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Football 2019: Princeton 30, Harvard 24
… have played some rousing football games, usually won by the Tigers. Saturday at Princeton Stadium saw another one, … catches, breakaway runs, and more blocked kicks than you often see in a whole season. As in 2018, Harvard went … had the ball it meant that Princeton’s quick-striking offense did not.) But Harvard could not overcome three …
Mass Audubon Ushers in the Spring
… The Parker River National Wildlife Refuge stretches along the coast of Plum Island, near Newburyport. In addition to prime beach … who also directs the Burlington Science Center, part of that town’s public-school system. She starts the day with …
Issue: March-April 2019
Eat, Drink, Read
… and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably,” then head straight to the Map Room Tea Lounge, at the Boston … last year in the landmark Copley Square building, and offers a homey hideout—especially during the winter. “People … of blasphemy to read poetry at table,” he asserted in Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life . “What one wants …
Issue: January-February 2020
Design Dispatches: Meshing Past, Present, and Future
… G ’14, set out to create an exhibit representing the first 75 years of the Graduate School of Design (GSD), he hit an immediate snag: how should he …
Palace Pottery
… Even the Qing emperors, nearly four centuries ago, recognized … splashed with organic-seeming, almost foliate lobes of plum—as one of the five great achievements of China’s … using dual interior and exterior molds. Demand would have arisen from construction of the Forbidden City. But there are …
Issue: July-August 2017
ROTC, Up Close and Personal
… a Harvard student what comes to mind when he or she thinks of ROTC and the response is likely to be negative. A focus of anti-Vietnam War protest in the sixties and of the gay …
“Harvard Guy” Ryan Fitzpatrick Rides High in the NFL
… Led by quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05, the resurgent Buffalo Bills are treating their … resembling a dream season. The Bills had victories in four of their first six games, including an upset of the top-tier New England Patriots, and they lead the …
Storytelling Spaces
… Set designers like Derek McLane ’80 are responsible for one of the chief joys of theatergoing: the inevitable surprise we feel when the curtain rises and we are thrust into a …
Issue: March-April 2008
Paradise Lost?
… Five thousand years ago in the Mesopotamian marshes, between the Tigris and Euphrates … built an agrarian society, banding together the children of hunter-gatherers in the world's first cities—Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Lagash, Larsa—on the edge of the marshes. From their cradle of civilization, the …
Issue: January-February 2005
Ko K'un-hua
… Yale was the first American college to offer instruction in Chinese, … 1877; apparently, no one signed up. The next year, a group of Boston and Salem businessmen engaged in the lucrative …
Issue: March-April 2008
Cambridge 02138
… Hailing the Humanities What a great, much-needed article by Helen … subhead, “How to welcome and nurture the poets and painters of the future,” is arguably the least of it.Her last … any pain. According to them, this is very rare. I am surprised that, after all these years, there have not been …
Issue: January-February 2013
Bailing Out Finance: How Will It End?
… Writing in today's New York Times , Safra professor of economics Jeremy C. Stein and University of Chicago economist Anil Kashyap outline the options, as they see them, for the federal government's … value and hold them until the crisis passes and their value rises again? Will it overpay for these assets to subsidize …
Hotfoot
… Few sports events are more elemental than a footrace. There is little fancy equipment to tweak, and no one else to … fires, says Daniel Chenoweth ’11--Harvard’s first winner of the Ivy League’s Heptagonal Championship individual crown … there is the pain. “That is a distinguishing characteristic of cross-country and track,” says the harriers’ captain, who …
Issue: November-December 2010
A Scientist in Full
… On January 15, 1873, Joseph Henry, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, recounted in his diary a “long … he’d had that morning with Louis Agassiz, founding director of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. The MCZ had been …
Issue: May-June 2013
Ups and Downs with Harvard
… Although we are all assembled at this gathering because we have been 25 years at Harvard, today I am privately celebrating 53 years of attachment to Harvard, to which I first came when I was … I learned, by bitter experience, to submit whole packets of request-slips, because at least half always came back …
Issue: November-December 2001