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Football: Harvard 28, Columbia 21
It was the week the Cubs won the World Series. So why not add to the weirdness by having Columbia beat Harvard? For one half at Harvard Stadium this past Saturday, such a bizarre outcome seemed more than possible. Sacking Crimson quarterback Joe Viviano …
Football: Harvard 31, Georgetown 17
“The game was not as close as the score might indicate.” The most extreme case of this often jocular athletics adage occurred this past Friday night at Harvard Stadium. On a dank, sometimes rainy evening before a small, hardy assemblage, Harvard pushed …
Finding Their Rhythm
At a pre-season press conference in October, Stemberg men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker sat on a leather couch in the glass-encased lounge overlooking Lavietes Pavilion and spoke cautiously about the team’s prospects. Although the Crimson had …
House Renewal Gains and Challenges
Two days before Commencement, the College quietly published the summary of a “Strategic Assessment Report” on House renewal, the $1-billion-plus “first-phase” program to modernize the eight Neo-Georgian undergraduate residences along the Charles River …
Issue: September-October 2016
A Fast Start
In April , sprinter Ngozi Musa, approaching the end of her freshman season on Harvard’s track and field team, was telling a story about the time she set her starting blocks incorrectly at the world junior championships in Eugene, Oregon. It was 2014, her …
Issue: July-August 2016
Battling Eating Disorders
When Amanda Moreno Garcia, M.D. ’26, joined an eating disorder awareness club as a freshman majoring in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, she did it to support a friend. “My friend had lived experience [of an eating disorder] and was really …
Issue: January-February 2024
“Going Through the Fire”
In November 2007, in just his sixth game as Harvard’s coach, Tommy Amaker and the men’s basketball team faced off against Providence College, a traditional power from the more-prominent Big East Conference. The matchup provided an early barometer of …
Football: Penn 35, Harvard 25
Gone, gone with the wind. At gale-swept Harvard Stadium last Saturday, the Crimson’s 22-game victory streak was blown away by a Penn team that used big plays on offense and an opportunistic defense to win 35-25. The defeat—Harvard’s first since a 51-48, …
The Undergraduate: Running Over Murphy's Law
Had anyone asked me a year ago about my biggest pet peeves, I would have said I hated running (too many bad memories of middle-school gym) and getting wet in the rain (nothing can tame my hair in the presence of humidity). It was not entirely surprising, …
Issue: September-October 2015
Coronavirus Mutations Threaten to Worsen Pandemic
Despite the race to deploy vaccines, two new variants of SARS-CoV-2 that are more transmissible than the prevailing strain are poised to amplify spread of the pandemic worldwide, complicating control efforts, and changing the prospects for a return to …
The Method to (March) Madness?
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report The exchange began plainly enough. Shortly after noon on Saturday, October 25, an attendee at the Harvard men’s basketball coaching clinic asked Harvard head coach Tommy Amaker why he allows his …
“Out of the Ashes”
In the middle of Shin Sang-ok’s 1958 film The Flower in Hell , a Korean woman dances for a group of American soldiers on a U.S. Army base in Seoul. Behind her, a band plays a cheery mambo. The camera seems to adopt the gaze of the soldiers, panning down …
Happenings in Hartford
The Connecticut capital is often seen as a bland, bypassable insurance industry hub, a messy tangle of highways endured en route to the real city of New York. But Hartford, a seat of history, arts, and culture, has a beating heart of its own. Marking …
Issue: July-August 2023
Cruel and Unjust
For a nation “conceived in Liberty,” as Abraham Lincoln emphasized with a capital L in hand-writing his Gettysburg Address, it should be shocking that the United States has locked up almost a quarter of the prisoners in the world despite having less than …
Issue: March-April 2025
To Catch a Crawdad
During exam week, a time normally spent frantically watching lecture videos late into the night, I instead found myself driving a 16-foot, mustard-yellow moving truck through a spring snowstorm in Pennsylvania. As I white-knuckled the steering wheel and …
Issue: September-October 2020