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Accomplished Contributors
… The editors take great pleasure in recognizing three … honors contributing editor Adam Kirsch '97, book critic of the New York Sun and author of the forthcoming book The Wounded Surgeon, a study of …
Issue: January-February 2005
Just Plain Silliness
… Just Plain Silliness Inspired silliness is the goal--but where inspiration temporarily falters, then by … silly silliness. For we're in Hasty Pudding Land, where all offenses against propriety or good taste are permissible and the only grievous artistic sin is a flagging of energy, a break in the flow of banter, puns, …
Chiara String Quartet
… When Julie Yoon joined the Chiara String Quartet in 2000, she not only gave up a … to do this residency,” Yoon says, “was a strong indication of what kind of people they were and what kind of group they wanted to …
Issue: January-February 2009
Plugged In
… M.B.A. ’93, and her family took along some items to ease the 20-hour drive from their Silicon Valley home. According … with interchangeable tips. At the campsite, the octopus of electronics was left in the car—virtually unmissed. But … not everyone is going to be happy,” she says. “Problems arise when information is being shared [with others] without …
Issue: May-June 2009
Reading the Winds
… When Sophia Montgomery first sailed, she hated it. Then eight years old, she disliked the waves and felt … getting hit by the boom—the long metal pole at the bottom of the sail. And she didn’t even know how to turn her boat … would drive two hours from Bangkok to the coastal city of Pattaya (which she calls “a very wild touristic place” …
Football 2022: Harvard 35-Brown 28
… overtime thriller last week against unheralded Merrimack , the Crimson traveled to Providence on Saturday and on a … Brown in the Ivy League opener for both teams. But instead of permitting its followers to luxuriate in a laugher, Harvard needed all of that cushion to stave off the Bears 35-28. The outcome …
Gomes Remembered as “Iconic Personality”
… A throng of almost a thousand gathered at Harvard’s Memorial Church on the morning of April 6 for a service celebrating the life and ministry …
Active Duty in a Pandemic
… From early April to the beginning of June, Richard Menger, M.P.A. ’16, who … neurosurgery and political science at the University of South Alabama, left his hotel at 6 a.m. each morning with …
Football: Harvard 31-Dartmouth 27
… On a weekend during which we turned the clock back, the Dartmouth football team desperately … Harvard football. “We’ve had close games, but the amount of mental toughness it takes to do what they did and focus … winning touchdown with 27 seconds left, then had to stave off that final Big Green drive. There were many heroes for …
Harry Parker
… The word “legend” gets applied almost indiscriminately to sports figures these days, but Harry Parker, head coach of heavyweight mens’ crew at Harvard for 51 years, was the … article. He may be the most successful coach in the history of American college sports: across the decades, his crews’ …
Issue: September-October 2013
Richard Blanco: “Navigating Identities”
… As a child , Richard Blanco—the youngest and first openly gay and Latino poet ever to read a poem at a U.S. presidential inauguration—often stood in the corner, silently observing his … memorizing even the smallest details. Living in the shadow of his grandmother, who verbally abused him for being gay, …
Harvardians Long-listed for National Book Awards [Updated]
… Updated 2014-10-15: The National Book Foundation has announced the shortlists … to leave five titles in each category. Evan Osnos ’98 and Professor E. O. Wilson are finalists in nonfiction, Maureen N. … at a ceremony and dinner on November 19. Members of the Harvard community were long-listed in three National …
Zelia Nuttall
… letters to her friend and mentor, Frederic Ward Putnam of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnography, “your goddaughter … and explain. She was just 29 years old when Putnam, one of the founders of modern anthropology, asked her to be special …
Issue: January-February 2024
Questing Eye
… Each night that it has run since its April launch, the 72-inch optical telescope at the Oak Ridge Observatory … Massachusetts, has quietly made a trillion measurements of the sky each second. That, its creators like to say, is … predict, and Ill give you any odds, that theres plenty of life in our galaxy alone, says professor of physics and …
Issue: November-December 2006
Football: Harvard 42, Bucknell 3
… Colton Chapple etched his name in the Harvard record book, and the Crimson defense ruled as … crushed Bucknell, 42-3, at the Stadium on Saturday. Topping off the University's 375th anniversary weekend, Chapple … targets in Harvard’s difficult-to-defend two-tight-end offense, each caught two of Chapple's scoring passes. His …