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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
Allston Planning Explained
A room in the Holyoke Center Arcade has been fitted out to help Harvard planners communicate the University’s aspirations for an Allston campus. The move follows the release of a 40-page interim planning report last June that was intended to generate …
Issue: January-February 2006
Thrills, Baseball & Other
With this talk of thrills we are not of course referring to the 2015 Red Sox. We are harking back to the happier days of the 1927 Crimson baseball team— “one of the best of all time,” according to The Second H Book of Harvard Athletics . Isadore Zarakov …
Issue: September-October 2015
“This global, diverse, vibrant community”
As a classics concentrator and classical pianist, Tracy “Ty” Moore II ’06 still found time as an undergraduate to perfect the “Flying Death Necklace.” The stunt, performed in the Harvard South Asian Association’s Ghungroo show , required him to stand on …
Issue: September-October 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 ). …
Harvard Sustainability Report Updated
The University has released an updated sustainability report , detailing its progress from fiscal year 2006 through fiscal year 2014 in five core areas—energy and emissions, campus operations, nature and ecosystems, health and well-being, and culture and …
Pre-Pixel Portraits
Long before selfies, Harvard graduates had a powerful instinct to preserve their class identities in portraiture: 85 of the 88 members of the College class of 1852 traveled to Boston to sit for daguerreotypes, unique images captured on silvered copper …
Issue: May-June 2015
Cryptic Puzzle: “Dropouts”
Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution You can find all puzzles published in Harvard Magazine between 1986 and 1998 at John de Cuevas’s website, www.puzzlecrypt.com, under Harvard Puzzles . You will also find additional puzzles …
Brevia
Press Person George Andreou ’87, who joined Alfred A. Knopf in 1990—rising to vice president and senior editor—has been appointed director of Harvard University Press, beginning in September. He succeeds William P. Sisler, who led the press from 1990 …
Issue: September-October 2017
Honoris Causa
Five men and three women received honorary degrees at Commencement. University provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands in the following order, and President Drew Faust read the citations, concluding with the recipient’s name and degree. For fuller …
Issue: July-August 2014
Class-Scheduling Conundrums
With regulatory approval in hand for the Allston facility that will house much of its engineering and applied sciences teaching and research , the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) now faces a diplomatically delicate challenge to all its professors: …
The 2018 Harvard Medalists
Three alumni —and surprise honorand Drew Gilpin Faust—received the Harvard Medal for extraordinary service to the University during the Harvard Alumni Association’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. Robert Coles ’50 is a child …
Issue: July-August 2018
Harvard Sundered
In a November Letter from Israel, chillingly titled “In the Cities of Killing” (adapted from Hayim Nahman Bailik’s 1904 poem about the Kishinev pogrom), New Yorker editor David Remnick, who has reported from the region for decades, quoted Sam Bahour, an …
Issue: January-February 2024
Transforming Portraiture and the World
Intimidating, stoic, yet somehow accessible, Nobel laureate and novelist Toni Morrison, Litt.D. ’89, emerges from the white background of a painting by contemporary portraitist Robert McCurdy. According to a new exhibition catalogue published by the …
The Crimson Triumphant
The past quarter-century was an era of prosperity for Harvard athletics. Varsity teams won 184 Ivy League championships in 17 different sports, while 11 teams captured national titles in crew, fencing, hockey, lacrosse, sailing, and squash. More than 30 …
Issue: September-October 2011