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A Mouse, and Other Surprises
“In this perilous, suffering world and in this deeply troubled nation,” as John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, characterized them, perhaps just what is wanted in a Commencement speaker is an actor to read a children’s story about a mouse named Mahalia. Lithgow …
Issue: July-August 2005
Harvard Returns to Normal This Fall
Harvard has announced that the University will essentially return to normal for the fall semester: residence in the Yard and the Houses, attendance in classrooms, in-person dining, athletes on the field. This announcement comes more than a year after …
Lydialyle Gibson , Jacob Sweet
Yesterday’s News
1920 The Harvard football team, playing its first and last postseason game, defeats Oregon, 7-6, in the Rose Bowl. 1925 Five hundred students appear on January 10 for a final dinner in Memorial Hall before the University reluctantly closes the 50-year …
Issue: January-February 2020
Election Results
The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and the new directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) were announced at the association’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. Just over 30,000 alumni cast ballots, …
Issue: July-August 2005
Cryptic Puzzle: “Gift”
SOLVE THE MOST recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. Download the puzzle here Download the hints Download the solutions “Gift” solvers (The first ten are listed in the order their solutions were received, the others alphabetically) 1. …
Rashida Jones ’97 Named Class Day Speaker
Comedic actress Rashida Jones ’97 will be the principal guest speaker for Harvard College seniors celebrating their Class Day in Tercentenary Theatre on May 25. She was chosen and invited to speak by a subcommittee of eight class marshals, who considered …
Football: Harvard 28-Merrimack 21
I f you were a Harvard fan among the 10,946 attending the 2022 season opener Friday night, you would have been forgiven had you shuffled disconsolately out of the Stadium with seven or so minutes remaining in the fourth quarter and the lifeless Crimson …
Engineering Bioengineering
As Harvard pursues a broad program of bioengineering research and teaching, one element—based on deciphering life forms and processes, and making novel uses of the discoveries—has made a major advance. On October 7, the University announced that Hansjörg …
Issue: January-February 2009
Cryptic Puzzle: “Diversifying”
SOLVE THE MOST recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52. Download the puzzle here Download the hints Download the solution “Diversifying” solvers (The first ten are listed in the order their solutions were received, the others …
Murphy Time
November 19, 2011. The Yale Bowl. There are seven minutes remaining in the second quarter and the heavily favored Harvard football team is being given all it can handle by scrappy archrival Yale. Nursing a 14-7 lead, the Crimson has driven to the Eli 5, …
Issue: November-December 2015
The Ethanol Illusion
Americans annual consumption of gasoline (for both private and commercial transportation) amounts to more than 140 billion gallonsclose to 500 gallons for every man, woman, and child in the country. With gasoline prices up by almost a third over the past …
Issue: November-December 2006
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Cass Sunstein As Homer tells us, when the Olympians come down from the heights to interfere with mere mortals, the consequences can be unpredictable at best and harmful at worst. Thus, I read Lincoln Caplan’s article about Cass Sunstein’s years in the …
Issue: March-April 2015
Fugitive Pedagogy
Jarvis Givens remembers feeling like a door had opened in his mind. Having flown across the country on the kind of offbeat, open-ended quest that later would become a regular part of his research process, he was sitting in a church storage closet in …
Issue: March-April 2022
“Don’t Zoom While Driving”
On Monday morning, March 23, Harvard students’ experience with newly remote styles of learning began, as spring recess ended but classes resumed with their students dispersed around the globe, exiled from campus by the coronavirus pandemic . Before the …
David Miliband Delivers Kennedy School Commencement Address
David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), addressed the Kennedy School’s graduating class of 2015 and their families in Cambridge’s John F. Kennedy Memorial Park on Wednesday afternoon. In a sobering speech, Miliband …