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Seasonal The Game • November 19 at noon The 128th gridiron competition against Yale takes place in New Haven this year. www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/index Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society Christmas Concert • December 3 at 8 p.m. …
Issue: November-December 2011
Writing Crime into Race
“You should have a record.” That sentence dropped like a hammer inside the meeting room where Khalil Gibran Muhammad, then 21 years old, was sitting across the table from a Philadelphia police-union lawyer, answering questions about the day he’d briefly …
Issue: July-August 2018
Words to Live By
The graduates heard in multiple ways how they might lead their lives. Herewith, four samples. Full texts and audio and video recordings of these and other Commencement week speeches are available at harvardmag.com/commencement-2011 . “Finish Your Own …
Issue: July-August 2011
Fathoming Metabolism
A thimbleful of your blood. To Robert Gerszten, that’s like a window on your well-being. In some cases, it may even let him see into the future of your health. Gerszten and his colleague Greg Lewis work at the leading edge of an emerging new …
Issue: May-June 2011
Radcliffe Ramps Up
Things are different at Fay House. As the academic year begins, Drew Gilpin Faust, the Civil War historian who is the first dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RI), has made sweeping changes in programs and personnel, including a series of …
Issue: September-October 2001
Science and Politics and Stem Cells
Scientists became alarmed this spring when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) canceled a meeting to review applications for federally funded stem-cell research. Stem cells are considered the most promising area of research for treating many human …
Books behind Bars
An “earnest Yeshiva boy,” Avi Steinberg ’02 never thought he’d spend his days in prison. But in 2005, when offered the post of librarian at the Suffolk County House of Correction in Boston, he took it, glad to trade writing obituaries for the Boston Globe …
Issue: January-February 2011
The Mating Game
Each year Harvard students and prospective employers begin a complicated rite of courtship, complete with flirting (invitations), wooing (interviews), and proposals (offers). There is even a matchmaker, the Office of Career Services (OCS), making sure …
"Habits Are Values in Disguise": The Phi Beta Kappa Exercises
The Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, held the Tuesday morning of each Commencement week in Sanders Theatre, are in a way the most intellectual and cultural of the graduation events, complete with poems, song, and a history-laden oration (see program ). …
President Drew Gilpin Faust's Report to the Alumni
President Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard’s 28th president, delivers her Report to the Alumni at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. Distinguished guests, graduates and your families, alumni and alumnae, colleagues and friends – witches, …
Storybook Ending
Rebounding from a rocky start, the football team defeated its first six Ivy League opponents and scripted a stunning finale by routing a previously unbeaten Yale squad, 37-6. The Yale Bowl upset dashed Old Eli’s hopes of completing a perfect season, and …
Issue: January-February 2008
Modern and Historic
More than 500 people turned out in June for the inaugural gala picnic at Philip Johnson’s Glass House , in New Canaan, Connecticut. The long-awaited event raised $750,000 for further preservation of the most celebrated modern house in the Northeast. …
Issue: September-October 2007
An “Oracle of Aqua”
“Ours is a society of sensual eunuchs, impotent to the callings of the wildness within and as a result, the pull of that which resides outside,” writes Robert Lawrence France in his book Deep Immersion: The Experience of Water . “Transcending our minds, …
Issue: January-February 2007
Extracurriculars
Enjoy a range of offerings in and around Harvard Square this winter, from German folk dancing, Christmas carols, and a Da de los Muertos festival to contemporary Chinese art, French documentaries, and an exhibit on arthropods. Seasonal Exhibitions Nature …
Issue: November-December 2006
Surprise Endings
It was the championship season that wasn’t. Heavily favored to retain the Ivy League title, the football team rolled over its first five opponents, outscoring them 205-67. Then came the October Surprise. In a calamitous fourth quarter at Princeton, …
Issue: January-February 2013