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Football: 9-0
… After a pair of 5-5 seasons sullied by inopportune turnovers and … "You can talk about a hundred things to your team during the preseason, but I only talked about two," he said in … with two quarterback sacks and a pass interception. The surprise star of the 27-20 victory was Staph, a fifth-year …
Issue: January-February 2002
E-mail Encore
… Following the March 10 Boston Globe report that resident deans’ e-mail accounts were checked during an investigation of how a confidential Administrative Board (AB) memo was … interested in the Administrative Board case and was kept apprised of its progress throughout the fall. Back in …
Wrought from Ruins
… The mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, M.P.P. … From Braddock’s ruins, he believes, something new can rise that balances what its residents need—jobs, services, commercial enterprises—with what newcomers can contribute. “Braddock isn’t …
Issue: September-October 2010
Endowment Declines 22 Percent through October 31
… Going beyond the disclosures made on November 10 and November 18 , the … and financial administrators indicating that the value of Harvard's endowment had declined 22 percent through … 31. (It was valued at $36.9 billion last June 30, the end of fiscal year 2008.) Moreover, according to the memorandum …
Benning Wentworth
… When Benning Wentworth, A.B. 1715, retired as royal governor of New Hampshire in the summer of 1767, he was one of the richest men in New England. That …
Issue: November-December 2004
A Coddled Campus?
… About 30 of us packed into our Adams House suite to watch the election returns: roommates, girlfriends, buddies, friends of friends, strewn across Craigslist-procured couches, the …
Issue: March-April 2017
Reasoned Debate, Free Speech, and Service
… at Morning Prayers in Memorial Church this morning at the start of the new academic year, expressed concern about the … there will be many opportunities for our community to rise to the challenge of turning individual commentary into …
Popular Science
… For thousands of ordinary people around the world, one of biology’s hardest problems is just a game. Both …
Issue: January-February 2014
Inside Harvard’s Home for Books
… The soundtrack of the Harvard Depository is, like that of most libraries, …
Women and Tenure
… The discussion of tenured appointments of women within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) cooled somewhat …
Issue: March-April 2005
Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2015
Architecture as Liberal Art
… At the start of their undergraduate architecture lab this fall, Mark … their students an assignment that seemed like something out of a high-school shop class: take two pieces of wood, and …
Issue: January-February 2015
The Day’s Events: Friday, May 25
… Martha Minow , Ed.M. ’76, “From Front Lines to High Courts: The Law and Social Change.” Panelists include Linda … Renee Landers ’77, and Kathleen Sullivan, J.D. ’81. Watch the panel live at 10:30 A.M. on Radcliffe’s website. The … H. Marshall , Ed.M. ’69, the twenty-fourth chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, will give the …
A Presidency’s Early End
… After five years of frequent controversy on matters of fundamental academic and intellectual substance, and the style in which those issues were pursued, the Harvard … the community to “look forward in a spirit of common enterprise” of scholarship and education. In his own letter, …
Issue: May-June 2006
When Children Fall Ill
… to tell her own story. It felt right, and healing, to honor the life of her daughter Cameron, who had died of a rare genetic … would say no to that?” The world of pediatric medical crises—of days and nights spent in intensive care units, of …
Issue: January-February 2023