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Edgar James Banks
Wearing Arab robes, grasping a rifle, the archaeologist glares out from the printed page. It might be T.E. Lawrence, but this is a very different man—not a warrior but a canny entrepreneur: Edgar J. Banks, A.B. 1893, A.M. ’94. Views of him differ. While …
Issue: November-December 2021
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
Reframing American Art
In his curatorial debut at the Harvard Art Museums, Horace D. Ballard moves the dial back on the origins of American art. The 26 paintings in “From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire” (through July 30) focus not on influences …
Issue: May-June 2023
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
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 …
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Getting His Reps in
During Anwar Floyd-Pruitt’s first year in art school, he arrived at the sculpture lab one weekend to find it locked. This was a problem: he had a project due the following Tuesday. “So, I just worked in the hallway that entire weekend,” he says. “I …
Issue: September-October 2023
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. …
Harvard’s G.O.A.T.
Late in the second quarter on a sunny, seasonably warm Saturday 110 Novembers ago, the 50,000 spectators crammed into Harvard Stadium trained their gaze on a solidly built, crimson-clad player massaging a football near midfield. In the thirty-fourth …
Issue: November-December 2023
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
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 …
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
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
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 …
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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
Behind the Scenes
Four decades ago , Blade Runner showed Sue Chan ’92 her future. She was just 12 when Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic—heralded for its stunningly detailed futuristic Los Angeles—debuted in 1982, and Chan would go on to a career as an art director and …
Issue: January-February 2024