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Saint Fiacre
… Medieval saints handled many tasks for the needy faithful. Saint Apollonia took care of toothaches because the Romans had ripped out her teeth … against rats and mice, naturally became the patron saint of cats. Saint Wilgefort helped rid women of brutal husbands …
Yesterday’s News
… 1923 The College admits 940 applicants, its largest class ever. For the first time, those in the top seventh of their preparatory schools have been admitted without … surveys its married graduates to find out “what sort of men its alumnae prefer to marry.” The answer is clear: 53 …
Issue: September-October 2013
News Briefs
… Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker ’81, a member of the Harvard Corporation since 2018, has been elected senior … Company, which directs development of the commercial “enterprise research campus,” near Harvard Business School (see …
Issue: May-June 2022
All the World’s a Page
… Shakespeare, performed in the palm of one’s hand. So proposes educational technologist … The New Book Press, has created full-length e-books of Macbeth and Midsummer Night’s Dream, with Romeo and …
Issue: July-August 2014
Failure to Finish
… A t approximately 4:05 p.m. on November 2, the 2019 Harvard football season began unraveling. Until … It was the most ghastly defeat in the 146-year history of Harvard football—for three weeks, anyway, until it was … which began with a 30-24 loss at Princeton, was a nightmare of spotty play, gambles that backfired, and horrendously …
Issue: January-February 2020
edX: The Second Season
… edX , the online learning joint partnership between Harvard and MIT (now including Berkeley, Georgetown, the University of Texas, and Wellesley), announced its second virtual "semester" of classes, including two Harvard-based large lecture …
Commencement Address by President Lawrence H. Summers
… by Lawrence H. Summers On behalf of every student, faculty member, and every member of the staff of Harvard University, I want to thank the alumni … their economies grow at a rate where living standards could rise by a factor of 30 in a single human lifespan, a trend …
In Their Nation's Service
… “ On the morning of July 20, 1953, a week before the armistice … trench in South Korea, surveying a battlefield. “The bodies of a number of [fellow] Marines were strewn on the slopes of …
Issue: July-August 2008
Yesterday’s News
… 1919 With the War Department’s approval, the Faculty of Arts and … celebration from May 30 to June 1, “the vicinity of Memorial Hall [is] thronged with delegates wearing gaily …
Issue: May-June 2014
William Henry Lewis
… During a football game in 1904, William Clarence Matthews , the sole African-American player on the Harvard … suggested William Henry Lewis, LL.B. 1895, a member of the coaching staff from 1895 to 1906. “He’s too light,” … like that. He, if anyone, knew about prejudice on and off the field: he was probably the only African-American …
Issue: November-December 2005
Hip-Hop Art and French Innovators
… The Museum of Fine Arts reopened for in-person visits this … its 150 th anniversary with three distinct shows. The major exhibition, “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the … like Keith Haring, Lady Pink, and Fab 5 Freddy ( Return of God to Africa, 1984, below). All reflect a …
Issue: November-December 2020
Cambridge 02138
… Elena Kagan in Dissent I got a good laugh out of the recent article on “ Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent ” … disrespect for the Court. Though I shall be pleasantly surprised if the chief justice actually does this, I am happily …
Issue: January-February 2023
Thinking about Space
… In a seminar room on the fifth floor of the Graduate School of Design’s Gund … a 3-D rendering of a tall and skinny apartment complex comprised of bright red, off-kilter stacked cubes and extremely …
Issue: September-October 2018
Yesterday’s News
… 1918 To save coal for the war effort, the University closes various buildings on selected days and cuts off heat to student dormitories after 9 p.m. 1928 Harvard … Minot and William P. Murphy prove that eating half a pound of mammal liver or kidney daily will improve and maintain …
Issue: January-February 2013
E-mail Implications
… A report on Harvard’s investigations of resident deans’ e-mail accounts last year —prepared by … academic misconduct led Harvard administrators to authorize the scrutiny of electronic communications, in turn a subject … may be involved in such cases, and that when such cases do arise, we want to assure that we are coordinated and working …