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Football 2018: Harvard 36, San Diego 14
On October 18, 1924, Illinois running back Red Grange had a quarter for the ages against Michigan, scoring touchdowns on runs of 95, 67, 56 and 44 yards—all in the game’s first 12 minutes. On Saturday at Harvard Stadium, Harvard running back Aaron …
Faculty Meeting Summary
In a remarkable meeting held on the Ides of March in the Loeb Drama Center, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) twice voted to register its lack of confidence in and concerns over the presidency of Lawrence H. Summers. The meeting followed highly …
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Scientific Ventures Albert J. Weatherhead Celia J. Weatherhead Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Flexible funding for innovative research in basic and applied sciences throughout the University is the goal of a …
Issue: March-April 2005
Money Matters
An updated, second edition of Managing Harvard’s Resources —with reports from the University’s treasurer, James F. Rothenberg, and chief financial officer, Elizabeth Mora, vice president for finance; simplified financial statements; and details on …
Issue: March-April 2007
Imagine That!
A woman repairing an automobile—and showing us the tops of her stockings! This is not a “True Woman,” domestic, docile, dependent on a man. No, she is the “New Woman,” freed from whalebone corsets and stays, spirited, athletic, demanding a right to …
Issue: March-April 2007
Elsewhere
Since 2001, College students’ international experiences during their Harvard years—formal study abroad, research, work or public service, internships—have evolved from the “unusual” to the “almost routine.” So reported Gutman professor of Latin American …
Issue: January-February 2006
“Drip, Drip, Drip”
Editor's note: Though winter and spring sports were forced to end early due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were still moments of triumph for Crimson athletes. We hope you enjoy this story about the 2020 Ivy League fencing championship, held this …
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Pudding Pluralism On the occasion of honoring (and roasting) Woman of the Year Mila Kunis—a star of That 70s Show, Family Guy, Black Swan, and other series and films—on January 25 (shown above in the traditional parade), Hasty Pudding Theatricals …
Issue: March-April 2018
HAA News
Share and Share Alike The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has taken a big step toward adding shared interest groups (SIGs) to the list of alumni organizations it serves. Earlier this year, the HAA board approved a policy enabling the association to …
Issue: May-June 2004
Football: Harvard 14, Yale 21
You can’t win ’em all. Harvard’s football team proved that adage this past Saturday, losing The Game for the first time in 10 years when it was beaten by fired-up underdog Yale 21-14. The Crimson finished its season at 7-3 overall and 5-2 in the Ivy …
Harvard Endowment Increases 5.7 Percent to $39.2 Billion
Highlights for fiscal 2018: •The endowment’s value was $39.2 billion as of this past June 30, the end of fiscal year 2018—an increase of $2.1 billion (5.7 percent) from $37.1 billion a year earlier . The gains in the year just ended bring the value of …
Conceptualizing Small
The nanoscale world is the realm of the truly small. One nanometer is a billionth of a meter, about 100,000 times thinner than the sheet of paper on which these words are printed. If you could shrink to that height, atoms would be from ankle- to …
Issue: January-February 2010
Harvard in Drag: The Collected Works
In the bowels of the Hasty Pudding building at 12 Holyoke Street, a clubhouse with theater built in 1888, is the so-called Elephant Room, a narrow, bare-bulb, basement cell made glorious by its inhabitants--the costumes of Harvard men in drag from years …
Issue: March-April 2002
The Intellectual Clash Over Final Clubs
Harvard College administrators may not have anticipated the fierce and intensely public debate that would erupt in response to the announcement at the end of April that members of historically male final clubs, Greek organizations, and other off-campus, …
Postseason, Interrupted
On Christmas Eve , the Harvard men’s basketball team dined at Roy’s, in Waikiki, feasting on short ribs and mahi mahi. It had been an extraordinary 48 hours. After arriving in Hawaii with a 3-6 record, the weakest squad in the eight-team Diamond Head …
Issue: May-June 2016