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Gloucester’s Beauport Mansion
… is much more than a beautiful house. Touring its maze of rooms offers a romantic exploration of literary and historical themes through decorative arts. It’s also a trip into the …
Issue: May-June 2018
Yesterday's News
… 1925 The Associated Harvard Clubs’ Committee on Service to the University suggests that descendants of Harvard graduates be given preference in the admission … legislature passes an act to permit construction of a footbridge over the Charles River from the Cambridge …
Issue: May-June 2005
Beauty from Disarray
… Judith Brodsky’s entry into the art world began with a hand-drawn circle. Then a young wife and mother just years out of Radcliffe, Brodsky ’54 traced a radius around a map of her home in Princeton, New Jersey, and considered how far …
Issue: September-October 2016
Yesterday's News
… 1920 The Graduate School of Education registers its first female … a Harvard degree. 1925 The College establishes a board of faculty advisers to counsel freshmen. 1930 Six hundred …
Issue: September-October 2005
How the Mind Assigns Meaning to Words
… How does the brain process language—using sounds to form words, and assigning words their meaning? Recording the activity of single neurons in the language region of patients undergoing deep brain stimulation, researchers …
Issue: November-December 2024
Personal Favorites
… we asked Harvard Magazine staffers and friends to name some of their favorite restaurants in Greater Boston. The resulting … for inventive food, comfort, personable servers, and ease of conversation (low noise levels). A hodge-podge selection …
Issue: May-June 2019
Football: Harvard 31- Penn 28
… In the 151 years of Harvard football there have been many players who have stepped into the … Champi ’69, “Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29.”) Now the name of Charles P. DePrima ’25 must be added to the annals. On …
Yesterday's News
… 1915 A group of 800 Harvard-educated farmers claim the right to call their organization the "Harvard Farmers … Bulletin' s editor doubts that "such a proposed association of farmers would be likely to besmirch the fair name of …
Champ Lyons
… fire had destroyed Boston’s Cocoanut Grove nightclub; of the more than 1,000 patrons present, 490 eventually died. … the country and then to the Mediterranean—all because of his use of the revolutionary new antibiotic, penicillin, …
Martin L. Dalton , Laurence A. Lyons
Issue: May-June 2016
Cinéaste’s Orgy
… In a normal year, he will watch 2,700 films, an average of nearly seven per day. True, many aren’t feature-length, and Peña doesn’t watch every one all the way through, but even so, he has a fair claim as the nation’s leading movie buff. “I never get tired of watching movies,” he says. “And I do watch Hollywood …
Issue: September-October 2009
Deficit Days
… The University reported a $130-million operating deficit in fiscal year 2011, ended last June 30—about 3 percent of total expenditures—according to its annual financial … vice president for finance and chief financial officer Daniel S. Shore noted that Harvard was “still …
Issue: January-February 2012
Yesterday's News
… members Fred W. Moore '93 and Frank S. Knapp purchase the capital stock of Leavitt & Peirce Inc., the Cambridge smoke shop and pool and billiard parlor which for 39 years has been "the unofficial 'headquarters for Harvard men.'" The store will …
Issue: July-August 2007
Good Design
… In June 1968, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) invited … The New Carver Apartments , the second of the three, rises next to the Santa Monica Freeway like a cylindrical …
Issue: March-April 2015
Silver Linings
… a pessimist by nature, but this year has given me plenty of opportunities to rethink my perspective. The scourge of racism and the ravages of climate change are … an educational shift, and a financial blow—multiple crises that challenge our mission in direct and fundamental …
Issue: November-December 2020
Postscript
… September-October 1996 issue, Harvard Magazine published "The Millenial Class," a selection of admissions essays submitted by six successful applicants to the Harvard College class of 2000. The editors' judgment was doubly flawed--this year, …
Geoffrey A. Fowler , Caille Millner