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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 …
John Harvard, Reader
… T ourists adore John Harvard, the statue, for their Yard photo ops. Development officers revere the man for his cash-giving precedent. Now, … Advocate , has performed the seemingly impossible act of putting the iconic image and the other aspect of …
Issue: May-June 2023
New Fellows
… The magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows … harvardmagazine.com, among other responsibilities. Lasky, of Menlo Park, California, and Lowell House, is a junior … and studied Argentine literature in Buenos Aires. Mulalu, of Gaborone, Botswana, and Adams House, is a sophomore …
Issue: September-October 2017
What This Country Needs
… Never mind the five-cent cigar. What this country needs is a good economic bull-detector program—along the lines of the faculty that Ernest Hemingway famously advised … is willing. At this time of global and domestic economic crises—with their concurrent political and diplomatic …
Issue: January-February 2010
Family Spirit, Wetly
… deciders moved Commencement forward from early June, they focused on the delights of late May (and were rewarded with 92-degree heat midweek, … and warmth. After a rain delay (and a merciful shortening of the formalities), the afternoon exercises proceeded with …
Issue: July-August 2017
Law School Dean Kagan Nominated To Be U.S. Solicitor General
… Elena Kagan will be nominated to serve as Solicitor General of the United States, according to an announcement by … "If confirmed by the Senate, I will resign the deanship of the Law School and take a leave of absence from the …
Football: Harvard 42, Lafayette 0
… It’s a football axiom: To win, you must establish the running game. Last Saturday at Fisher Stadium in Easton, … in a row—a streak second in NCAA Division I only to that of Ohio State (20)—was also the Crimson’s thirteenth … of junior Chad Kanoff. Their loss at Brown was a surprise; all credit must go to Bears coach Phil Estes for …
Harvard Law School Partners with Royall House and Slave Quarters
… Harvard Law School (HLS) has committed $500,000 to support the Royall House and Slave Quarters, a public museum in … Massachusetts. The gift, announced today, comes as part of a new partnership with the nonprofit meant to bolster collaboration on future research and …
Creative Kitchens
… Brattle St., 617-864-2100; aldenharlow.com), which replaced the local landmark Casablanca earlier this year, is well on … spots to eat and drink, depending on one’s mood, and a menu of inventive, even brash, combinations of tastes and textures, all in the form of “American-style …
Issue: May-June 2014
Honoris Causa
… degrees at Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced the honorands, and President Drew Faust read the citations, … S. O’Neill, Ph.D. ’69. A life peer in the British House of Lords, past president of the British Academy, professor of philosophy at the …
Issue: July-August 2010
Raiders Rehabilitated
… Gordon gekko, the antihero of the 1987 movie Wall Street , epitomizes the … his career studying those sectors, he says even he was surprised by the findings. “If you read something in a business …
Issue: July-August 2008
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 …
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
William Kaelin Wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
… William Kaelin , Farber professor of medicine, has won the Nobel Prize in physiology or …
Coping with Alzheimer’s
… In the summer of 2006 Harvard professor emerita Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz ’44, RI ’69—long … moderate or later-stage dementia, and that the number has risen within the last few decades. She questions whether …
Issue: September-October 2013