouring hot dogs 15 minutes before first pitch, Jay Driver ’24 treated his final game in the Cape Cod Baseball League just like any other. For that June 29 …
Hiram Hunn Awards
Seven alumni received Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards from the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid on October 2 for their volunteer work: recruiting and interviewing prospective undergraduates. William L. (“Ike”) …
Issue: November-December 2015
Getting Close to the Past
Clint Smith, who received a Ph.D. in education from Harvard in 2020, has written an important and timely book about race in America. But How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America is also a book about education: what we …
Issue: November-December 2021