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Winter Sports
… The icewomen (30-3-1 overall, 15-0-1 ECAC) skated one of … teams ever, and were ranked first in the nation for most of the year. They won the Ivy and regular-season ECAC …
Issue: May-June 2003
Endowment Managers’ Pay Reported
… WITH THE FILING in mid May of its tax return for nonprofit organizations (Form 990) for 2010 (covering the tax year from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011— Harvard’s …
Medicine Man
… When Joseph B. Martin relinquishes the deanship of Harvard Medical School (HMS) at the end of … relative to the enormous research and clinical enterprises.  Fueled (until recently) by fundamental …
Issue: January-February 2007
In Federal Court, Harvard and the Government Have Friends
… Later this month , Harvard and the Trump administration are set to meet in court, where—if … suit challenging that freeze in April, at least 17 “friend of the court” briefs have been submitted to the federal … in as recently as last week. The amicus curiae briefs offer a glimpse into the legal arguments and ideological …
Rebecca Henderson
… why large companies find it difficult to change. One part of the answer is the phenomenon of “overload”—essentially, the failure to spend time …
Issue: November-December 2011
State-Sponsored Discrimination
… Residential segregation —much of it codified in federal, state, and local state law—has, over time, deepened disparities of wealth and access to education in the United States. Richard Rothstein ’63 documented that …
Issue: September-October 2023
Alumni Awards
… The HAA Clubs and SIGs Committee Awards honor individuals … were presented to the following recipients at the HAA Board of Directors winter meeting on February 4. Jake Arbes ’73, of Atlanta. As president of the Harvard Club of Georgia, …
Issue: March-April 2010
Undergraduate Update
… by faculty interest and prodded by Harvard's new president, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) appears to be embarked on an ambitious review and perhaps overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum. The work began at the first …
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
New Traditions
… A place 388 years young naturally has lots of traditions. Yet it keeps adding new ones. Among the latter is the first-year convocation, held for the … term on September 3. Their intersection at the beginning of each academic year has taken on added significance as a …
Issue: November-December 2024
Layoffs Begin
… The University announced this morning that it would begin laying off 275 employees and reducing the hours of 40 other employees or limiting them to an academic-year …
Grits and Beyond
… If you want a precious morsel of "lacquered" foie gras with bee pollen, go to Clio in Boston. If you want to be fed voluptuous Southern cooking and plenty of it, to be served with cheerfulness, to be surrounded by …
Issue: January-February 2002
Harvard Women’s Ice Hockey Investigation Finds No Evidence of Hazing Culture
… Harvard Athletics Director Erin McDermott addressed the findings of an independent investigation into alleged abuse on the … departmental changes in an email sent to members of the Harvard Athletics community yesterday morning. The …
Harvard’s Undergraduate Council Kerfuffle
… After 40 years, the Undergraduate Council (UC)—the Harvard College student … voting period that concluded in late March, 76 percent of nearly 4,000 voting students decided to dismantle their … current representative body and replace it with a new form of government: the Harvard Undergraduate Association (HUA). …
Commencement Confetti
… '77 NEWS BLACKOUTS Notwithstanding that Harvard is a place of free and open discussion, the class of 1977 declared its reunion symposiums off the record--a …
Issue: July-August 2002