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… 1926 After closing the Memorial Hall commons because of students' "unsociable fashion of 'eating round' at cafeterias and lunch counters," …
Issue: November-December 2001
Quiet, Please
… On a bright Monday afternoon, the fairy godmother of introverts—author Susan Cain, J.D. ’93, whose book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking caught fire …
Issue: March-April 2017
The Dogs of War
… more than 200 who were taken to Gaza as hostages—set off furious confrontations at Harvard and on campuses across the country. As the Israel Defense Forces began bombing … intensified, sometimes tinged with deplorable strains of antisemitism and Islamophobia. Here and nationwide, local …
Issue: January-February 2024
Voluptuous Sunday
… They ravish the eye. They intoxicate the nose. For more than … Sunday” festival at the Arnold Arboretum to revel in one of North America’s oldest and largest collections of lilacs. (The ladies above are taking them in in 1926.) …
Issue: May-June 2012
News Briefs
… Social Club Sanctions Citing their history of gender discrimination and negative … and too rigid relative to circumstances that might arise in each situation. Accordingly, where faculty members …
John S. Rosenberg , Marina N. Bolotnikova , Aidan Langston
Issue: July-August 2016
Before Social Media
… How many people in the room remember what they were listening to on their … Lone Ranger: “Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear! From out of the past come the thundering … exhibition, and some of them may have learned to their surprise that tuning a radio might require more than pushing a …
Issue: May-June 2016
Art and Activism
… In the autumn of 1924, Alain Locke was enjoying the beauties of San Remo, Italy. But his mind and heart were back home in …
Issue: March-April 2018
Oprah: Setting Your “Inner Moral GPS”
… continued this sultry, summery afternoon in Tercentenary Theatre during the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). The University … threats to “the foundations of our nation’s research enterprise”—specifically, the federal-university research …
Yesterday's News
… 1911 The Bulletin notes that A Lawyer’s Recollections, by George … applauding a decision to “check an increasing disturbance of the academic peace” by closing certain roads in the Yard against “the menace and noisiness of the automobile.” 1936 Dedication exercises for the Old …
Issue: May-June 2016
Frank Roosevelt at Harvard
… Even adversaries admired his way with words, and the "wise sauciness"—in Felix Frankfurter's phrase—with … "This meeting is being held," he began, in pursuance of an adjournment expressly taken one hundred years ago on the motion of Josiah Quincy. At that time many of the alumni of Harvard …
William Cranch Bond
… Two hundred years ago , during the late summer of 1815, 26-year-old William Cranch Bond unexpectedly spent a night on the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Harvard’s emissary to …
Issue: September-October 2015
From Physiology to Systems Biology
… biology shares with physiology, a much older discipline, the desire to study how whole biological systems work and … integrated. In the 1930s, Harvard Medical School (HMS) professor of physiology Walter Cannon coined the term “homeostasis” to …
Issue: November-December 2018
Yesterday's News
… 1920 The physical examination of all 700 Harvard freshmen, in connection with a new system of compulsory freshman athletics, has been completed, with …
Coronavirus Closes Classes
… The third shoe has dropped, as the coronavirus outbreak … and competitions have been canceled for the duration of the spring. The College’s announcements concerning … or ship home personal belongings indicate strongly that officials do not expect residential education to resume on …
Football 2023: Harvard 48-Howard 7
… In football parlance, a “chunk play” is one in which the offense gains a chunk of yardage—at least 15 yards rushing or 20 passing. On …