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… 1927 The editors produce excerpts from the hundred-year-old freshman diary of Frederick West Holland, A.B. 1831, including the … to organize student-conducted business enterprises…” Other students form a credit club. 1967 The Law …
Issue: September-October 2022
“Make Elections Boring Again”
… “Secretary Raffensperger , you’ve had an interesting couple of years.” So began a conversation at the Institute of Politics (IOP) Tuesday evening with Georgia secretary of …
William Morris Davis
… Naught looks the same for long… Waters rush on, make valleys where once … echoing Pythagoras, alludes to geomorphology: the study of the forms taken by the earth’s surface, and what causes … devised a clear, concise, descriptive, and idealized model of landscape evolution that revolutionized and in many ways …
Issue: September-October 2018
John Harvard Statue Undergoes Restoration
… The John Harvard statue got a back-to-school makeover just in time for students’ and professors’ long-awaited return to campus. Observant … in worn areas (patina is the colored surface layer of the metal achieved through chemical alteration) and …
Issue: September-October 2021
Commencement 2007
… Below, you will find full texts and audiovisual recordings of major speeches, the Phi Beta Kappa poet and Orator, and the lead student … orators. Complete coverage appears in the July-August issue of Harvard Magazine, here . Tuesday, June 5. Phi Beta Kappa …
Uncharted Territory
… James Quillen ’22 to get his advice about applying to the Michael C. Rockefeller Fellowship. On the weekend we … fellowship aims to develop “an individual’s understanding of himself and his world through involvement with people of … jobs does not really mean I’m straying at all. Sophia surprised herself when she decided to work as a journalist in …
Issue: July-August 2023
Improving Harvard College and Graduate School Discipline
… In the wake of the Israel-Palestine protests during the … subcommittees needed to hear cases when multiple cases arise at once, as in the protests last April and May; and • … continue to adjudicate instances of misconduct that may arise in a broad range of contexts while honoring the …
Radcliffe Institute Announces Its 2010-2011 Fellows
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced its … include creative artists, humanists, and scientists; all of them will work on specific projects (listed in italics … emerge during their time here,” said Barbara J. Grosz, dean of the Radcliffe Institute and Higgins professor of natural …
Conflict, Abroad and at Home
… nations , flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that …
Issue: January-February 2002
Another Title, Another Heartbreak
… In the fourth quarter of The Game on November 23 at the … straits against Yale. After having trailed for much of the contest, the Crimson had clawed to within eight … guys worked their butts off all season, and I was not surprised that they were fighting to the end.” The …
Issue: January-February 2025
Be Present: Experiential Holiday Gifts for Everyone on Your List
… There’s no place quite like Boston and Cambridge during the … ’Tis the season to raise a glass, and there are plenty of ways to do it around town while learning something in the … for your own soirée, plus a dozen oysters and two glasses of bubbly. www.bandgoysters.com. And if you’re feeling extra …
Issue: November-December 2018
Football 2023: Princeton 21-Harvard 14
… The past week saw two wunderkind quarterbacks humbled, each … regular-season victories spanning two seasons, Brock Purdy of the San Francisco 49ers rallied his team from behind but … conference action. There is a five-team logjam at the top of the Ivies, with Cornell, Dartmouth (the Crimson’s next …
Time Flying
… Félix de Rosen ’13 (who in a throat-clearing moment told the Tercentenary Theatre throng, “This feels a little bit … in section”) chose a graduation chestnut—the passage of time—as his theme, but refreshed it by tying in the story of the late Charles A. Ditmas Jr., long the keeper of the …
Issue: July-August 2013
Global Health Pioneer Ophelia Dahl to Receive 2023 Radcliffe Medal
… , a human rights and social justice advocate who co-founded the international public health nonprofit Partners In Health, will receive the 2023 Radcliffe … “walking shoulder to shoulder through whatever challenges arise.” Dahl also helps lead the Roald Dahl Literary Estate, …
Convocation 2016: “I Urge You to Be Idealists”
… Each new Harvard class will gather together on just two occasions before they … address; and at Freshman Convocation, for which the Class of 2020 gathered on a mercifully cool August afternoon. … the world, and what they might tell us about the purpose of a university. “Media present us with an unrelenting flow …