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Imperial Salukis
… “Chinese emperors were expected to be cultured gentlemen, whether they were or not,” says Robert D. Mowry, Dworsky curator of Chinese art at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. They were … in ink and light colors on a paper album leaf, is the work of the fifth Ming emperor, Zhu Zhanzi, who is usually known …
Issue: May-June 2007
Mice Aren’t Men
… People like to think experiments using the scientific method proceed according to airtight … its own tenets, and call into question whole categories of experiments. A recent paper coauthored by associate professor of pediatrics H. Shaw Warren does just that. In a …
Issue: May-June 2013
From Specialty to Shortage
… When Susan Block , a professor of psychiatry and medicine, started practicing medicine more than three decades ago, there was no formal field of palliative care. Today, it is …
Issue: March-April 2015
$7 Billion, and Counting
… The academic year began, promisingly, with the announcement … gifts and pledges totaling “more than $7 billion” as of this past June 30, the end of fiscal year 2016. In nominal terms, not adjusted for …
Issue: November-December 2016
Home Among Strangers
… There is a familiar rapture that engulfs the beginning of an … were largely seniors, living on and around campus—I was surprised by the extent to which pre-pandemic norms were in …
Celebrating Senior Alumni
… Rhoda Lesser Diamond ’42, of Martha’s Vineyard, and Leon Starr ’40, of Rye, New York, were the oldest Harvard and Radcliffe alumni present on …
Issue: July-August 2017
Khalil Abdur-Rashid
… As Harvard’s Muslim chaplain, Khalil Abdur-Rashid thinks of his work—including leading prayer each Friday, hosting … activities—as helping students to develop their “ ‘SQ,’ what I call their spiritual quotient.” In the process, he often finds himself helping them navigate multiple cultural …
Issue: November-December 2018
Football: Harvard 34, Columbia 0
… Say this for Columbia football: the players may lose game after game, but they keep … has lost every game this season, has been shut out in two of its last three games, and has been outscored, 330-57. Its leading ground-gainer has a bad ankle, and five of its offensive starters are freshmen. With a league record …
Football 2019: Dartmouth 9, Harvard 6
… you are bound to experience bitter losses. But few in the annals of Harvard gridiron lore have been as heart-ripping, … literally snatched from victory suffered at the hands of Dartmouth on Saturday at Harvard Stadium. It was all the …
Endowment Enigmas
… During the past two decades , this magazine has covered Harvard … by students, faculty members, and alumni for divestment of endowment fossil-fuel assets, and University responses to … Corporation has declined to divest, but is pursuing a goal of “net-zero” greenhouse-gas emissions across the investment …
Issue: November-December 2021
Harvard Graduate Leads in NBA Analytics
… Jason Rosenfeld ’12 didn’t delude himself with dreams of athletic stardom. “As you could probably tell by looking at me,” he says in the opening minute of a Zoom interview, “I’m not tall or athletic enough to …
Issue: July-August 2021
Skipper with a Stopwatch
… Jason Saretsky, Harvards new head coach of cross country and track and field (he succeeds Frank … competed as a middle-distance runner, specializing in the 800-meter run, which many identify as the most painful … meets the distance runner, and the sustained intensity of effort induces a ferocious lactic-acid burn late in the …
Issue: November-December 2006
Football 2017: Harvard 25, Dartmouth 22
… home turf by Princeton 52-17, and after spotting Dartmouth the first 14 points in this weekend’s game, Harvard’s football team rallied behind the resourceful play of quarterback Jake Smith ’21 for a 25-22 win over the Big … between the two ancient rivals. “I’ve seldom been prouder of a football team,” said Harvard coach Tim Murphy, speaking …
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected …
Issue: July-August 2017
Newly elected Overseers and HAA directors
… The new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the …
Issue: July-August 2022