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Football 2022: Princeton 37-Harvard 10
… Harvard , last Friday night nearly 11,000 spectators at the Stadium as well as an ESPNU audience saw the Tigers … this bad a beatdown at home since they had been blasted out of Soldiers Field 52-17 by Princeton in 2017 in another … defense roamed the field and rarely gave the Harvard offense, particularly star senior running back Aidan …
Braxton Shelley
… five, he approached his church’s organist, fascinated by the man’s movement of hands and feet. The organist told Shelley, now assistant professor of music, to ask his grandmother to arrange lessons. …
Issue: May-June 2021
A Nearly Normal First-Year Move-In
… After a hunkered-down year, campus came to life today with the arrival of first-year students. Along with them came minivans with out-of-state license plates, family members lugging suitcases in …
A Radcliffe Return
… her favorite section: first balcony, left side, overlooking the Klarman Hall auditorium stage. As class begins, students … who Samuels is, too. At 85 years old, the Radcliffe class of 1955 graduate is at least a half-century older than … birthday. “I think the people in the orchestra were surprised to see an old grandma,” she jokes. But when the …
Issue: January-February 2020
“Hands On” with Fragile Glass Sea Creatures
… When James Hanken became the director of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) two decades ago, the museum’s …
Graduate English Oration: "Leaving Footprints in Time"
… Harvard College graduate stood right here and spoke of a woman whose life had been an inspiration to him. He spoke of her youthful determination to become a doctor, and of how that goal was nipped in the bud by the Holocaust that engulfed her homeland and much …
Ballet’s Geometry, Torqued
… with smartphone in hand, eyes fixed on an inches-wide video of the steps she should take. Two others windmill their arms, … arc and momentum just right. “It’s really unnatural!” one of them says. Supervising, choreographer Claudia Schreier …
Issue: May-June 2017
Houghton Library Features Children’s Books in Opening Exhibit
… With the extensive collection of children’s books donated by … renovated Houghton Library could have opened an exhibit of the genre’s “greatest hits.” Among other treasures, …
President Faust?
… The Crimson went live at 11:57 p.m. on February 8 with a web report that Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be … twenty-eighth president ( www.thecrimson.com ). A Board of Overseers meeting is being scheduled for this Sunday and …
Mnemonic Masks
… ago , Phillip Charette, M.Ed. '94, spent his days in an office, handling visa applications and other logistical concerns for international students, faculty, and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Now he makes his living as an artist, …
Issue: May-June 2009
Buzzing about Bees
… The Harvard Museum of Natural History is home to all sorts of intriguing preserved specimens, from dinosaur skeletons to animals from around the world. But in one corner of the arthropod gallery, amid …
Issue: May-June 2019
Brevia
… The Corporation Replenished Kenneth I. Chenault, J.D. ’76, … Gordon Mills ’75, M.B.A. ’77, have been elected members of the Harvard Corporation, the senior governing board, … Rubin ’60, LL.D. ’01 , whose service concludes at the end of the academic year. Chenault is chairman and chief …
Issue: May-June 2014
"I'll Never Get Over What Happened to My Son"
… About halfway through Monday evening’s panel discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School, Lezley McSpadden announced that … son, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by a white police officer. Brown was black and unarmed, and his death ignited … seemed surer; the campaign, she said, would be part of her larger advocacy for laws and policies to protect …
Russian Fallout
… In September, the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit in federal … million in damages from Harvard University, one tenured professor, and three other individuals who, the complaint …
Place-Making with Plastic Tubes
… To the passing observer , Autumn (...Nothing Personal) is merely a cluster of tall plastic yellow and orange tubes mounted on simple wooden benches in the middle of Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre. Artist Teresita Fern á …