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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. …
Cooper Gallery Lights Up Mount Auburn Street
The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art glows at night—a lantern of lit cedar against the dense red brick of Mount Auburn Street. Visitors get their first look into the building through slices of glass, between tall cedar slats. The …
Bouncing Back
As the crow flies , it is just under 270 miles from Lavietes Pavilion to the Palestra. Yet entering the season, the Harvard men’s and women’s basketball teams anticipated a long and arduous path from their home gym to the site of the inaugural Ivy League …
Issue: March-April 2017
Yesterday’s News
1920 The 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-old …
Issue: January-February 2025
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 …
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 …
Trump and Apocalyptic Thinking
Joining a wave of protesters in cities across the country, demonstrators massed in Harvard Yard this afternoon to rally against Donald Trump’s surprise win in this week’s presidential election. The evening before, just hours after some professors had …
Money-Management Makeover
The value of Harvard’s endowment increased by $3.3 billion during the fiscal year ended June 30, rising to $29.2 billion. The 12.8 percent growth, from the year-earlier total of $25.9 billion, reflects a 16.7 percent investment return on endowment assets …
Permafrost Fare
Community cookbooks are not known for remarkable scope and ambition. As delicious as a favorite pasta salad might be, it tastes about the same whether made in Arkansas, Nevada, or Maine, jokes Marylène Altieri, Schlesinger Library curator of books and …
Issue: September-October 2022
Slightly Supernatural
It wasn’t until after she moved into the haunted house that Laura van den Berg’s latest novel really started coming together. The Third Hotel follows Clare, a young widow who takes a trip to Havana in the wake of her husband’s sudden death and then begins …
Issue: September-October 2018
Agree to Disagree
Last year, in the midst of all of the turmoil on campus in the aftermath of October 7, I sat down to dinner with a Muslim friend. With so many of our peers facing threats of doxxing, she told me how stressful it was to even walk to class from her dorm …
Issue: July-August 2025
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 …
Thai Tastes in Watertown
New England winters seem made for Thai basil. Fiercer than its Italian cousin, this purple-stemmed variety has a slight anise flavor and spicy kick that warms the entire body. It stars in the wide-noodle kee mao and saucy eggplant stir-fry at Watertown’s …
Issue: January-February 2021
Allston Options
During the pandemic recession, it has been amazing to read regular Boston Globe reports about eight- and nine-figure venture-capital investments in biomedical start-ups, and oversubscribed initial public offerings for medical and biotech enterprises. …
Issue: September-October 2020