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Next Man Up
Since last November 23, when Harvard thrashed Yale, 34-7, in New Haven to cap a 9-1 season and earn a share of the Ivy football championship (its fifteenth), the offseason had been tumultuous, for football and the Harvard program. The National Football …
Issue: November-December 2014
Bitter Ending
If any doubt remained that the favored Harvard football team would be in for a real bulldogfight against Yale in the 133rd edition of The Game on November 19 at Harvard Stadium, it vanished with the second-half kickoff. The score was 7-7 and the Crimson …
Issue: January-February 2017
The Elephant in the Room: Sports and Sexism
Last Friday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard, an alumni panel discussion on women in sports—long-planned, and yet suddenly of the moment—opened with what moderator Janet Rich-Edwards ’84 called “the elephant in the room”: the recent revelations that the …
The Adaptive Law of the Land
In an exaltation of deans, the acting dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the institute's dean-elect welcomed dean of Stanford Law School Kathleen Sullivan, J.D. '81, on April 28 to launch the institute's series of inaugural lectures …
John Stilgoe on “Acute Observation”
On a Tuesday in late July, as the last few students filter in from the evening swelter to a basement classroom in the Carpenter Center, John Stilgoe, the Orchard professor in the history of landscape—and as unique a figure as there is on the Harvard …
Teach a Man to Fish
Having spent the last days of the groundfishing season on the open ocean east of Cape Cod, Russell Sherman ’71 chugged into Gloucester Harbor in April and docked his Lady Jane at the Jodrey State Fish Pier. Running the 72-foot trawler around the clock, he …
Issue: July-August 2016
Prosperity and Equality
In a populist presidential election year pervaded by economic discontents—lagging middle-class incomes, rising inequality, and the purported workforce displacements caused by immigrants, globalization, and free-trade agreements—the Radcliffe Institute …
Danielle Allen: What Do COVID-19 and Extreme Inequality Mean for American Democracy?
America's response to the COVID-19 crisis, says political philosopher Danielle Allen , represents "the biggest possible announcement one could have of the broken state of affairs" in our nation's democracy. Allen has helped lead one of the most …
How the Ball Bounced
On a Saturday evening in early March 2011, Harvard men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker stood in the team’s locker room preparing to give one of the most important speeches of his Crimson career. In just a few minutes, Harvard would take the floor against …
Issue: May-June 2015
A New Era in Allston
After years of discussions and planning—and more than a quarter-century after the University began buying land for development in Allston—Harvard and its community and development partners are poised to effect significant change there. In coming months, …
Issue: March-April 2015
Just Perfect
Slate-gray skies and trepidation shrouded the home side of Harvard Stadium late in the afternoon of Saturday, November 22. In the big picture, the anxiety seemed unwarranted. The Crimson football team already had clinched a share of the 2014 Ivy title. It …
Issue: January-February 2015
Brevia
I Tatti’s Leadership Transition Dante scholar Lino Pertile —Pescosolido professor of Romance languages and literatures, and the retiring Eliot House master—has been appointed director of Villa I Tatti, the University’s Center for Italian Renaissance …
Issue: March-April 2010
An Artful Business
Aiming to create their own “art stimulus package” during the 2008-09 economic downturn, Emma Katz ’06 and her sister, Ani, put together an exhibit at the Brooklyn Art Space. Her job as an assistant to a Broadway producer had evaporated with the recession …
Issue: September-October 2013
E-mail Implications
A report on Harvard’s investigations of resident deans’ e-mail accounts last year —prepared by attorney Michael B. Keating, LL.B. ’65, at President Drew Faust’s request, delivered to a Corporation subcommittee July 15, and released yesterday—provides a …
Fracking’s Future
Supplies of natural gas now economically recoverable from shale in the United States could accommodate the country’s domestic demand for natural gas at current levels of consumption for more than a hundred years: an economic and strategic boon, and, at …
Issue: January-February 2013