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… During the past three-plus decades, Harvard has invested immensely … permission to develop parcels, arrange commercial use of leased acreage, build the engineering and applied … sciences complex, and now to proceed toward the “enterprise research campus” (including privately owned buildings …
Issue: January-February 2022
“Foot, Ball, Goal”
… The Harvard women’s soccer team seized its moment on a … lone player in league history to be named rookie and player of the year as a freshman, Harvard’s star forward had been … into the box (a pass into the rectangular area in front of the goal) and Purce, using the outside of her right foot, …
Issue: July-August 2015
A Welcome Change
… Last week, a brimming crowd of grayed, bespectacled, and Tyvek-ed Cantabrigians, dotted throughout with important figures from the Harvard administration and faculty, packed into Sanders … for Advanced Study and a Radcliffe Medal, was just coming off of a run of an original play, Notes from the Field: …
Football: Harvard 41, Cornell 31
… The Crimson and Big Red football teams struggled mightily … Jeff Mathews to receiver Shane Savage on the third play of the game. Mathews, last season’s Ivy League rookie of the year, finished the game with 322 passing yards and …
Teach a Man to Fish
… Having spent the last days of the groundfishing season on the open ocean east of Cape Cod, Russell Sherman ’71 chugged into Gloucester …
Issue: July-August 2016
Namwali Serpell’s Novel-In-Progress
… reading on Wednesday afternoon, author Namwali Serpell offered listeners a taste of her newest novel-in-progress. A fiction writer, essayist, … sort of homecoming, after receiving her Ph.D. from the University in 2008. Born in Zambia and raised mostly in …
Finding Fuller
… can blame me? Toby "Hank" Fuller Jr. worked his way up from the junior-varsity football team to play right end on the varsity squad. As a surprise last-minute addition to the hockey team, he scored the … and honorable that he shouldered the blame when the dean of the College summoned him to University Hall to account …
Issue: May-June 2003
Dickinson’s Trinity
… Winter looms, but the artistic imagination can summon the warmer seasons. Porter University Professor Helen Vendler has turned her critical skills to … $35) begins with a deceptively simple verse: In the name of the Bee - And of the Butterfly - And of the Breeze - …
Issue: November-December 2010
Saving Stephen Hawking
… degrees at Commencement. It’s also a tradition to honor the reunion-class marshals after the morning exercises by … the honorands during a reception, a lunch, and a tour of the campus, and finally to the Commencement day afternoon exercises. As First Marshal of the College class of 1965 for a quarter-century, I was …
Birding, Dancing, Cooking…
… The warming New England season calls for getting out and … 120 properties and preserved landscapes across the state, offers activities from hikes and paddling excursions to art … (March 23). For a more human focus, enjoy an evening of traditional Irish music and dance with the ensemble Eight …
Issue: March-April 2025
Highlighting Indigenous People’s “Connection to a Place”
… In late May , the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Executive Committee … and annual meetings will open with a formal acknowledgment of the alumni community’s debts to and connections with … the Harvard Charter of 1650. “You would be really surprised to know how many students, faculty, staff, are just …
Larry Summers Reflects
… In the decade since Lawrence H. Summers departed Massachusetts … Hall, the former Harvard president, now Eliot University Professor, took a sabbatical; resumed teaching; joined … financial system, which is critical to buffering crises, and one party doesn’t understand trade. I am sure …
Harvard College Reinstitutes Mandatory Testing
… Harvard announced today that the College will reinstitute mandatory submission of standardized test scores for applicants, beginning with students applying for fall 2025 admission (the class of 2029). Until today’s decision, the College had a …
Allston Plan and Schedule Endorsed by Harvard Corporation
… In a September 19 letter to the Harvard and Allston communities released today, … N. Lapp announced the Harvard Corporation’s endorsement of the University's Allston Work Team recommendations … housing and a retail center; and to create an “enterprise research” park with a hotel and conference center. The …
Harvard Corporation Elects Shirley Tilghman
… and remains a faculty member: she has been elected a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s senior governing … an anchor for the biotechnology and life-sciences enterprises clustered in and around Cambridge’s Kendall Square. …