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Tennis Rampant
… The Harvard men's and women's tennis teams were both … winning percentage (.808) and most wins (21) in the history of the program. At season's end they were ranked number 14 … Ivy title and hand Penn its first Ivy loss since the spring of 2000. The women then defeated Oklahoma State, 4-1, and …
Issue: July-August 2003
Gail Collins on “When Everything Changed”
… New York Times columnist Gail Collins, author of When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, gave this year’s …
Bench Strength
… concluded this academic year: Kathleen McCartney departs the Graduate School of Education to become president of Smith College; Michael Shinagel retires as dean of …
Issue: July-August 2013
Music, Italian Style
… Editor’s note: Knafel professor of music Thomas Forrest Kelly is widely known for his “First Nights” course on the debut of significant works of music (the course, which …
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, …
“I Want to Hear About You”
… Zoom—by talking about vulnerability, human connection, and the coronavirus’s disruptions of everyday routines. “There’s not much to recommend a pandemic, but it has made more dimensions of our lives visible to one another and created …
Football 2021: Harvard 38, Holy Cross 13
… On Saturday, in a football game that had more reversals of fortune than a James Bond movie, Harvard staked itself to … a large halftime lead, allowed Holy Cross to creep back in, then finally put away the doughty Crusaders to win 38-13. … failed. Harvard 24, Holy Cross 6. Then the Crusaders surprised the Crimson by recovering an onside kick. (We had an …
Cambridge 02138
… Suicide Elizabeth Gudrais's otherwise excellent article on Matthew Nock's research on … page 32) contains a significant omission: the centrality of the therapist-patient relationship in treating the … coach ( Harvard Portrait , January-February, page 45), surprises me for its harshness. I would not have thought that …
Issue: March-April 2011
New Fellows
… This fall semester, seniors Isa Flores-Jones and Catherine “Cat” Zhang join this magazine’s editorial staff as … the November-December issue, and reporting on other aspects of student and University life, among other responsibilities. Flores-Jones, of Sacramento, balances history and literature coursework …
Issue: September-October 2018
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
Bodies in Motion
… Grooving , diving, dancing, and flipping, the bodies caught in gravity-defying motion in New … Park through March 13, reflects on the aesthetic nature of physicality through contemporary photographs and videos that viewers of almost any age can appreciate. Take Dara Friedman’s …
Issue: January-February 2023
Teaching Nutrition in Medical Education
… final semester this spring, she was in part motivated by the benefits to her own health. Students get to cook and eat during class, while learning how to take better care of themselves amid the rigors of medical school. Plus, it meant free food. But she was …
Proof Positive
… This type of unconventional clock is commonly used to illustrate … clock has 7 “hours”; each “hour” position holds a set of numbers that are congruent modulo 7, or separated by … 7. For one particularly elusive set of equations, earlier mathematicians located an ingenious but labor-intensive …
Issue: September-October 2008
Stunned
… On Saturday evening, the mood in the Harvard men’s basketball locker room was … on his head. The team’s jerseys were stacked in the center of the room, and a pair of reporters lingered as the players … more competitive and nationally relevant. The stakes have risen, and if Harvard wants to win again, it will need to …
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 …