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Spherical Riches
… Harvard's baseball collection consists of 274 balls in a massive case. The balls commemorate games won by College teams between … a win over Yale, 16-2, on June 20, 1885. Harvard won 27 of 28 games that year, playing both spring and fall. The …
Disagreeing Well
… Seo ’17, J.D. ’24, a champion debater and former coach for the Harvard College Debating Union, points to a path forward … Press, $28). From the introduction: This book, the sum of a short lifetime’s reflection, is about two forms of debate. One is competitive debate, a formal game in which …
Issue: July-August 2022
Cryptic Puzzle: “Renovation”
… Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution … Santa Monica, CA Bob Lundegaard – Minneapolis, MN Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico Jackie Miller – … Manhattan, KS Andrew Oakes – Half Moon Bay, CA Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD …
Faculty Room Facelift
… The Faculty Room, the soaring second-floor space at the center of University Hall—designed by Charles Bulfinch, A.B. 1781 … in exchange for tuition payments for son Thomas, class of 1814—an early legacy!) and completed in 1815—is justly …
Issue: March-April 2025
Brand-name Geniuses
… The madding crowds of eighteenth-century England demanded … such evolving tastes and scrambled to deliver products to their fickle customers. In her new book, Brand New: How … Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell, professor of business administration Nancy F. Koehn examines …
Issue: November-December 2001
Applying Yourself
… day in 2004, President Lawrence H. Summers was addressing the large group of newly arrived freshmen and their parents about the … else to care about understanding my own desires. What surprises me now about how disconnected and inept I felt then …
Issue: January-February 2008
What Next for Ivy League Sports?
… What is the place of the scholar-athlete in Ivy League colleges today? First among the Ivy League’s statement of principles is the ideal that “intercollegiate athletics …
Issue: July-August 2008
An Academic Worker’s Union?
… In early February, non-tenure-track faculty and other academic staff members launched an effort to form a … member at Harvard Medical School (HMS), said during one of two union rallies February 14, in Harvard Yard and at the … since 2010, the number of non-ladder faculty members has risen by 44 percent. Organizers advocating a union of …
Issue: May-June 2023
“Magical Digressions”
… where Kramer was collecting skeletons and refurbishing them to museum quality by washing the bones in Jerry’s dishwasher so he could sell them off? No? Maybe that’s because it never happened. Television … what the other actors are going to say and wants to be surprised. Meanwhile Schaffer, as executive producer, is often …
Issue: January-February 2021
Louis Menand
… Louis Menand Photograph by Stu Rosner Though readers of the New Yorker might identify him as a gifted book critic … National Magazine Award finalists in both categories—professor of English and American literature and language …
Issue: May-June 2004
Football 2018: Dartmouth 24, Harvard 17
… On Saturday at Memorial Field in Hanover, New Hampshire, the Harvard football team played the role of measuring stick for the second week in a row—and the game … the best and toughest team we’ve played this year, one of the great Dartmouth teams I’ve faced in my 25 years. …
Brevia
… Prizes in science. Roger D. Kornberg ’67, JF ’76, Winzer professor in medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, won the prize in chemistry for studying the molecular basis of …
Issue: November-December 2006
How a Young Alumni Movement Wants to Change Harvard’s Investment Policies
… Two members of the Harvard Forward slate , who are petitioning for places … for young alumni, but Harvard Forward’s slate this year comprises five candidates.] Toweh emphasized reaching out to …
The Poetics of Homelessness
… After publication of the May-June feature “ The Homelessness Public Health Crisis … Harvard Divinity School (HDS). He has written three books of poetry: A Madness of Blue Obsidian, The Hour Wasp, and …
Barry Keoghan and Annette Bening Named Hasty Pudding’s 2024 Man and Woman of the Year
… Actors Barry Keoghan and Annette Bening will be the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 2024 Man and Woman of the Year, the group announced, with Man of the Year festivities set to take place on February 2, …