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A True Believer
… But first, a word about the Florida scrub jay. “Before the invention of the air conditioner, Florida was a spectacular … are remnants of sand-dune formations left by a sea-level rise of a couple of million years ago.” Today’s jays have to …
Issue: March-April 2007
The SIGnboard
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has approved more than … . Harvard Magazine invites SIGs to share news of their activities in this space. (Send items to … Harvard Alumni in Wine and Food On January 13, HAWF and the Office of Career Services co-host a day-long visit to New …
Issue: January-February 2011
Origins
… There was a single birch tree that had overtopped the other … thick, and as Lok watched, impossibly thick. The blob of darkness seemed to coagulate round the stem like a drop … even had language, which is generally thought to have arisen between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago. They were, in …
Issue: September-October 2001
Ulysses S. Grant
… By late 1863, most of the major Civil War battles in the West—Shiloh, Stones … been fought. Union forces had the upper hand. Much of the credit for the success went to Major General Ulysses …
Issue: January-February 2019
The SIGnboard
… The Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 30 … . Harvard Magazine invites SIGs to share news of their activities in this space. (Send items to … ) welcomes all alumni and other members of the Harvard family interested in the environment. Members …
Issue: September-October 2012
Now That's What You Call the "Reader's Digest" Version
… party for Not Quite What I Was Planning , a compilation of six-word memoirs. That's right—these are people's attempts to condense their life stories … a former Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard Magazine , offers her own hilarious suggestions for those the book …
Harvard Dismisses Fencing Coach for Conflict of Interest
… Brand, whose conduct has been found to violate conflict-of-interest policies; the news was originally reported by The Boston Globe . In a statement released this afternoon, director of athletics Robert L. Scalise said: In April, Harvard was …
Harvard Endowment Valued at $41.9 Billion, Up 2.4 Percent
… Highlights for fiscal 2020: •The endowment’s value was $41.9 billion as of this past June 30, the end of fiscal year 2020—an … so the absolute dollar sum distributed to them typically rises more than the percentage change in the per-unit …
The SIGnboard
… The Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 20 … . Harvard Magazine invites SIG officers to share news of their groups’ activities in this space. (Send items to …
Issue: January-February 2010
From the Archives: We Remember World War I
… One hundred years ago this week, the United States entered the Great War that soon came to be … from the Harvard Magazine archives, are first-hand stories of that conflict, collected by Adam Goodheart ’92. … them in 1993, to hear and capture firsthand their accounts of the war—the smell of cordite, the ferrying of planes to …
Rebound & Transition
… championship. Changing that legacy, which dates from 1955 (the first year of play in the league), ranks high among the priorities of Tommy Amaker, the Crimson’s new head coach of men’s …
Issue: July-August 2007
Jenny Lee Talks Chinese Food on "The Colbert Report"
… Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard Magazine , appeared on The Colbert Report , Stephen Colbert's satirical news … new book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles , an exploration of Chinese restaurants in the United States. Among Colbert's … here . Read a quick take on her book in the current issue of Harvard Magazine , or a longer one in the Times Sunday …
Jumping English-style
… They make an odd sight on the sidewalk. Rising at 4 a.m. on … quizzical looks, or ask a joshing question: "What kind of party were you at?" The four riders, however, are not … overmatched in competition." Yet there can be surprises. This spring, Fishko won the regional championship for …
Harvard Overhauls Disciplinary Procedures
… overhauling disciplinary procedures involving violations of the University-wide Statement on Rights and … South Africa. In Context It comes as something of a surprise to learn that there is a University Committee on Rights …
Site Seeing
… Space. The final frontiers—the last major developable parcels owned … soon have new buildings on them with all manner of space for faculty and staff members and students. Soon … where a new science complex of four buildings is about to rise above an underground parking garage with perhaps 600 or …
Issue: May-June 2008