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Chapter & Verse
… Miranda Yousef asks for titles of any novels that reprint this excerpt from Ford Madox … "In October 1914": "This is Charing Cross; it is past one of the clock;/There is very little light./There is so much …
Issue: November-December 2003
Harvard Responds to Violence in Israel
… Saturday morning , militants from the terrorist group Hamas stormed into Israel by foot, air, and sea. During the surprise attack launched from Gaza, Hamas killed more than 900 … 2,600, and captured more than 100, according to Israeli officials. An ocean away, Harvard affiliates were deeply …
Mapping the Human Brain
… Might memories and habitual actions be hardwired into the brain’s physical structure? Knowles professor of molecular and cellular biology Jeff Lichtman thinks it’s …
Issue: September-October 2024
Big Sky Blues
… voyages lasting 12 hours each way between his hometown of Chester, Montana, and Spokane to study piano with master … Ott. Four decades later, Ott is 86 and Aaberg still makes the same rail jaunt on occasion, and sometimes even takes a … Area. A Great Northern steam engine appears on the cover of Aabergs newest CD, Blue West, a collection of bluesy …
Issue: November-December 2006
Harvard Launches Center for LGBTQ Health
… The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute announced the launch of a new LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence on June 4, in partnership with the Harvard …
The Psychology of Virtual Reality
… Virtual reality (VR) technology represents the convergence of several sets of major forces in modern postindustrial life: big tech, …
Football 2022: Harvard 28-Dartmouth 13
… Last Saturday in Hanover, New Hampshire, the Harvard football team achieved what classics … Wimberly, the Ivy League’s leading receiver, was carried off the field near the end of the first half, apparently unable to put weight on his …
Frank Rich Headlines HGLC Commencement Dinner
… Magazine columnist Frank Rich ’71, previously a longtime theater critic and political columnist for The New York Times who was profiled in Harvard Magazine in 2007, will be the speaker at the annual dinner of the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus (HGLC), held on the …
Harvard Can Continue Hosting International Students, Judge Says
… request for a preliminary injunction—halting, for now, the Trump administration’s attempt to prevent the University … hosting international students. On May 22, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had announced it was revoking … (SEVP) certification, which would strip the University of its ability to host international students on its campus. …
Sleeping Smarter
… year, in order to experience all that college had to offer, I decided to cut sleep out of my life entirely. … that multiple meetings overlapped each evening, I faced the daily interference of my academic life with my social … talk show that comes on afterward. When our stomachs surprised us by growling eight hours after dinner, we made …
Issue: November-December 2001
Football: Princeton 51, Harvard 48
… a year ago, a scoring pass from Epperly to Wilson topped off the 29-point rally that gave the Tigers a 39-34 upset victory over Harvard in the final seconds of play. That devastating defeat dropped the Crimson from …
“This Is About Justice”
… speaking via video conference to a capacity crowd at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, where he delivered a brief address and took … Russian president Vladimir Putin’s renewed threats of nuclear attacks as a “blackmailing statement” and rebuked …
Hillary Clinton to Receive Radcliffe Medal
… Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will receive the Radcliffe Medal during the Radcliffe Day luncheon on May 25. Another former secretary of state—Madeleine Albright, the 2001 Radcliffe …
Private Universities Must Recognize Graduate-Student Unions
… Graduate students at private universities have the right to form labor unions, the National Labor Relations … students engaged in paid teaching and research as part of their degree programs should be considered employees … to form a labor union, has gathered signatures in favor of organizing from a majority of graduate students whom they …
“Leaving a Legacy”
… On a late January Saturday in 2013, the Harvard men’s basketball team trailed visiting Dartmouth … where the Crimson prevailed 82-77. It was a defining moment of Webster’s Harvard career. This past Saturday, the team … trailed 29-20, but the 59 total points scored by the class of 2016 eventually powered the team past Dartmouth 77-70, …