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Football: Yale 34-Harvard 29
… during come-from-behind victories at Dartmouth and Penn, the Harvard football team fell through on Saturday at the Stadium in The 140th playing of The Game, losing to Yale 34-29. The defeat, which snapped … guys worked their butts off all season, and I was not surprised that they were fighting to the end in the game.” The …
In a Farmer’s Long Beard
… Scholars too infrequently tell lay readers the human passions, as opposed to the intellectual itches, … that fuel their interests. In Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature (New York University Press, … and translator Miriam Udel ’98, Ph.D. ’08, associate professor of Yiddish language, literature, and culture in …
Issue: November-December 2020
Changing Guard at Government
… Dean of the Kennedy School of Government Joseph S. Nye announced in early September … the quality of the students (as measured on the GRE) has risen. Nye attributes this to an increased interest in …
Issue: November-December 2003
Anger Management
… turned to a medium that speaks to children everywhere: they developed a video game. In the game, children learn to … emotional states; if they get agitated and their heart rate rises too high, the controls stop working until their heart … their emotions. See how it works. … 29667 … Video tour of a game that helps children with anger issues handle their …
Issue: January-February 2011
Harvard Square Quiz: Winners' Circle
… We received 147 entries to our Harvard Square history quiz . The winner, Javier Bastos, M.Ed. ’98, a science teacher at … School in Owings Mills, Maryland, submitted a flawless set of answers to the 13 questions. Bastos’s father has lived in Cambridge most of his life, and Javier has often escorted visitors from his …
Yesterday's News
… 1928 Following Harvard’s first spring reading period, the College Library reports about 650 more visitors than in … New Yorker article which “describes the lamentable decrease of hurdy-gurdies licensed by the city of New York,” the Bulletin’ s editors cite the welcome …
Issue: May-June 2008
Brevia
… The President-elect Speaking at Harvard Law School’s (HLS) … celebration on October 23 (see “ Educating Professionals ,” page 58), President Drew Faust made a joke … only right answer to the trivia question, ‘What graduate of Harvard Law School was elected president of the United …
Issue: January-February 2009
Lives Intertwined
… For years, side by side with a photograph of my best dog ever, I've kept on my office mantelpiece Mathew Brady's portrait of the 11-year-old Henry James and his … one morning in October 1923, Charlie Chaplin pays a surprise visit to the poet Hart Crane ("I was smiling into one …
Issue: July-August 2004
Swerves
… on topics ranging from creation to religion to death. The format for his observations, many of them highly technical and uncannily modern, was a single … as a child would drink bitter medicine more readily out of a cup with a honeyed rim. He was right. In later …
Issue: July-August 2011
Judge Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Bar International Students from Harvard
… global ties, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to bar the University … dispute stems from a May 22 announcement by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that it would revoke Harvard’s … Harvard’s request for a preliminary injunction, which would offer longer-term protection. “Today’s court decision allows …
Crimson on Capitol Hill: 116th
… The Senate tilts red , the House blue for Harvard degree-program alumni or matriculants in the 116th Congress. The GOP roster now has eight senators … formerly held by John McCain. Her arrival raises the number of Harvard GOP affiliates in the Senate to nine (up three …
Issue: January-February 2019
Iambic Imbroglio
… In 19 B.C., the Roman noblemen Varius and Tucca were given an … to burn the manuscript that he had spent the last 10 years of his life working on and that, to his mind, remained … the glory it would bring his reign, demanded publication of the manuscript. Within a few days, dozens of scribes were …
Issue: January-February 2007
Superbug: An Epidemic Begins
… Less than a century ago, the age-old evolutionary relationship between humans and … by an idea. The antibiotic revolution inaugurated the era of modern medicine, trivializing once-deadly infections and … antibiotics are no exception: antibiotic resistance —the rise of bacteria impervious to the new “cure”—has followed …
Issue: May-June 2014
Hypervelocity Stars
… The center of the Milky Way galaxy is a crowded, busy neighborhood: clusters upon clusters of pulsating young stars, giant clouds of gas, dying stars …
Issue: November-December 2010
Letters (expanded)
… Editor's note: The three articles on American governance in the July-August … Radical Fix for the Republic," by Jonathan Shaw, on law professor Lawrence Lessig's proposal for a constitutional … Gutmann and Dennis Thompson; and Harvard Kennedy School professor Alexander Keyssar's Forum, "Voter Suppression …
Issue: September-October 2012