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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
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
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 …
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
Football: Harvard 41, Rhode Island 10
Live long enough and you’re bound to see something new. And so it was that the Harvard football team alighted this past Saturday for its season opener in Kingston, Rhode Island, a place where it had not played in its previous 141 seasons. Making itself …
On Campus, Concisely
Race Debate, and Defacement Harvard Law School (HLS) was rattled in November after black tape was pasted over portraits of its African-American professors in Wasserstein Hall, thrusting the University into the national spotlight amid growing concerns over …
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Issue: January-February 2016
Mexican Soul
Like many students, Claudia García ’05 arrived at Harvard with a clear sense of purpose. In her case, though, that purpose was a little unusual: to start a mariachi band. She’d declared as much in her College application, sending in a video of herself …
Issue: May-June 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
Growth Spurt
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown more in the past nine years than in the previous four decades. In a letter distributed to faculty members early in April, Dean Jeremy R. Knowles sought to explain the dynamics of this spurt (the first since …
Issue: May-June 2007
Off the Shelf
Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System, by Jed S. Rakoff, J.D. ’69 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27). A former federal prosecutor and private defense attorney, and a senior U.S. District Court …
Issue: March-April 2021
Football: Harvard 35-Holy Cross 34
We elderly Harvard football fans would like to give our most heartfelt thanks to Dan Curran. We mean heartfelt literally. With his team having just scored a touchdown on the final play of regulation to pull within a point, the Crusaders’ head coach …
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 …
Harvard Law Offers Pre-matriculation Material Free Nationwide
Amid wide concern driven by the COVID-19 pandemic (Is it safe to attend?) and recession (Can I afford it?), with many colleges and universities expecting enrollment to plummet this fall, Harvard Law School (HLS) has decided to offer Zero-L—its online, …
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
Optimizing Public-School Spending
Anyone who follows elections in her local community is familiar with the passionate debate about public-school spending. How much funding do the schools need? What is the most effective use of those funds? Studies conducted from 2015 on have found that …
Issue: November-December 2021