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Football 2018: Harvard 16, Rhode Island 23
… THERE are two ways to regard the Harvard football team’s … Friday evening. On the one hand: If you’re going to have an off night, the time to have it is during the early season in … League opponent. On the other hand: What if this was not an off night? Harvard Football Sign up for Harvard Magazine’ s …
Planning for a North Precinct
… open space in Cambridge is a parking lot, not far from the Biological Laboratories, that stretches all the way from … in addition to 590 surface parking spaces, a hodge-podge of buildings—including an outmoded physics lab, a small … the cyclotron—is scattered across this northern edge of the campus. Now plans are afoot to create a new green …
Issue: May-June 2002
Digital-age Policy
… Who owns Harvard courses? Professors? The University? As the potential audience grows—enabled by … money at stake. Some universities have asserted ownership of courses. Harvard, instead, has revised its policies on …
How Clean Is John Harvard?
… note: Readers should note that this article covers one of the least socially correct of Harvard undergraduate pranks. The John Harvard statue is …
Tsunami-Safe(r) Housing
… devastating tsunami leveled building walls that faced the sea in Sri Lanka—but walls perpendicular to the shoreline remained standing. A group of Graduate School of Design students (who styled themselves the Tsunami Design …
Issue: September-October 2005
Harvard Tops U.S. News Rankings
… its annual college rankings today, with Harvard at the top—the first time the University has ranked number one, … to the universe, with Harvard University again master of all it surveys." (Princeton and Yale rank second and … nice to be recognized in this way. However, our admissions officers always tell prospective students that they should …
Football 2019: Harvard 31, Holy Cross 21
… In this football era of offensive pyrotechnics, it is exceedingly rare that a … highlights are a punt and a bunch of sacks. But that was the case on Saturday when Harvard beat Holy Cross 31-21. …
Swept
… afternoon, freshmen Seth Towns and Bryce Aiken sat on a leather coach in the Lavietes Pavilion lounge, awaiting … to beat the defending NBA champions in a potential preview of the conference finals. The Harvard teams had a similar … this weekend’s inaugural Ivy tournament at the University of Pennsylvania. What should the second-seeded men (18-9 …
Reza Aslan on Faith, Jesus, and Fox News
… In a discussion Thursday at the Divinity School, New York Times bestselling author Reza … conversation about personal faith, the historical figure of Jesus, and the challenges of writing for a popular … to specific political and religious powers. The man that arises from that understanding may not look like the man you …
Behind the Scenes: Writing what only I can write
… THERE’S A QUOTE MY FORMER WRITING PROFESSOR LOVES, from … write.” I keep that quote on a sticky note near my desk. Of course, as a journalist, I don’t always get to choose …
Fall River: Phoenix Rising?
… The “P” word has long haunted Fall River. “People come to … much potential! ’” says Patrick Norton, executive director of Narrows Center for the Arts. “And we have been hearing … here. Fall River is a good place to be pleasantly surprised.” The Waterfront District A seven-mile stretch along …
Issue: May-June 2023
Harvard Calendar
… MUSIC. The Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society present a … Chorus presents Britten and Susa: Ceremony of Carols and Lullabies on December 6, and the Glee Club, … Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum , and Orchestra of Emmanuel Music perform Mozart's Requiem on December 15. …
Issue: November-December 2003
Sheryl Sandberg to Speak at HBS
… The chief operating officer of Facebook , Sheryl Sandberg ’91, M.B.A. ’95, will address … School (HBS) graduates as Class Day speaker on May 23, the school has announced . Since arriving from rival Google …
Dedicating Maxwell Dworkin
… liberal-arts center like Harvard, home to what is arguably the world's first computer, could also be called the birthplace of the world's most successful software company? Are we sure … affections. Harvard in this sense is a deeply human enterprise and institution." … How is it that a famous …
Anthony Woods: Taking a Stand
… When Anthony C. Woods, M.P.P. ’08, delivered the graduate English address at Commencement last June … he would be “eliminated” from the army on the grounds of “moral and professional dereliction” and required to repay $35,000—the …
Issue: January-February 2009