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Diamonds for Tiffany
… Last year's Ivy League Player of the Year, Whitton hits for average, power, and RBIs … — with the Ivy title up for grabs — Princeton's softball squad came to Harvard for a doubleheader that filled …
Issue: May-June 2003
Chapter & Verse
… Thomas Gutheil seeks the name “of a (regrettably not recent) … to combat this.” Robert Kemp would like to learn the origin of an expression frequently used by his father: “Such is …
Issue: May-June 2014
Yesterday’s News
… Soldiers Field to house 20 enlisted men and 85 horses for the department of military science. 1946 As of October 1, a total of 12,183 students have registered for …
Issue: September-October 2021
Separate and Unequal
… The way Kim Gutschow '88, Ph.D. '98, Jf '00, sees it, Americans have a lot of misconceptions about Buddhism — especially Tibetan … Gutschow, an ethnographer and now a visiting assistant professor of religion at Williams College, Westerners tend to …
Issue: November-December 2004
Service, and Families
… Alongside the Memorial Church —built as a shrine to the Harvard dead of World War I, on the campus of one of the nation’s very … support for U.S. forces as well as humanitarian support in crises at home and around the world. In his address, he spoke …
Journey into Quabbin Reservoir’s Hidden Past
… For Elena Palladino, Ed.M. ’13, the Quabbin Reservoir preserve in central Massachusetts is … During the last six years, she has delved into the history of the region—and the lives of those forced to leave their communities in 1938 so the …
Issue: September-October 2023
Boston Baroque at 50
… in America. “I was curious what would happen if I got the very few people who could play well on those instruments … at the time together,” he says. “There were not even a lot of recordings then, and a lot of what we learned about the … popularity have grown over five decades still sometimes surprises Pearlman. “I just wanted to do some concerts,” he says …
Issue: November-December 2023
Yesterday’s News
… 1913 The Alumni Bulletin reports the laying of the cornerstone of the Harvard Club of Boston. A spokesman says the club …
Issue: March-April 2023
Fishing for Answers
… Photograph by Ralf-Finn Hestoft Neil Shubin and Tiktaalik In 2005, parents and school … an alternative to evolution in ninth-grade science classes. The judge in the case ultimately ruled in the parents’ … department to prepare for more roadways. To their surprise, Shubin relates in Your Inner Fish, Daeschler one day …
Issue: May-June 2008
Kennedy School, Under Construction
… The Harvard Kennedy School aims to build students’ capacity … image above), work was well under way to raise the level of the interior courtyard, install utility space in a new … with a new “gateway” structure that includes faculty offices and other spaces. The second and third images show …
Issue: March-April 2016
Harvard Takes Health On-line
… takes Harvard's educational mission to a general audience, the University has made available the expertise of faculty members from Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) through two websites devoted to …
Who Was John Greenleaf Whittier?
… The prominent nineteenth-century Quaker abolitionist and writer John Greenleaf Whittier was once in the backyard of his home in Amesbury, Massachusetts, when a bullet flew … surmised, that he was walking about on the other side of the fence. Instead of confronting them, however, Whittier …
Issue: May-June 2024
Imagining Harvard at 400
… Five younger faculty members convened at the first Conversations @ FAS panel of 2012, to discuss what the University might become when it … presentation on “the challenges and opportunities that arise from the exponential increase in data, and the ways we …
Ivy League Announces No Sports in Fall
… The first domino has fallen. The Ivy League announced today … announced a re-opening plan that invites about 40 percent of undergraduates back to campus for the term. “As … in intercollegiate athletics competition prior to the end of the fall semester,” said the Ivy League statement. A …
Former Crimson Star Spearheads New Soccer League
… For a child raised in the United States, Charles Altchek ’07 had an unusually soccer-focused upbringing. The son of a French mother, he spent his summers playing soccer in … to Harvard, where he earned back-to-back Ivy League Player of the Year awards in 2005 and 2006 (the first player to do …