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Frenetic Fall
… The fall semester began with a lot of news, including … page 26); the annual endowment report (plus announcement of the investment managers’ new senior leadership—see “Close …
Issue: November-December 2014
Fast Start
… Although she will not move into the president’s office in Massachusetts Hall until July 1, … her transition briskly. Drawing on her experience as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (in which …
Issue: May-June 2007
Fall Sports Synopsized
… Women’s Soccer Undefeated in the ivies , the Crimson side (14-2-1 overall, 6-0-0 Ivy) won … the second, against Boston College (BC) in the second round of the NCAA tournament. The NCAA playoffs seeded Harvard, the Northeast’s top team, eighth in the …
CS50 Comes to Yale
… we ready? Let’s do lights.” With those words from Yale professor Brian Scassellati, the room went dark, and the hundreds of students who’d swarmed through the aisles of the Yale Law …
Margaret Marshall to Rejoin Boston Firm and Law School
… Former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Margaret Marshall , … many shared values, including a deep respect for the rule of law and the important role it plays in the lives of …
Language Lessons
… in Latvia in December and is now rediscovering her other roots, in Minnesota. As an American, it's pretty darned … foreign-language acquisition is not the abysmal state of foreign-language education in the United States (although that certainly deserves part of the blame). From the haughty waiters in France who refuse …
Issue: January-February 2002
Go Wild
… How often have you wandered the Arnold Arboretum or a Trustees property, longing to … you can—and you can do it responsibly—with rewilding. Think of it as the opposite of high-maintenance gardening, without …
Issue: March-April 2024
Repositioning Harvard House Life
… On a Tuesday night in early March, the Pforzheimer House Committee convened on a Zoom call, the … I don’t repeat history” The group riffed through a couple of different Pfoho-related lines that mirrored the couplet, … creating community is listening to the individuals who comprise it and what they need. So the community’s always a …
Self Improvement
… The President and Fellows of Harvard College --the … Turning to Harvard’s resources, different questions arise. It is already painfully known what happens to … today--and how much riskier for a $4-billion-per-year enterprise. Harvard has typically winnowed its separate faculties’ …
Issue: May-June 2010
A Literary Chameleon
… ’91 has written a zombie-apocalypse novel, a coming-of-age novel set in the world of the black elite, a satiric allegory following a … black privileged kids coming of age in the 1980s, was a surprise bestseller. Whitehead’s new novel, The Underground …
Issue: September-October 2016
Football: Harvard 31, Lafayette 3
… The football team lost a starting quarterback for the second time in three weeks, but still took the measure of Patriot League rival Lafayette with a 31-3 victory at the … Saturday. Harvard (2-1) has defeated Lafayette (1-4) in 10 of the teams’ last 11 meetings. The Leopards had pulled a …
Blake’s Whales
… exciting time to be a naturalist. Louis Agassiz, director of Harvard’s five-year-old Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), had embarked on a series of … patrons, and as one of Agassiz’s students and assistants, the young Blake, then in his twenties, began to draw and …
Father-Son Venture
… In the 12 years that Tom Fields-Meyer ’84 spent writing … he consider writing about his own family. Only on the eve of his departure from People in 2007, when his editor approached him on the subject, did he think of writing that personal story. In fact, he had been taking …
Issue: March-April 2012
Scary Superbugs
… This week's New Yorker has a sobering piece by Recanati professor of medicine Jerome Groopman on drug-resistant "superbugs." The article documents how, and why, we are losing the war …
Chapter & Verse
… Anne Daniels wonders if someone can identify the following statement, which was “evidently well-known in … the early twentieth century that turns on the juxtaposition of train schedules as presented in Bradshaw, the compendium of British Rail.” Marjorie Cohn would like to learn the …
Issue: July-August 2006