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Finding Their Stride?
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Entering Saturday’s Ivy League opener against Dartmouth, the Harvard men’s basketball team had thrived or perished based on the performance of reigning Ivy League Player of the Year Wesley …
An Undergraduate Life in the Theater
The Google Calendar listing the conflicts for cast members looks terrifying. One has a class section from 6 to 7 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, two others have a cappella rehearsals from 7 to 10 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and a fourth is in another …
Issue: January-February 2015
Harvard Sculptor Justin Peyser
Near the woods behind Justin Peyser’s Long Island home sits a sculpture he built from cedar planks and giant metal rings. Titled Sanctuary, the work is massive, almost like an open-air room, or a stand of trees. It invites visitors to step inside, but …
Issue: March-April 2025
University People
Freshman Dean Graduates Thomas A. Dingman Photograph by Kris Snibbe/HPAC Six months after celebrating his fiftieth College reunion ( Commencement Confetti , July-August 2017, page 19), dean of freshmen Thomas A. Dingman said he will step down next June. …
Issue: January-February 2018
The Justice Gap
Almost a century ago , a young Boston lawyer named Reginald Heber Smith published a landmark book called Justice and the Poor . It was about how people struggling economically were faring in the American legal system and why American lawyers needed to …
Issue: November-December 2017
A “Magic Bus” for City Kids
The magic bus campus , designed by professor of urban design and planning Rahul Mehrotra, aims to ease cultural divides starting with India’s youngest citizens. The name of the nongovernmental organization (NGO) refers to the bus that brings children from …
Issue: May-June 2012
Marla Frederick Named Dean of Harvard Divinity School
Marla Frederick, formerly a professor of African and African American studies and the study of religion in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), will become dean of the Harvard Divinity School on January 1. A scholar of the African American …
Centered on Community
With natural disaster (Hurricane Harvey) and cultural confrontation (in Charlottesville and elsewhere) occupying the national conversation, Harvard leaders chose to focus on this community’s purposes and values as they welcomed the College class of 2021 …
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Issue: November-December 2017
From “New College Theatre” to Farkas Hall
The New College Theatre , created from 2005 to 2007 by new construction behind, and a renovation of, the façade of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals venue, finally has a name. The University announced today that Andrew L. Farkas ’82 had endowed the complex in …
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. …
Rapid Tests, in Time for Fall Surge
Last week, the first rapid, inexpensive, coronavirus tests were finally approved for home use by the Food and Drug Administration. These self-administered tests, which don’t require a physician’s prescription, can be used by anyone to determine whether …
John Harvard, Reader
T ourists adore John Harvard, the statue, for their Yard photo ops. Development officers revere the man for his cash-giving precedent. Now, Richard Dey ’73, who was poetry editor for The Harvard Advocate , has performed the seemingly impossible act of …
Issue: May-June 2023
Designing Good Lives
MASS Design’s domestic initiatives address the basic elements of a good life: housing, health, food, and sustainability. Most are led from MASS Design’s Boston office, the firm’s operational hub. Though he served as lead architect on The Embrace memorial, …
Issue: May-June 2023
Seeking Climate Solutions
The University has entered a new phase of engagement with the global climate-change problem, as the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability funded its first substantial grants to five interdisciplinary, cross-school research clusters. The …
Issue: May-June 2023
COVID-19 May Be Much More Contagious Than We Thought
One of the basic indicators for determining the possible course of the coronavirus pandemic is how many other people an infected individual will infect. In epidemiological science, this factor is called the basic reproduction number, or R nought (R 0 ). …