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Stanley Cup’s Crimson Connections
… The Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League celebrated on the ice in … Canada, on June 15 when they won the seventh game of the finals over the Vancouver Canucks and so captured ice …
Sponsored-Research Funds
… Sponsored-research funds account for about one-fifth of Harvard's operating revenue — and for 50 to 70 percent of the revenue of the schools of medicine and of public health. …
Issue: July-August 2004
Wrong!
… In June of 1955, Agnes Mongan, then assistant director and curator of drawings at Harvard's … twentieth century when demand for Ottoman velvets began to rise. The design, featuring carnations and hyacinth …
Issue: September-October 2004
Errant Oars
… wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." The secretary of the class of 1947 has asked for the help of Harvard Magazine, with its …
Issue: July-August 2005
Yesterday’s News
… 1923 The Bulletin notes, without comment, a report in The Harvard … was taken two years earlier. 1938 The Graduate School of Public Administration (forerunner of the Kennedy School) opens its first regular session with …
Issue: September-October 2018
Honoris Causa
… degrees at Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced the honorands, and President Drew Faust read the citations, … in the order below. Anthony S. Fauci. Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, he has led …
Issue: July-August 2009
Yesterday’s News
… 1913 The Alumni Bulletin applauds the Crimson for advocating more … exercises on Commencement Day.” 1918 The Harvard Club of North China contacts President Lowell, offering a prize of $100 to the Harvard undergraduate or …
Issue: May-June 2018
Inhaling Distress
… After 40 years of scientific and news reports on tobacco's hazards, smoking … asserts that mentally ill smokers account for nearly half the tobacco market in the United States: 44.3 percent of all … with no history of mental illness. But that percentage rises with the number of psychiatric problems, reaching 30 …
Centennial Medalists
… The 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 2020
Laugh for Your Lungs' Sake
… and stress-induced heart attacks already register with the general public. Now new research suggests that the lungs are vulnerable to the effects of stress as well. “[Poor] lung function is very much a … by cigarettes, an effect even the investigators were surprised to see. That means, says Wright, that doctors can say …
Issue: March-April 2007
The End of the Ivy League?
… With one minute left in Harvard’s last men’s basketball game of the 2023-2024 season, sophomore Chisom Okpara drove toward … the basket, leaped, and released the ball. It clanked off the rim back into his hands. On the second attempt, he …
Issue: November-December 2024
Centennial Medalists
… The 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 2016
Yesterday’s News
… 1933 Permission for a pacifist meeting of the Harvard Liberal Club on the Widener steps on Armistice … to ensure that blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans comprise 10 percent of its faculties by 1990, the centennial of …
Issue: November-December 2018
Reengineering Arts and Sciences
… Far from the fall-semester headlines about Harvard, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) pursued ideas across its … First, he said, a “degree of frustration” had arisen in the relationship between centers (those focused on …
Issue: March-April 2024
Cambridge 02138
… Ukraine Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy perpetuates the claim that the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Feb. 2022 was “unprovoked” (“ The Return of … transition, and in land- sea configuration (read: sea-level rise/fall as well as continental shapes), which are rooted …
Issue: November-December 2023