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“We’ll Get ’Em Next Year”
… —for a long while, actually—everything is all smiles on the sidelines of Saturday afternoon’s Harvard-Yale game, where the … fans have packed into the stadium for the 12:30 p.m. kickoff, and the atmosphere is electric. In their crimson …
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal The Farmers' Market at Harvard … (rain or shine) 26 Oxford Street (new location: in front of the Harvard Museum of Natural History) In Allston: Fridays, 3-7 p.m. Corner of …
Issue: September-October 2012
Internet-era Students, Meet Rare Books
… and Lamont.” She had never seen anyone enter or leave the building, and had no knowledge of what went on inside. Now, after a summer spent working … there as a Houghton Undergraduate Fellow, her impression of the library—Harvard’s primary repository for rare books …
Behind the Scenes: “A Right Way to Read?”
… Staff writer Nina Pasquini examines the state of literacy education and the gaps between … research—like the scholarship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE)—to policy and the classrooms where …
Jorie Graham Wins Poetry Prize
… Poet Jorie Graham, Harvard’s Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory, has become the first American woman to win the Forward Prize for best …
Investigating "Institutional Corruption": $12.3-Million Gift for Center for Ethics
… A $12.3 -million gift from Lily Safra will strengthen the University's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics , which is named in honor of her late husband (read Harvard Magazine's article on the … established in 1986 as a program in ethics and the professions, has convened scholars, fellows, and speakers, …
A Second Pulitzer for Colson Whitehead
… In 2017, Colson Whitehead ’91 won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his harrowing novel The … people from a historic metaphor to an actual system of tracks and trains propelling Cora, his protagonist, on … Boys, honored as “A spare and devastating exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida that is …
President Drew Faust’s Banquet Remarks
… In her evening address , President Faust built upon the details of Harvard’s history of educational involvement with China: some 250 Chinese …
Issue: May-June 2010
Spectacular Swimming and Diving
… The men’s swimming and diving team (8-0) won the Ivy … fourth consecutive year; no Ivy swimmer had ever won any of these races four times. At the NCAAs, Cole took tenth in … At the NCAAs, Noelle Bassi ’07 set a new Harvard record of 1:59.29 in the 200 butterfly, while Jaclyn Pangilinan ’08 …
Issue: May-June 2005
edX Exit
… May 2012 to provide public online courses free worldwide, they chose a nonprofit model in part to stave off the for-profit enterprises launched by Stanford computer scientists: Udacity and …
John S. Rosenberg , Jonathan Shaw
Issue: September-October 2021
Greener Pastures
… The forms taken by human shelters are changing as architects … more compactly, and focus attention on the essential beauty of the natural world. This article appears in two parts; … Joni Mitchell could sing about what’s happened on 113 acres of idyllic farmland just outside Peterborough, New …
Issue: July-August 2010
Faust Names Grosz Radcliffe Institute Interim Dean
… naming computer scientist Barbara J. Grosz, Higgins professor of natural sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' School of Engineering and …
Margaret Marshall: Judiciary’s Impartiality Is Endangered
… ’78, grew up in Newcastle, South Africa, during a time when the government controlled the courts and judges were … the Radcliffe Medal, the first female Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court stressed the critical importance of fair and impartial courts in the American legal system. …
Harvard Calendar
… SPECIAL. The thirty-second annual ice skating exhibition An Evening … . NATURE. The Arnold Arboretum' s annual fall plant sale (offering rare specimens, native flora, and discussions with … sponsors free observatory nights on the third Thursday of every month. For information, call 617-495-7461. MUSIC. …
Issue: September-October 2001
Postmodern Medicine
… potential or actual patients, with physicians, in a system of social, moral, and organizational understandings. So writes Monrad professor of the social sciences Charles E. Rosenberg in O ur Present …
Issue: March-April 2008