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Football: Harvard 24, Cornell 7
… It was a dark and stormy half. The first 30 minutes of the Harvard football team’s game … 7-0. Afterward, Cornell coach David Archer expressed surprise over Murphy’s decision to go for it. “I thought they …
Catholic Socialist
… craziness," says John C. Cort '35, complaining of the socialist literature he gets in the mail, "without even … Never straying far from the philosophical underpinnings of his Catholic faith, he recounts nearly a century of …
Issue: January-February 2004
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
Waldo Peirce
… tobacco shop on Mass. Ave. Peirce and Hemingway show off their catch in a detail from a 1928 photograph that they … friend, the publisher Sylvia Beach. Photograph courtesy of Princeton University Library Peirce did find time to earn …
Issue: January-February 2002
Harvard’s Standoff: The Financial Stakes
… endowment might sound limitless, but not when compared to the University’s annual expenses: $6.5 billion. If Harvard … seem large when considering that it is not a single pot of money but 14,600 separate funds. Eighty percent of those funds are restricted to specific uses defined by …
Issue: July-August 2025
Business Brief
… its $500-million capital campaign—and to foster the ethos of more complete disclosure by corporations and other … charged for the M.B.A. program, the core educational enterprise ($58 million); and distributions from the school's …
Issue: September-October 2003
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 …
Jobs Well Done
… four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf during 2019, and confer a … with being a freshman (September-October, page 46)—one of the nicest surprises we’ve ever received over the transom. Lily Scherlis …
Issue: January-February 2020
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
XDR-TB Can Be Treated
… tuberculosis (XDR-TB) can be treated in some patients, if they are not co-infected with HIV and have access to … care, according to a study published in the August 7 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). More than 60 percent of HIV-negative XDR …
Harvard College Applications Level Off
… College received 34,285 applications for admission to the class of 2016, about 2 percent fewer than the 34,950 received last … to the College’s news release, William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid, attributed the decline, …
On Doing Nothing
… I took this past semester , my junior spring, off from Harvard. What was I trying to accomplish? It took a few months to realize it, but the truest answer I can give is “nothing, really.” What kind of a Harvard student spends a few months he could have spent …
News in Brief
… Top Trio President Lawrence S. Bacow had the rare opportunity in late November to appoint three faculty members to University Professorships: Harvard’s highest distinction for scholars, … which lower-income families qualify. African Americans comprised 14.4 percent of those admitted early (up from 13.9 …
Issue: March-April 2023
Measuring Mankind and Muskrats
… 1933 documenting life in several remote Native villages in the interior of Alaska. In addition to producing landmark scholarly works … appear as Tanana and Chandalar: The Alaska Field Journals of Robert A. McKennan, edited by Craig Mishler and William …
Issue: July-August 2006
Brevia
… Shirley M. Tilghman, LL.D. ’04, president emerita of Princeton, has been elected a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation. She began serving as of January 1, … New York-based teams,” it welcomed an initial nine enterprises, ranging from an online-fitness firm and a maternal …
Issue: March-April 2016