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That Championship Season
… The Harvard Rugby Football Club team is not like any other … seasonal pig roasts, a tribal retreat evoking both the Lord of the Flies and Animal House . Self-governed, they operate with a kind of punk-rock anarchistic do-it-yourself edginess that even …
Events of the Week
… The commencement festivities conclude with addresses by … JUNE 5 50th Reunion Symposium, at 1:30. "A Half Century of Change: Race, Admissions, and the Harvard Community," … Jones, and John Simon; moderated by Adams University Professor emeritus Bernard Bailyn. Sanders Theatre. Top …
The Way of the Long Strings
… To be a virtuoso musician and a college student at the same time is somewhat like forcing two people into one … —skills that develop through three or four hours of practice every evening. Photograph by Stu Rosner Then, that little matter of studying. Carter, a psychology concentrator, does her …
Issue: March-April 2003
To the Rescue
… On the day Kabul fell to the Taliban—August 15, 2021—Omaid … Sharifi was in his usual place: on the street with a team of artists, painting a mural on one of the concrete blast … by David Peterson Still, August 15 took Sharifi by surprise. He and fellow activists spent half the day painting in …
Issue: January-February 2023
Arts and Engineering
… substantive academic planning at Harvard is going on all the time, including curricular innovations and faculty … Harvard Magazine spoke in January with Martignetti professor of philosophy Sean Kelly, dean of arts and … Kelly’s home department—the number of concentrators has risen dramatically. “When I arrived in 2006,” he says, “we …
Issue: March-April 2025
A New Story of Suffrage
… If the women’s suffrage movement took place today, what would … to spread the word about their cause. Today’s world of online activism can feel deprived of that vitality—which … during this period, including industrialization and the rise of wage labor, might provide a richer explanation for …
Issue: May-June 2019
The Health Benefits of Owning a Pet
… Today is National Pet Day , and pet owners have another reason to celebrate: their pets are helping them live … to die,” said Harvard Medical School clinical assistant professor Beth Frates, citing the American Heart Association’s … In a talk yesterday at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Frates and Megan Mueller, associate …
The Federal Fisc
… L ONG BEFORE the presidential primaries, or a paralyzing pandemic, … by the national elections, that mattered to the future of the country—and that would probably be addressed … terms of health value received for dollars spent, may surprise you. It has certainly proven resistant to political …
Karen Dynan , Douglas Elmendorf
Issue: May-June 2020
New Members of Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of HAA
… The newly elected members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the …
The Language of Emotion
… feeling “angry” or “distressed” or “dejected,” what do they really mean? Psychologists vigorously debate whether … concepts mean, and how people understand them, is part of Nook’s work with Leah Somerville, an associate professor … as a function of age, “was almost a complete surprise to us,” Somerville says. Nook had expected …
Issue: July-August 2018
Harvard College Admits Class of 2026
… The College has admitted 1,954 of 61,220 applicants to the … rate last year —the arithmetical result of the continuing rise in the applicant pool. Looking ahead, Harvard has …
Alumni Cheer on Harvard
… The 2025 rendition of Harvard Alumni Day, which brought … for President Alan M. Garber, who has become the face of Harvard’s fight with the federal government. And while … choral groups serenaded the crowd with “Radcliffe, Now We Rise to Greet Thee.” “No institution is without flaws” A …
What Can Be Used to Treat COVID-19?
… who runs a two-hour-and-thirty-minute marathon changing their sneakers and all of a sudden running a two-hour marathon,” said Harvard … differently.” As new variants emerge and cases rise around the country (particularly in the Northeast), …
"The Doctor's Song"
… During the past several weeks, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept … Rafael Campo has been writing poems to help make sense of the crisis. Below is a draft of one still in process, but … agreed to share. THE DOCTOR’S SONG The ventilator’s rise and fall. The ambulance’s siren call. The yellow gown’s …
A Democracy of Opportunity
… for a second term as president by pressing to rebuild the United States as “a democracy of opportunity.” At the Democratic National Convention, FDR … that is becoming new again. Before the twentieth-century rise of economics as a discipline, thinkers as varied as …
Issue: January-February 2022