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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 …
Arts and Sciences Details Finances
Following publication of Harvard’s fiscal 2011 financial report , the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has now released details of its financial operations during the year ended last June 30 , fleshing out the narrative that accompanied Dean Michael …
The Couple Who Lit Up “Lawn on D”
On weekend nights in summer, hundreds of Bostonians descend upon “Lawn on D,” a small park on South Boston’s D Street. They can be seen playing board games, enjoying a beer, attending a movie screening, or just relaxing with friends and family. But most …
Tony Horwitz Travels the Keystone XL Route
Few recent Harvard Magazine articles have attracted more passionate, deeply polarized letters than “The Keystone XL Pipeline,” a Forum opinion essay by Michael B. McElroy, Butler professor of environmental studies (November-December 2013; the exchange of …
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
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
Rebooting Social Science
In the early 1930s, as a stock market crash spiraled into the Great Depression, the governors of the Federal Reserve frequently declined to provide emergency loans to banks, instead standing by as they failed. The prevailing economic orthodoxy held that …
Issue: July-August 2014
Powering Through
The buzz at the first postgame press conference wasn’t about the 66-yard breakaway that had locked up the football team’s 28-13 win over the University of San Diego, or about the 99-yard kick return that was nullified by a penalty, or about Harvard’s …
Issue: November-December 2012
Bringing Black History to Light
“These voices that exist in our collections, they’re always just waiting for us to listen to them.” That’s how Dorothy Berry, the digital collections program manager at Houghton Library, thinks about the African-American writers, thinkers, and ordinary …
Prowlers Discover Harvard Valuables
Emilie Norris and Nina Cohen are the prowlers, officially sanctioned and strictly aboveboard. They range widely throughout Harvard to conduct the University Cultural Properties Survey. Norris and Cohen are invited into administrative offices, residential …
Issue: March-April 2003
“Pugnacious” Poet and Pulitzer Prize-Winner at Phi Beta Kappa
Poet August Kleinzahler and orator Linda Greenhouse ’68, speaking in Sanders Theatre, launched the Memorial Day-shortened Commencement week at the 223rd Phi Beta Kappa literary exercises for the College on Tuesday morning, May 28. The much-honored …
Off the Shelf
The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind, by Melvin Konner, Ph.D. ’73, M.D. ’84 ( Belknap Harvard, $39.95 ). In a truly monumental work (753 pages plus references, etc.), the Emory University anthropologist/ neuroscientist/ behavioral …
Issue: July-August 2010
Health by the Numbers
"How many of you agree with the statement, 'Health is priceless'?" A robust show of hands. "How many of you went jogging this morning?" No hands. "Now what if I tell you that each hour spent jogging extends your expected life by an hour? So health does …
Women in the Sciences
Five professors and the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) are jointly pursuing creative approaches to a persistent problem: the severe underrepresentation of women faculty members in Harvard's science departments. They proceed in an …
Harvard President Drew Faust to Step Down in 2018
Drew Gilpin Faust, who assumed office as Harvard’s twenty-eighth president on July 1, 2007 , announced today that she would conclude her service at the end of the next academic year, June 30, 2018. Her planned retirement is a logical transition: The date …