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… adjust to Harvard social life by forming friendships in the dormitories. The Bulletin notes: “At most American colleges the ‘rushing’ of freshmen by rival fraternities is an evil clearly … precisely this affliction.” 1925 The faculty, “whether out of consideration for the eyesight of the students or for the …
Issue: January-February 2015
Swept Into the River
… Medicine and Global Health ” (we call it “Social Med”). On the first day, our professor told us a classic story that helps illustrate an … worse health outcomes because of their illness. I was surprised by the broad perspective required to see why, even …
For Science and Engineering, New Life
… In January, the Harvard Corporation authorized the establishment of the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee … to play a major role in shaping the research campus that rises alongside the Charles River in the next 50 years. … In …
Issue: March-April 2007
How the Ball Bounced
… 2011, Harvard men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker stood in the team’s locker room preparing to give one of the most important speeches of his Crimson career. In just a few minutes, Harvard would …
Issue: May-June 2015
The Company We Keep
… When you use Facebook , Twitter, Instagram, and other social-media platforms, are you more likely to trust … as compared to businesses, from keeping information offline. In “What Hiding Reveals,” assistant professor … but also included “Choose Not to Answer.” To their surprise, the team found that participants were much more likely …
Issue: September-October 2015
Climate Change and Crops
… North Americans get most of their protein from animal-sourced foods, but most of the world relies on a handful of staple crops like wheat, …
Issue: November-December 2017
Happy Returns
… A s the punt hurtles through the sky, freshman Justice … the Harvard 14-yard-line, 40 yards downfield from the line of scrimmage. In many ways, his return began long before the ball was snapped: he has assiduously watched film of Columbia’s punter and read the scouting reports on him. …
Issue: September-October 2018
Welcoming the New Ledecky Fellows
… Jampel ’25 and Yasmeen Khan ’26 to its editorial staff as the 2024-2025 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows. … the November-December issue, they will alternate as authors of the “Undergraduate” column, contributing articles in print and online about aspects of Harvard life. Jampel, of Newton, Massachusetts, is a …
Issue: September-October 2024
Football: Brown 31-Harvard 28
… For all rookie coaches, there is a baptism by fire. Andrew Aurich, Harvard’s … for both teams, the favored Crimson coughed up two leads of 18 points and botched a snap on a field goal that allowed … even late on this sparkling afternoon, it seemed as if none of this would matter. The Crimson quieted one of Brown’s …
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
Learning to the HILT
… The Harvard Initiative on Learning and Teaching (HILT), … but this initiative deliberately inverted the order of the key words to stress the primacy of learning. HILT is the fruit of a $40-million gift from …
Yesterday's News
… 1922 An explosion of liquid oxygen in Jefferson Labs takes the lives of an engineering graduate student and a carpenter working …
Issue: May-June 2002
Street Doctor
… Joe Meuse spent years drunk on the streets of Boston, sleeping under bridges, over grates, … room visits in 18 months, but he doesn’t remember any of them. “He’s been as far down the drinking path as one can …
Issue: January-February 2016
Where Science Meets Culture
… When Jane Pickering , the new director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture (HMSC), saw King professor of …
Harvard Backs After-School Initiative
… The blue lights of police cruisers flashed outside Allston's … school on an early spring morning. "What's going on in there?" a local man pulled over to inquire. Told that a partnership of for-profit and nonprofit institutions had teamed with the …