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Housing after Randomization
… In the annals of undergraduate housing, the graduation of the class of 2001 marked the end of an …
Issue: November-December 2001
Samuel Williston
… When Samuel Williston, A.B. 1882, LL.B.-A.M. ’88, died at the age of 101, Time magazine took notice, describing his enormous … the contracts treatise still lands him on lists of the most widely cited legal scholars. Time also discussed …
Issue: January-February 2006
Learning from Toys
… Tamara Mattison, began to collect and make dolls, doll clothes, and accessories. By 2012, the serious hobby had … and “our husbands were, like, you got to get this stuff out of here,” Walker says. So they rented a storefront space in … and transformed it into the National Black Doll Museum of History and Culture. The nonprofit now features about …
Issue: May-June 2018
John Jay Chapman
… "Great men," wrote John Jay Chapman, A.B. 1884, "are often the negation and opposite of their age. They give it the lie." He was writing in 1897 …
Centennial Medalists
… The Griffin 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 2023
Caring for Children in Chennai
… ’09 and Allie (Rosene-Mirvis) Schachter ’09 spent part of a year traveling abroad—in Ghana, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and Australia. They also spent six months living in Chennai, India, where … Allie began volunteering with the Madras Christian Council of Social Service (MCCSS), a nongovernmental organization …
Issue: January-February 2014
Mother Teresa Speaks her Mind
… opt for levity, or substance cloaked in levity, from their Class Day guest speaker. The class of 1982 chose to hear a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who may … be named a saint. Mother Teresa, who founded the Society of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in 1950, urged …
Football 2023: Harvard 34-Brown 31
… witnessed a real rock-and-roller between Harvard and Brown. The game featured big plays, spectacular catches, a stirring … In the process, Harvard may have uncovered two breakout offensive stars. With Aidan Borguet ’23, last year’s Crimson … to 24-5. The contest’s back-and-forth nature was no surprise to the veteran coach, who was ready for anything from …
Seeing Allston Whole
… development projects in Allston, residents fear that their neighborhood—which they describe as uniquely … a lot like Boston’s Seaport district: a sterile landscape of laboratory buildings and luxury housing that skews … to the east of the SEC, the University’s future Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) will take shape . The imagined …
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
Weezer Releases New EP, "SZNZ: Spring"
… Whether you love or hate Weezer’s new EP, SZNZ: Spring , might come down to whether drinking three cups of coffee and then taking some Benadryl sounds like a ball or a …
Forecourt Phenoms
… In the world of college squash, Harvard was once a perennial national champion. The Crimson have bagged 30 such titles, far more than any other college, and reeled off seven consecutive national nine-man championships as …
Issue: January-February 2007
Life in Counterpoint
… Few have ever faced the choice that Berenika Zakrzewski '04 had three years ago: … path would be Juilliard—what else? Still, though lots of musicians don't take academics seriously, I do; like a lot of people at Harvard, I'm a bit of an overachiever. Now I …
Issue: November-December 2003
Election Results
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and the new …
Issue: July-August 2005
Harvard Faculty Debates Free Speech
… A seemingly routine, even boring agenda for the December 6 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting at University Hall—three … the incitement to violence—matters that would certainly arise in a normal review of a prospective regular faculty …