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Encouraging Esperanto
… vi parolas Esperanton? (Do you speak Esperanto?) For many, the answer may be surprising: more than two million people … ’78. Esperanto, devised by Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof and introduced in an 1887 booklet, is the most widely … started about three years ago. “I always got a lot of enjoyment through learning languages, and learning about …
Issue: January-February 2016
Football: Harvard 42, San Diego 20
… Until this week, no Harvard football team had ventured to the West Coast since September 24, 1949, when Stanford … in these western precincts evaporated in the blast furnace of the Stanford performance,” reported The Boston Globe . … 38,000 on hand.” “We played football like we had been chloroformed,” one Harvard player told the Globe . With 4,256 on …
Jolly Tippler, Good Dog
… Mary Saunders , curator of the Harvard Club of New York, has sent Primus this dispatch: “For many years …
Issue: May-June 2016
Campus Campaign
… campaign is in full swing, as eligible degree-holders mull their choices in the annual election of members of the Board of Overseers—unusually contested this year—and …
Issue: May-June 2016
Global,
… address, President Lawrence H. Summers focused on “perhaps the defining development of our time,” the “growing integration” between the … the globe, internationalizing research, and effecting all of these goals through a presence in the world, tangible and …
Issue: July-August 2005
Extracurriculars
… Special Events Celebrating the Millennium of Firdawsi's Shahnama The Houghton Library … and Harvard Art Museums are participating in a series of fall events organized by the Museum of Fine Arts in …
Issue: September-October 2010
Obama's Facebook Playbook
… If the Barack Obama campaign's web presence reminds you of … The man behind my.barackobama.com is Chris Hughes ’06, one of Facebook's founders. As a New York Times article on …
A Calling for Justice
… While investigating the genocide in Rwanda for the United Nations in 1994, attorney Gary Haugen '85 directed the exhumation of mass graves to collect evidence for the subsequent … for the poor in Boston. His understanding of overseas crises deepened when he headed an HRCF committee that studied …
Issue: March-April 2005
Aloian Scholars
… In honor of the David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholarships’ twenty-fifth anniversary, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has chosen four undergraduates to receive the award this year (instead of the usual two). Recipients have demonstrated solid …
Issue: November-December 2012
Susanne Ebbinghaus
… The recently appointed Hanfmann curator of ancient art at … empire and their reception in the West. This was the topic of the thesis that earned her a doctorate from Oxford in …
Issue: November-December 2006
Winter, East and West
… By informal tradition, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has had a poet laureate … , who reads a topical or amusing work at one or more of the seasonal association gatherings in Cambridge. The … Robert R. Bowie Jr. '73, revealed in his Harvard Magazine profile , at the outset of his HAA presidency, that his tutor …
High Art
… Since its founding, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has commissioned artists to depict explorations of the upper atmosphere and of space. Norman Rockwell, Robert Rausch en berg, Andy …
Issue: November-December 2006
Cape Cod Wonders, By Bike
… Before bridges built in the 1930s paved the way for car traffic and visitors choking … ended, but the Cape Cod Rail Trail (CCRT) follows portions of those scenic journeys, with plenty of spots to veer off to beaches, nature preserves, and …
Issue: September-October 2020
Natalie Portman ’03: “Your Inexperience Is an Asset”
… a tiny blue plastic prize, Portman realized that instead of taking joy in the challenge of the game, his main goal was winning. “In a child’s …
Indian Boarding Schools, Then and Now
… In 1906, the U.S. government sent cavalry onto Hopi land in Arizona, … people to boarding school,” says Gregory Schaaf, director of the Center for Indigenous Arts & Cultures in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and author of the multivolume American Indian Art Series . “Why? …
Issue: March-April 2008