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The Rub on the Pub
Undergraduates will soon be able to relax in a new campus pub, scheduled to open early in April. The gathering spot is part of a $4.5-million overhaul of Loker Commons, the student space below Memorial Hall, which will include music practice rooms, places …
Issue: March-April 2007
Digging Deep into Chinese History
Editor’s note: Hudson professor of archaeology Rowan K. Flad, a scholar of ancient China (read about his work in “ Chinese Pottery: The First Five Millennia ”), recently returned from Gansu Province, where he and colleagues undertook their first full …
“A Moment of Absolute Moral Clarity”
About perhaps no other public issue does President Drew Faust feel more passionately—nor express herself more personally—than America’s history and continuing legacy of racial division. In the spring of 2003, when she was dean of the Radcliffe Institute, …
Football: 9-0
After a pair of 5-5 seasons sullied by inopportune turnovers and second-half meltdowns, head football coach Tim Murphy took a new pedagogical tack. "You can talk about a hundred things to your team during the preseason, but I only talked about two," he …
Issue: January-February 2002
Transitions Gradual and Cataclysmic
Earth, with its mountains and rivers, forests and grasslands, oceans and marshes, is home to an extraordinary range of life. It is also the source of the food—and air—that sustain humanity, and of the natural resources—coal and oil, gold and diamonds—that …
Issue: May-June 2021
An Arts Advance
President Drew Faust and Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith have announced a central-administration-funded initiative to develop an undergraduate concentration in theater, dance, and media. The proposal must undergo the formal review …
Rooks and Reverse Layups
Chess was the game Ed Saunders, father of Wesley Saunders ’15, recommended to his son and played with him: chess, the father said, would teach young Wes to think a few steps ahead. Apparently it worked, and not just with pawns and bishops. Last spring, in …
Issue: November-December 2014
“Chorus of Soloists”
Recent months have brought so many reasons to worry about China’s rise: rapidly expanding military capabilities, an increasingly assertive foreign policy, deepening tensions with regional neighbors, and a new leadership that as one of its first acts …
Issue: July-August 2014
University People
Scholars at the Summit Photograph by Aynsley Ford Vamsi K. Mootha Photograph by Kris Snibbe/HPAC Jeff W. Lichtman Photograph by Kris Snibbe/HPAC Andrew W. Murray The National Academy of Sciences has elected 11 professors to membership. From Harvard …
Issue: July-August 2014
The End of the “Course”?
On April Fools’ Day in 2009, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) announced the end of printed versions of its iconic Courses of Instruction catalog, along with the undergraduate and graduate student handbooks, the Q Guide, and the faculty-instruction …
An “Egalitarian Curiosity”
What obstacles impede the free exchange of ideas in college classrooms? And how might they be overcome? “Free Speech on Campus,” a September 20 talk by Vuilleumier professor of philosophy Edward “Ned” Hall that was followed by a response from Conant …
Impermanent Art
The darkest recesses of our refrigerators can harbor ghastly things: spoiled milk, moldy bread, putrid fruit. When their odors offend, we grimace, then throw them out. But what if that fetid banana is art? What if the hallmarks of its decay--insects, …
Issue: January-February 2002
Fiscal Portrait
The University’s annual financial report for fiscal year 2013 (ended last June 30), published in November ( download PDF ), reveals a nearly 5 percent growth in operating revenue, to just more than $4.21 billion; a greater increase in expenses—up 6 …
Issue: January-February 2014
Football: Harvard 41, Holy Cross 35
Waking up on the morning after, players and fans on both sides might have wondered if they’d dreamed it. With just over three minutes to play, Harvard had driven 84 yards to tie Holy Cross, 21-21, and force an overtime tiebreaker. After two overtime …
A Fever for Chèvre
For Max Sandvoss ’02 and his brother, Trystan, the chores associated with making small-batch artisanal cheese typically begin before dawn and, during western New York’s cold, snowy winters, end well after dark. Their First Light Farm and Creamery in East …
Issue: September-October 2013