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Football: Harvard 45-Princeton 13
… When Andy Aurich was introduced last winter as the new Thomas Stephenson family head coach for Harvard football, there was an undercurrent of grumbling, not only that he had never been a head coach … energy, the hard work they put in this week, I’m not surprised by the outcome. I fully expected it.” But he did …
Sarah Karmon in “listening mode”
… Sarah Karmon, the new executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association … as deputy executive director, since 2018, Karmon saw the rise of alumni shared-interest groups (SIGs), contested …
Issue: March-April 2023
Eye on the Universe
… This fall, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis will pay a final visit to the … back to Earth images that have altered our understanding of the universe. The Hubble helped confirm the existence of … image . Galaxy Cluster Abell 2218. “The arcs in this image arise from background galaxies whose shapes are distorted by …
Jonathan Shaw , Jennifer Carling
Issue: July-August 2008
Chimpanzees and the Law
… closest living relatives as pets," declared Jane Goodall, the renowned primatologist. "You can buy them on the … She spoke at a symposium on "The Evolving Legal Status of Chimpanzees" cosponsored by Harvard Law School's Student Animal Legal Defense Fund and the nonprofit Chimpanzee Collaboratory; the September conference …
Issue: January-February 2003
Unnerved by the Urge to Win
… Paul Hoffman ’78 was a child chess prodigy and now, after a … chess, he has started playing again. He has been president of Encyclopaedia Britannica and editor in chief of Discover … and madness. His new book, King’s Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World’s Most Dangerous Game —chess, of …
Issue: November-December 2007
Farm the Yard
… When Harvard was founded, most of its students arrived rich in practical experience, and in need of some abstraction : colonists knew how to plow, how to build, how to work the physical world. Higher education was for adding a layer …
Issue: September-October 2011
Off the Shelf
… House paperback original, $14 ). This debut novel, begun as the author’s senior thesis (she has since graduated from the … family and marriage—arranged, or for love—in the context of Sri Lanka’s horrific, now generational, civil war. Free … and election-year skirmishing over trade pacts, a professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of …
Issue: July-August 2008
Advancing the Allston Enterprise Campus
… The University announced today that Steven D. Fessler will become head of enterprise real estate, effective April 18. The appointment to …
The Quotes Queue
… Alongside the March-April cover story, “Quotable Harvard,” compiled by … is ridiculous….”—Attributed to John Jacob Astor IV, class of 1888, aboard the Titanic “It’s not easy getting up here and saying nothing. It takes a lot of preparation.”—Barry Toiv ’77, then serving as President …
Issue: May-June 2011
Off the Shelf
… Where Art and Science Meet, essays by Stephen Jay Gould, professor of geology, Agassiz professor of zoology, and curator of invertebrate paleontology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and photographs by …
Back, but Not to the U.S.S.R.
… On the sweltering afternoon of July 8, more than 100 onlookers … to ring out over Cambridge. … On the sweltering afternoon of July 8, more than 100 onlookers crowded Winthrop Street …
Issue: September-October 2008
Ivy Madness on the Move
… In late February , the Ivy League announced a pre-determined rotation of campus sites for its basketball tournaments, and the … The Philadelphia Inquirer’ s Mike Jensen wrote: “My view of the Ivy League’s decision to play its postseason …
From Daguerreotype to Photoshop
… In the photograph, Henry James Jr., the future eminent … are posed for a daguerreotype in the New York City studio of Mathew Brady, who several years later would make his … people were very disturbed. It had to do, in part, with the rise of journalism as a modern institution and a new ethical …
Issue: January-February 2009
“You Can’t Do It Alone”
… to be here at Harvard," comic actress Amy Poehler told the crowd of graduating seniors and their parents at Class Day on May 25. (Scroll down to view the video of her speech.) "I graduated from Boston College, which some …
“Absolutely Beautiful”
… ’33, G ’40, had family ties, extending back to great-grandfather Theophilus Wylie, to Indiana University. But the campus community where he spent nearly all of his life was Cambridge, not Bloomington. The Harvard … studies in experimental psychology and the physiology of perception (stemming from William James and Hugo …
Issue: November-December 2012