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Football 2018: Harvard 29, Penn 7
… Harvard football coach Tim Murphy is fond of saying, “It’s what up front that counts.” On Saturday at Franklin Field against longtime Ivy rival Penn, there was much for Murphy to be fond of as his Crimson offensive and defensive lines—the latter …
Libraries Announce New Organizational Structure
… The Harvard Library Board, composed of faculty and … library within the Harvard Library system will join one of five affinity groups based on criteria such as collection … or specialized activities. The five groups comprise libraries focused on application of theory in practice, …
Al Gore Named 2019 Class Day Speaker
… advocate Al Gore ’69, LL.D. ’94, will address the class of 2019 on College Class Day, May 29, the day … Commencement. The fiftieth-reunioner is also a member of the class that saw some of the most momentous, divisive …
Dunster Diaspora
… While most upperclassmen returned to their former dormitories for the beginning of the fall semester, the residents of Dunster—one of the oldest of Harvard’s Houses, and the …
University People
… HCF to HBS Under executive director Richard B. Boardman , the Harvard College Fund has become the premier annual … giving organization in higher education (see "An Instrument of Good Will," November-December 2000, page 58). Now … the Charles. July 1, he began working as chief development officer at Harvard Business School, where he will run an …
Issue: July-August 2002
FAS's Progress--and Prognosis
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith invited professors and staff members to an “FAS Financial Update and Other FY ’09 Accomplishments” briefing on September 15. His …
Issue: November-December 2009
Arrested Development
… Bowing to financial reality, the University announced in December that, as expected, it … on its huge science facility in Allston—the first part of an ambitiously envisioned campus expansion during the … and as it occurs. These decisions may not have surprised the Allston community, but they did pose new …
Issue: March-April 2010
Harvard College to Merge Freshmen, Student Life Offices
… The Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) and Office of Student Life (OSL) will merge into one Dean of … Harvard College Rakesh Khurana announced in an email today. The change will take effect in July, once dean of freshmen …
Questions for a Friend
… Adapted from an article by Pipes that ran in the Jerusalem Post on November 26, 2003 If militant Islam is the problem and moderate Islam is the solution, as I often argue, how does one differentiate between these two forms of Islam? It is often useful to ask questions. Such …
Issue: January-February 2005
From Crimson Madness to March Madness?
… Introducing Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report On Friday evening, October 17, Crimson Madness—a kickoff event to celebrate the start of the Harvard men’s basketball team’s fall practices—began …
Arsenic and Old Lead
… The Arnold Arboretum anticipated closing a deal last … two other structures) in Weston, Massachusetts, to the town of Weston for $22.5 million. But first the town “decided … needed to test some soils,” says Robert E. Cook, Arnold professor and director of the arboretum. “What they discovered …
Issue: September-October 2007
Harvard Football Great Performances: Colton Chapple ’13
… Had the coronavirus not scrambled the Harvard gridiron season … Ivy League football in earnest, with the final five games of the 2020 campaign against rivals from the Ancient Eight. … without games, football correspondent Dick Friedman reprises past Crimson glories: epic plays, players, and …
A Letter to Our Readers
… undergraduates who were able to leave departed campus by the College’s Sunday, 5:00 p.m. target—Harvard faculties and … at this extraordinary moment, to: produce the next issue of the magazine and deliver it to you in a timely way; … University news —as teaching has moved online for the rest of the semester; the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and other …
John S. Rosenberg , Irina Kuksin
Negatively Curved Crystals
… In Norman Juster’s children’s book The Phantom Tollbooth , the land of infinity can be reached by following a line drawn on the … in a hurry, an exhibition now on display on the first floor of the Science Center offers a shortcut. Cabot professor of …
Harvard Releases Barron Report on Access to Electronic Communications
… communications released its recommendations today. The work began in March 2013, following a controversy about … Board disciplinary proceeding; some particulars of that proceeding—which concerned a massive case of student academic dishonesty —had leaked, prompting …