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Football 2018: Harvard 21, Princeton 29
… Forty-some seconds remaining. Harvard scoring to cut the traditional rival’s lead to 29-21. Now comes the onside … would be within a touchdown and a two-point conversion of tying the contest, you would have taken it. In what can be fairly termed a heck of a football game, Harvard hung tough against its longtime …
Albert Gallatin Browne Jr.
… Within months of his 1857 inauguration, President James Buchanan plunged nearly a third of the U.S. army into an unprecedented power struggle with …
Issue: November-December 2008
"Rush to Failure"
… On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan shocked the national security establishment by calling upon the … nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of … Way Out There in the Blue, we certainly shouldn't be surprised. … The flawed politics and policies of missile …
Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Anthony Lewis Dies at 85
… Anthony Lewis ’48, NF ’57, served as an astute watchdog of the United States Supreme Court, the First Amendment, and … The Boston Globe . He was 85. Regarded by many as one of the great American journalists of the post-World War II …
Headquarters
… ill in bed on April 19, 1775, as embattled farmers fired the shot heard round the world. But when a courier reached … given him by a provincial congress, he took charge of ragtag forces and led an armed rebellion against a superpower as the first commander in chief of the American Revolution. General George Washington, …
Issue: July-August 2003
John Adams, Up-front Guy
… In this twenty-first century era of the second President George Bush, it seems peculiarly appropriate that one of America's leading biographers has turned his attention to …
Yesterday's News
… 1912 Larz Anderson ’88 proposes to build a new bridge across the Charles River to replace the inadequate wooden structure … from Quincy Square to Harvard Square to reduce the noise of traffic. 1927 Play-by-play accounts of all Harvard … by…helping to organize student-conducted business enterprises….” The admissions committee’s newsletter notes the …
Issue: September-October 2007
“Decarcerating” America
… community organizer Brittany White finds herself thinking of Bianca. She met her in 2009, when both women were serving prison sentences with the Alabama Department of Corrections. Bianca had been denied parole for 10 years, …
Issue: November-December 2021
University Magic
… inevitably, Harvard’s 357th Commencement touched on some of these concerns. On Wednesday, June 4, President Drew Faust’s remarks at the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps commissioning ceremony necessarily …
Issue: July-August 2008
Harvard’s 2017 Honorary-Degree Recipients, from A to Z
… DURING THE MORNING EXERCISES of the 366th Commencement, on May … (2011) , and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis (2009) —might be reprised this year, with composer John Williams in the queue …
$30 Million for “Work in the Years Ahead”
… Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67, M.B.A. ’71, and his wife, Katherine A. O’Donnell, have given Harvard $30 million, the … but also globally.” Joe O’Donnell was named a fellow of the Harvard Corporation , the University’s senior … governing board, last spring in an unprecedented expansion of that historic body. His decades of volunteer work on …
Rethinking College
… The current review of Harvard's undergraduate curriculum has become the widest imaginable inquiry into teaching and learning at … issue now may be assembling a coherent program. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is expected to receive further …
Issue: March-April 2004
Do You Believe in Magic?
… a magic trick. A Pittsburgh native, he’s here to oversee the installation of four of his pieces at the Melissa Morgan Fine Art gallery. The …
Issue: March-April 2023
Making a Bee Line
… Seeley , Ph.D. ’78, studies swarm intelligence, notably in the complex lives of honeybees. Apis mellifera arrived on this continent with European settlers, perhaps in the 1620s. A long line of scientists has engaged with the species, including …
Issue: September-October 2016
What Does the $2.8B NCAA Settlement Mean for Harvard?
… (NCAA) , ending a five-year legal saga and paving the way for colleges to directly pay student athletes. The House settlement (which, under the name of Arizona State University swimmer Grant House, combined … In January, the Ivy League announced it was opting out of the settlement, exempting it from most of the …