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Football 2017: Harvard 21, Columbia 14
… instructions to all his reserves. Because two (at least) of Harvard’s subs heeded that admonition, last Saturday the Crimson escaped from New York City’s Robert K. Kraft … 2017, and a 3-2 mark in Ivy League play, making them part of a four-team, second-place logjam that now also includes …
Shawn's “Marie and Bruce” Opens
… A revival of Wallace Shawn's 1979 play Marie and Bruce opened in New York at the Acorn Theater on Theater Row, staged by The New Group, on April 5. A Harvard Magazine profile of Shawn took note of the production, then in …
Henry Rosovsky Memorial Service May 31
… P resident Lawrence S. Bacow has invited the Harvard community to remember and celebrate Henry … citizen and a towering intellect, was Geyser University Professor and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences emeritus, former acting …
Case Dismissed
… When Harvard denied tenure to political theorist Peter Berkowitz, an associate professor of government, in 1998, he filed an internal grievance, …
Issue: September-October 2003
Harvard Medical School Launches HMX
… Harvard Medical School (HMS) has joined the growing number of academic institutions that offer coursework online. Their series, HMX, is now open to …
Is Teach for America Good for America?
… “It’s like you’re the special ops team that’s coming in to rescue education … is an all-star…but I do think it’s problematic to right off the bat blame the shortcomings of education on the people who are trying the hardest to fix …
Spring Sports
… Men's Crew The Crimson decisively swept the Harvard-Yale boat race (the … Baseball The Crimson (20-25,16-7 Ivy) swept a two-game playoff with Princeton to capture the Ivy title. Ben Crockett '02 was Ivy League co-Pitcher of the Year. Softball Harvard (31-10, 15-3 Ivy) posted its …
Issue: July-August 2002
Cosmopolitan Horse
… Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Art Museums Vital , handsome, standing … its good looks. First, it is large: four feet high from hoof to ear tip. According to Robert D. Mowry, Dworsky curator of Chinese art at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, numerous equine sculptures of …
Issue: March-April 2006
Overseers Election Update: Voting Postponed
… . This news announcement updates yesterday’s post about the election and various endorsements of candidates, from both the Harvard Alumni Association … governing boards—the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers—announced this afternoon that the annual …
Emerging Maine Artists
… dotting a sunny harbor; pine trees and craggy rocks along the ocean. There’s none of that, though, in As We Are. This show of works by 14 emerging Maine artists at the Portland Museum …
Issue: March-April 2025
Broadway in His Blood
… Ask Michael Mitnick ’06 what kind of singing voice he has and he replies, “A bad one.” Inquire … better than I am.” Mitnick will admit to being “much more of a composer than a pianist,” though even there he claims that his sister, Jenny, is his superior. For …
Issue: November-December 2005
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 … Harvard Magazine visited Summers at his Kennedy School office for a reflective conversation about these activities …
Issue: May-June 2016
Yesterday's News
… 1914 Parading with a Harvard banner may be a criminal offense. The Massachusetts legislature, responding to the Lawrence … a crimson H.” 1919 “As horses still form important means of traction for artillery in the field,” students enrolled …
Issue: November-December 2024
Brevia
… to Freshmen William C. Kirby Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Welcoming his first College entering class as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, William C. Kirby played …
Issue: November-December 2002
Yearning to Escape
… James Laughlin ’36, an heir of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation of Pittsburgh, founded the avant-garde publishing house New …
Issue: November-December 2014