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“Not Meant to Be”
When the Ivy League announced that Harvard would host the 2020 conference basketball tournaments, it appeared to set up an ideal situation for the Crimson teams. Both would be led by talented seniors playing in a gym where they had a combined 80-18 career …
Issue: May-June 2020
"Crossing Boundaries"
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust, founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will become Harvard’s twenty-eighth president on July 1. She was elected by the Corporation, Harvard’s senior governing board, with the consent of the Board of …
Issue: March-April 2007
Harvard Football Great Performances: Barry Wood ’32
OCTOBER 19, 1929: BARRY WOOD BEATS ARMY, 20-20 WHEN LAST WE SPOKE , following Harvard’s 50-43, double-overtime loss to Yale in November —a day which will live in infamy, to employ the phrase made immortal by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, A.B. 1904, LL.D. …
50 Marathons in 50 States: Scott Kline
Harvard Law School graduate Scott Kline ’88 ran his second Boston Marathon on April 15th, 2024—but his 51st marathon total. Over the past decade, Scott's mission has been running a marathon in all 50 states. … Harvard Law School's Scott Kline ’88. … 50 …
Upending U.S. Politics
Among the many ways U.S. politics has been transformed in the past decade, the rise of nationwide citizens’ activist groups devoted to resisting a president—the Tea Party on the right, and Indivisible on the left—has been especially remarkable. These …
Issue: March-April 2020
Fall River: Phoenix Rising?
The “P” word has long haunted Fall River. “People come to the city, see the Braga Bridge and waterfront, the historic buildings, and say, ‘Hey, this place looks like a mini-San Francisco—this place has so much potential! ’” says Patrick Norton, executive …
Issue: May-June 2023
Harvard Class of ’17 Yield Reaches 82 Percent
Of the 2,029 students offered admission to the Harvard College class of 2017 (a mere 5.8 percent of the 35,023-strong applicant pool), 82 percent have said yes, the College’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid announced today. That “yield”—the highest …
Bringing Pride and Plans to Life
In Uganda , there is a hierarchy of houses. The poorest live in huts made of dung. Mud is a step up; brick with mud walls, one more. Next comes brick-and-mortar; stucco over the brick says someone has really made it. The roof makes a statement too: it can …
Bruce Jenkins
As an undergraduate working for the New York University cinema studies department, Bruce Jenkins operated a technological device that has changed but little in the last century: the film projector. "I love it--it's the last vestige of the machine age in …
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
Winter Sports
Track and Field Sprinter Gabby Thomas ’19 has been breaking program records since she joined the Crimson in 2015. This winter, she made history, becoming the fastest collegiate woman to run the indoor 200-meter. Her 22.38 mark in the final heat of the …
Issue: May-June 2018
Advanced Standing Reduced
Following its December discussion of a proposal to eliminate Harvard College course credit for Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) courses—thereby limiting students’ ability to fast-track their A.B. or graduate with a simultaneous …
Issue: May-June 2018
The Language of Movement
I n the finale of the Netflix series Living with Yourself, Paul Rudd’s character gets into a fight with himself—or, rather, with a clone of himself. That new-and-improved version has spent the previous seven and a half episodes tormenting the original, a …
Issue: January-February 2020
Open Book: Hiding in a Tick Mattress
In 2015, while she was working on The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility (Harvard, 2018), Erin I. Kelly, Ph.D. ’95, professor of philosophy at Tufts, interviewed Winfred Rembert at a Connecticut bookstore. His life obviously …
Issue: September-October 2021
Making Voters Care About Climate Change
One day about four years ago, John Marshall’s youngest son came home from a class on climate change at Harvard Extension School and told his father, “Dad, you have to do something about this.” The 17-year-old (now a junior at Harvard) had been learning …