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Harvard 24, Brown 21
… The Ivy League’s defending co-champions went head-to-head on … 24-21, surviving a dramatic Brown rally in the final minute of play. Junior Collier Winters, in his second start at … 15-yard pass to the six-foot-six Luft, who made a high-rise catch at the back of the end zone. Leading 24-14, …
The “Little Object That Speaks Loudly”
… pipes, and fancy baubles—including, most recently, a pair of silver-alloy cufflinks: these are the small pieces of life at early Harvard that archaeologists have dug up …
Football: Harvard 45, Georgetown 0
… The tiredest fellow at Harvard Stadium last Friday night may … Kenny Smart ’18. The Crimson placekicker had a full evening of work, having swung his right leg on the game’s opening … has been competitive in every game and appears to be on the rise under third-year coach (and former Cornell captain) …
A Cardiac Conundrum
… angina pectoris and heart attacks, but it wasn’t until the 1910s and 1920s that physicians began concerted efforts … to its now longstanding status as the leading cause of death for American adults. It has held that position … But for patients with stable coronary disease, who comprise a large share of angioplasty patients? It has not been …
Issue: March-April 2013
Harvard Headlines: In Defense of Weeds, John Tate Wins Abel Prize, and Commencement Humor
… Among recent Harvard-related stories: The Boston Globe ran an article on May 23 on Peter del … a lecturer on landscape architecture at the Graduate School of Design and senior research scientist at the Arnold Arboretum. His new book, Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast: A Field Guide (Cornell), will be featured …
Commencement and Alumni Events 2023
… Kappa Exercises , at 11, with orator Adam Falk, Ph.D. ’91, theoretical physicist and president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and guest poet Natalie … of the ceremony, the graduating seniors are asked to rise, and their degrees are conferred on them as a group by …
Issue: May-June 2023
Unraveling the Universe through Puzzles
… Puzzles offer opportunities for exercising mental dexterity while passing the time on rainy days. But Cumrun Vafa sees them in a much … an amazingly clear solution.” And cases like this do arise in his current field, particle physics, he says. “You …
Issue: September-October 2020
Daniel Schrag and David Keith: Can Solar Geoengineering Help Fight Climate Change?
… geological history. But in human terms, at this early stage of climate impacts such as rising seas, rampant wildfires, and intensifying storms, the pace of change has been perceived as slow. In this … around the globe as ice sheets melt and sea level rises . What to do about the warming is dominated by …
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
… The elegant woman in her low-cut satin dress and plumed … Pupils at the Salon sponsored by the Parisian Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1785, she was making a daring … her path to the prestigious body was unusual. Many professional women painters came from families of artists or …
Issue: September-October 2009
The Context: How Exercise Gives Us Purpose
… This is the fifth post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival …
Masha Gessen on the Stories We Tell About Migration
… Masha Gessen seemed to become famous in the United States for the essay “ Autocracy: Rules for … the 2016 presidential election in The New York Review of Books. The Russian-American journalist and author is … in the modern world. The writer’s texts combine decades of reporting on immigration with a clear-eyed, unreserved …
Worth a Thousand Words
… its muted color palettes and simple shapes and lines, the art of Sarah Hulsey ’01 has a lot to say. Nearly every … print, etching, or artist’s book—features letterpress text of some kind. It’s not prose, nor is it poetry, and its …
Issue: November-December 2015
Football 2023: Harvard 38-Columbia 24
… Guess who is in first place in the Ivy League, with its destiny in its hands? Harvard, that’s who. With a 38-24 defeat of Columbia on Saturday, the Crimson, which entered the game … to 7-1 overall and 4-1 in conference play, one game ahead of Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton, and Yale. The Lions fell to …
Living Wage: Next Stage
… On the last day of January, President Lawrence H. Summers … University would adopt the "living wage" recommendations of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting … to $3.7 million. Assuming that security workers' pay would rise in any case, especially given the fallout from …
Issue: March-April 2002
Off the Shelf
… Anthill, by E. O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus (W.W. Norton, $24.95). The Pulitzer Prize-winning myrmecologist, sociobiologist, … Alabama roots, but his Harvard experience, in defense of wildlife, is at the Law School. Last Looks, Last Books, …
Issue: May-June 2010