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Head Baseball Coach Joe Walsh Dies Suddenly
… with Harvard athletics, Massachusetts baseball, and the larger baseball community,” Nichols Family director of athletics Bob Scalise told The Boston Globe . “Joe’s … in the Ivy League and he positively impacted the lives of so many people. To say that he will be missed would be an …
Holy Cross 27, Harvard 20
… Late-game heroics were a specialty of last year’s Crimson team, but there was no miracle finish at Worcester’s Fitton Field last … defenders more than they could handle, completing 25 of 39 passes for 293 yards and two touchdowns, and scoring …
Counterterrorism and Democracy
… When the United States declared war on al Qaeda, it simply … that other democracies before us had followed in the wake of terrorist atrocities," says Louise Richardson, the departing executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (in January, …
Issue: January-February 2009
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
Whales Aplenty
… The hunters launched in mid August from Iceland and steamed … sail the first boat found its quarry, and with the blast of a harpoon cannon, Iceland resumed whaling for the first … from around the world and rekindled debate on the future of whaling. Some species are recovering from relentless …
Issue: November-December 2003
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 …
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
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 …
Hiram Hunn Awards 2014
… Seven alumni are to receive the Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, on September 19. The …
Issue: September-October 2014
Banner Day
… "Return to Harvard Day," on Wednesday, April 19, offers alumni of all College classes, and this year's reunion classes, their spouses, and high-school-age children in particular, …
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
An “Egalitarian Curiosity”
… What obstacles impede the free exchange of ideas in college classrooms? And how … Speech on Campus,” a September 20 talk by Vuilleumier professor of philosophy Edward “Ned” Hall that was followed by …
Addressing Big Questions
… The ROTC Commissioning Ceremony , conducted Wednesday morning, focuses attention on a small number of graduating students (four members of the class of 2015) who have made an extraordinary …
Issue: July-August 2015
Coming Out at Harvard
… University administrators interrogated students suspected of being gay. This inquisition led to eight expulsions and … his life just days before he was to receive his degree from the School of Dental Medicine. (Author William Wright … 13 (a group that still exists). Rogers said she was surprised by “the profound sense of loneliness and isolation” …
Issue: November-December 2008
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