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Update: Harvard versus Lehigh
… A stunning defensive play was the game-saver in a 27-24 win over Lehigh at the Stadium on … Defensive end Peter Ajayi managed to grab the back of Clark’s jersey, and the football flew into the hands of Crimson linebacker Glenn Dorris. Game over. Harvard had …
Military Recruiting Upheld
… The Supreme Court ruled on March 6 that the federal government can cut off funding to universities that limit or ban military … million in federal research funding annually. A coalition of law schools filed suit, alleging that the amendment …
Issue: May-June 2006
Beyond Ramen Noodles
… On a Monday night in late March, dozens of graduate students stand around a brightly lit lounge where tables are covered with many different kinds of pies. The conversation is warm and animated; professor of public …
Issue: May-June 2011
Lonesome No Longer
… Sweet-talking the crowd, the musicians of the contemporary folk trio … swung from an aching ballad to a blazing, breakneck cover of “Johnny B. Goode.” In the past few years, Wisewater’s …
Issue: September-October 2015
Brevia
… Robert C. Clark Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News Office Legal Leader Thanksgiving week, Robert C. Clark , a corporate-law scholar who has been dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) since 1989, announced that he will step down at the end of the academic year. Clark cited the length of his …
Issue: January-February 2003
Allston Ambitions
… letter to his faculty is especially interesting this year. The headline item—that HBS exceeded its $1-billion capital … less than the intended aims: more associate professorships and practitioner-teachers; more fellowships; … flexible funding for innovation; and “realizing the vision of One Harvard by supporting work across the University …
Issue: May-June 2017
Connecting with Prisoners and Their World
… Sociology professor Bruce Western often asks his students, “How would you like to be defined by the worst thing you’ve ever done?” By and large, that is …
First-Gen Frontlines
… those days and in my culture, only ‘bad girls’ left the family prior to matrimony.” Given her domestic … years later could Esposito come to understand the intensity of her mother’s anger, emanating …from the fear of losing me to a world she and the family did not …
Issue: January-February 2020
Liftoff
… The Harvard Campaign , officially launched on September 21 after the quietest of quiet phases, seeks $6.5 billion—the largest initial …
Issue: November-December 2013
Update: Harvard versus Cornell
… Harvard faced Cornell at the Stadium on October 11 with three top receivers sidelined … sophomore Levi Richards, as well as Chrissis’s second score of the day, a 22-yard scamper on a reverse that put Harvard … co-favorite Yale. The Crimson compiled 423 yards in total offense, diversifying its potent passing attack with …
Leadership Tips from a "Soldier Scholar"
… The eight graduating Harvard seniors about to be commissioned as military officers on June 3 had already received an exceptional … Command, noted: a Harvard degree, and an excellent Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program. “As you prepare for …
Family or Fortune
… career is perhaps obvious. But new research by Lee professor of economics Claudia Goldin and Allison professor of economics Lawrence Katz shows just how bad the quality of life is for financial-sector workers. The …
Issue: January-February 2010
Harvard Portrait: Jennifer Lewis
… Lewis’s engineered materials look to nature as a guide. The new Wyss professor of biologically inspired engineering uses 3-D printing to …
Issue: November-December 2013
Objecting to Student Oaths
… Since last spring, the College’s policy to sanction members of unrecognized … the chooser. So it should perhaps come as little surprise that Haig finds himself again at odds with the …
![The 1946 team: Coach Stahl stands at left in back; Don Swegan wears #14, third from left. [Jack Clark apparently missed the photo.]](https://www.harvardmagazine.com//sites/default/files/styles/topic_teaser/public/img/article/0312/bkm_194546_sm_0.jpg.webp?itok=bF5Ikyow "Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Athletic Communications Office")
Hoopsters from 1946 Redux
… With Harvard, Ivy League champions and the #12 seed in the East, set to play Vanderbilt, the #5 seed, Thursday at the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament in Albuquerque, the sports … on the historic game. Jeffrey Toobin ’82, J.D. ’86, of The New Yorker, for example, wrote an online post …