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Lafayette 35, Harvard 18
With Halloween still two weeks away, hobgoblins were at play in Harvard Stadium on Saturday. Taking full advantage of early Harvard turnovers, dropped passes, and penalties at critical junctures, a determined Lafayette squad built a 28-3 halftime lead and …
Harvard Endowment’s Sweeping Overhaul
In his first annual letter , disseminated in September, Harvard Management Company (HMC) president and CEO Stephen Blyth described both sluggish recent investment returns and—far more consequentially—significant changes in asset allocation and investment …
Experimental Magic
It’s not the sabbath, but something is going on inside St. Anne & the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Brooklyn Heights. Among those in the pews are a young man in a bright yellow beanie, an elderly woman with a butterfly tattoo on her shoulder, a girl …
Issue: March-April 2022
Yale Estimates 25 Percent Endowment Decline, Phases Budget Cuts
Yale President Richard C. Levin on December 16 wrote to the Eli community , outlining a negative 13.4 percent investment return on public securities in its endowment from July 1 through October 31, and providing estimates of the value of illiquid …
"I'll Never Get Over What Happened to My Son"
About halfway through Monday evening’s panel discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School, Lezley McSpadden announced that she was considering a run for city council in Ferguson, Missouri, where in 2014 her teenage son, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by a …
Looking Back at the Lampoon’s Heyday
Doug Kenney ’68 used to go around Hollywood claiming he’d created nostalgia—or at least co-created it, and at least for a certain stripe of American male. Alongside fellow Harvard men Henry Beard ’67 and Rob Hoffmann ’67, M.B.A. ’72, Kenney made a career …
The Dark History Behind Chocolate
On a Thursday afternoon in late March, social anthropologist Carla Martin begins her lecture with a warning that might seem out of place at first in a course all about chocolate, one of the most delicious and beloved substances in the world. “You’re going …
Broadsheet Coffee Roasters
Figuring that “day-trading my stock portfolio was not the best use of my time,” former banker Aaron MacDougall ’94 chose instead to open Broadsheet Coffee Roasters, a specialty coffee house in Cambridge that aims to educate as it caffeinates. MacDougall …
Issue: March-April 2018
Modern Milk
The milk we drink today may not be nature’s perfect food,” says Ganmaa Davaasambuu, a Mongolian physician who is a fellow this year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Even as the scientific community has become interested in the effects of the …
Issue: May-June 2007
Extracurriculars
Listings by category: Seasonal Theater Film Libraries Exhibitions Nature and Science Music Seasonal • March 18, at 2 p.m. www.boxoffice.harvard.edu ; 617-496-2222 Jane Goodall speaks at Sanders Theatre, receives an award, and then signs copies of Dale …
Issue: March-April 2007
"Unsales" Pitches
These days, prescription drug ads bombard the consumer at every turn. Even so, the $4 billion spent annually on direct-to-consumer advertisingenabled by federal legislation in 1997pales by comparison to what drug companies spend on marketing to doctors. …
Issue: November-December 2006
Every Play Breaks a Record
Watch him this fall, if you can: football players of Clifton Dawson’s caliber don’t show up very often in Harvard Stadium. The record books, in fact, have never seen his equal: Dawson has already set every single-season and career rushing record that …
Issue: September-October 2006
Sex and the Inner City
The sexual and romantic habits of urban black males have long been a subject of scrutiny. Forty years ago, the Moynihan Report— The Negro Family: The Case for National Action —decried the prevalence of female-headed households in urban ghettoes …
Issue: March-April 2006
“This Beautiful Machine”
Paola Arlotta is searching for the words to describe the clusters of cells, incubating quietly in a small room next to her laboratory, that have profoundly reshaped her life’s work—not just the how or how much or how fast of her research, but the very …
Issue: July-August 2023
Your Vote Counts
Alumni will choose five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) in annual elections this spring. To be counted, votes must be received by noon on June 3. Results will be announced at the HAA’s annual …
Issue: May-June 2005