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Learning Curve
… When the Harvard football team kicked off its 150th season at the … football coach, announced his retirement at the end of the 2023 season, which had brought an 8-2 overall record …
Issue: November-December 2024
A “Players’ Coach”
… When the final buzzer sounded last November in the game that won … in the two seasons before Minnis came, the team won a total of 12 games—while losing 29. Back then, Minnis was a club-team coach in California, and although he often sent players on to the Ivy League, it was almost never …
Issue: March-April 2017
Harvard in India
… The Harvard Alumni Association’ s Global Series conference “The Power of the Idea: An Academic Symposium Exploring Outreach in … Sen, and prominent alumni, such as Surat Singh, president of both the Harvard Club of India and the Harvard University …
Issue: March-April 2006
Football: Harvard 35, Lafayette 16
… Harvard’s 35-16 win at the Stadium on Saturday produced some surprises. Five and a half minutes into the game, the Crimson … a senior, has been the regular place-kicker since the start of his freshman season. Backup kicker Andrew Flesher …
First Wampanoag Graduate in 346 Years
… Commencement on May 26, Tiffany Smalley ’11 will become the first member of the Wampanoag tribe in more than three centuries to … is Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, A.B. 1665, protagonist of the new novel Caleb's Crossing by Pulitzer Prize winner …
Transition Time
… down as Harvard’s twenty-eighth president on June 30, 2018, the end of the new academic year, concluding service that began on … differ from prior searches because the Corporation now comprises a dozen members plus the president (who will not be …
Issue: September-October 2017
And Having Written...
… editor Craig Lambert tiptoed on to Harvard Magazine ’s masthead formally in the November-December 1988 issue, the … , in this issue, is his last as a full-time member of the staff. Fittingly, he also writes this time for Right … Lambert liked telling stories through people. His profile subjects included Doug Kenney (of the Harvard Lampoon …
Issue: January-February 2015
Contextualizing Inauguration Day through Presidential Portraits
… The group of visitors who crowded around to hear a gallery talk about presidential portraits at the Harvard Art Museums today were, perhaps inadvertently, participating in a form of creative resistance. Ethan Lasser , head of the division …
A Nation, Building
… On a recent Monday morning, during a class on global trade, the professor reviewed the effects of nations’ limits on such … alumni strong—in government, private and state-owned enterprises, finance, and academia nationwide: institutions very …
Issue: May-June 2014
Harvey Mansfield’s Last Class
… Until almost the end, it felt like any normal day in Harvey C. … Mansfield’s Government 1026 course, “The Political Science of American Democracy.” Students filed into a Sever Hall … abuse inherent in majoritarian democracy (“this is a surprise, isn’t it?”), which both ancient Greek and early …
Sidewalk Superintendent: Fogg Renovation
… As reported , the wholesale remaking of Harvard’s central art-museum … shows scaffolding erected on the Prescott Street side of the Fogg complex, giving construction workers access to …
Harvard Medalists 2014
… Pulitzer, A.M. ’63, and “Jack” P. Reardon Jr. ’60—received the 2014 Harvard Medal for “extraordinary service to the … Alumni Association’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. President Drew Faust read the … in the Harvard College Fund, Anand Mahindra is a member of the President’s Global Advisory Council, the Committee on …
Sweet and Spicy
… At the rightly named Moroccan Hospitality, sisters Nouzha … ($5.99) is served as an appetizer, but the bundling of tastes—from cinnamon, crushed almonds, and eggs to a splash of rose water—is bold. The buttery phyllo-wrapped beef …
Issue: January-February 2015
Harvard Sculptor Justin Peyser
… Near the woods behind Justin Peyser’s Long Island home sits a … work is massive, almost like an open-air room, or a stand of trees. It invites visitors to step inside, but once they … want to hit your body on those things,” Peyser says. Some of them resemble shackles; others are actually hooks. When …
Issue: March-April 2025
With a Little Help from Harvard's Friends
… On Saturday morning, May 13, the dull gray of the sky over Cambridge brightened the white … as "dotcoms" and their related service and technology enterprises ("dotcom-ers") take on the rest of the world: the …