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Football 2017: Harvard 14, Cornell 17
That’s why they play the games. Last Saturday at unseasonably warm Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York, in one of the most shocking Ivy League upsets of recent times, Cornell—picked to finish last in the preseason Ivy media poll—defeated Harvard …
Seeing the the Invisible World of Microbes
In rocks and soil , air, ponds and oceans, life is dominated by creatures that humans cannot see. Microbes thrive everywhere, from gardens and kitchens to the harshest environments on the planet: under polar ice, in hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the …
Issue: September-October 2017
Values and Voting Patterns
In an era of growing political polarization, new research moves beyond typical economic explanations, such as the loss of blue-collar manufacturing jobs, to offer a fresh take on how people make choices in the voting booth. Associate professor of …
Issue: January-February 2024
Harvard Committee Recommends Banning Clubs
A Harvard committee has today recommended banning all students from joining any final club or other unrecognized social organization. The policy, modeled on that of peer institutions such as Williams and Bowdoin, would take effect beginning with students …
“Bravery, Not Perfection”
On Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard, before a tent packed level full with degree candidates in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, keynote speaker Reshma Saujani, M.P.P. ’99, was telling a story about the classroom visit a few years ago that …
A Hardwood Foundation
During the 2016-2017 season, a construction crew labored outside Lavietes Pavilion, the home of the Harvard basketball teams. Making incremental progress on a project to refurbish the 91-year-old building, the workers were mostly waiting for the season to …
Issue: May-June 2017
Navigating Changing Careers
To find an era of upheaval in the nature of work comparable to the scale and impact of that underway now, professor of management practice Joe Fuller looks all the way back to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. “What did [industrialization] …
Connecting Body and Soul
A devout 35-year-old Latina woman with two young children lies in the intensive-care unit (ICU) of a Boston-area hospital, dying from cancer. With no sign of improvement, the medical team advises withdrawing life support, but the woman’s husband refuses. …
Issue: January-February 2017
Doris Salcedo Gives Form to Tragedy
Last month , Doris Salcedo returned to the Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá, the center of Colombia’s public life and host to some of her most famous artistic interventions. For more than 50 years, the country had been embroiled in the world’s longest civil …
The Science of Scarcity
Toward the end of World War II, while thousands of Europeans were dying of hunger, 36 men at the University of Minnesota volunteered for a study that would send them to the brink of starvation. Allied troops advancing into German-occupied territories with …
Issue: May-June 2015
Portrait of Peter Gomes Hung in Faculty Room
The portraits hung on the walls of the Faculty Room in University Hall—where the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) conducts its business meetings—have for some time been lightly coeducational. Historian Helen Maud Cam, installed as a professor in 1948, …
Good Design
In June 1968, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) invited civil-rights leader Whitney Young Jr. to speak at its national convention. Just two months earlier, riots had devastated dozens of American downtowns in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s …
Issue: March-April 2015
Men's Basketball Swept by Princeton and Pennsylvania
During the first 20 games of the season, junior center Zena Edosomwan anchored the Harvard men’s basketball team. He averaged a double-double (14.2 points and 10.5 rebounds per game) and saved his best performances for the biggest stages—for example, …
Listening as Activism
Leo and I sit across the table from each other in the home his family rents in Dunedin, New Zealand. The kitchen smells of roast garlic. Two days ago I cycled up the big hill to his house with all my belongings strapped and clipped to my bicycle: clothes, …
Football: Harvard 24, Columbia 16
There is a 1981 adventure film called Escape from New York, in which the hero is a character named Snake Plissken, played by Kurt Russell. Last Saturday at Robert Kraft Field, the Harvard football team produced Escape from New York, Part Deux, in which …