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Chapter & Verse
… John Endicott asks whether Le Corbusier did in fact declare that “Democracy is a … narrator is writing to the woman he loves toward the close of the year. One line, she recalls, runs something like: “My … a June 1999 column by Ellen Goodman containing a variant of the sentence, and Henry Godfrey unearthed a version …
Issue: May-June 2018
Stolen Censer Returns to Harvard Art Museums
… played out “like a movie,” according to Homeland Security officials, an eighteenth-century Chinese jadeite tripod … Fogg Art Museum in 1979 has been formally returned to the University. At a ceremony at Hoffman Laboratories today, representatives from U.S. …
Harvard Campaign Reaches $5 Billion
… The University has announced that The Harvard Campaign had recorded $5 billion in gifts and pledges as of December 31: nearly 77 percent of the $6.5-billion goal … , the end of the fiscal year. The gains since are not a surprise: they include the $350-million gift to the Harvard …
An Honorand’s Passing
… Harvard’s Gleason professor of fine arts emeritus and Cabot founding director of the Harvard University Art Museums emeritus Seymour Slive …
Harvard Football Great Performances: Barry Wood ’32
… in November —a day which will live in infamy, to employ the phrase made immortal by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, A.B. … we would pick up the Crimson football story with the kickoff of the 147th season this Saturday against Georgetown. … without games, football correspondent Dick Friedman reprises past Crimson glories: epic plays, players, and …
A President with a Purpose
… As 2007 began, and several aspirants prepared to announce their candidacies for our nation’s highest office, Americans paused to celebrate the life of Gerald R. Ford, our only chief executive never elected …
Issue: March-April 2007
Harvard Great Performances: Endicott Peabody ’42
… in an ordinary time , this Saturday would have seen Game 3 of the 2020 Harvard football season, with ancient and honorable … without games, football correspondent Dick Friedman reprises past Crimson glories: epic plays, players, and …
Old Quincy, Renewed
… chairs, and a brand-new kitchen have transformed the basement, once used for storage, into a community room … during clement weather. Down the corridor there is a state-of-the art videoconferencing classroom with smart boards; on … the first undergraduate residence completely redone. It comprises 165,000 square feet, and is scheduled to close for …
Painting across Cultures
… without skill gives us modern art." If Stoppard is right, then Julia Chen Davidson '05 presents a problem. Her works … in ways that place Davidson at a far remove from trends of the current art world. "I'm not on the cutting edge of what people are doing today," she says. "People are …
Issue: March-April 2005
Badminton’s Lightning Charm
… year, Boris Becker defeated Kevin Curran in four sets for the Wimbledon tennis championship, and, amid far less fanfare, Han Jian of China bested Denmark’s Morten Frost in three sets of badminton at Calgary. The Wimbledon match lasted three …
Issue: March-April 2010
How Acupuncture Relieves Inflammation
… Inflammation can both heal and harm. A core component of the immune system, it’s essential for recovering from an … illnesses. “You need to fine-tune inflammation,” says professor of neurobiology Qiufu Ma, of Harvard Medical School …
Issue: January-February 2021
An “Urban Farmhouse”
… Billed as an “urban farmhouse” that pays homage to the chef’s family farm, Puritan & Company is the newest member of the Inman Square restaurant scene. Two long tables for group dining set the tone in the center of the open room; we sat at a two-person table near the …
Issue: July-August 2013
Unmarried, Together
… Growing up, Brian Newmark ’72 looked at his parents and their married friends and thought “something was missing.” … serious, long-term adult relationships and the raising of his now 22-year-old daughter. He and his current partner, … but still have no plans to tie the knot. “One of the nice things about getting old is that it is very …
Issue: March-April 2009
Peter Thiel on Why Monopolies Matter
… In conversations about the economy, monopoly can often be a dirty word. But … Peter Thiel shared his far more iconoclastic view of the business world at an event at Harvard Business School …
Going Once…Going Twice…Sold!
… Courtesy of Thomaston Auction House A miniature Russian kvosh which … House this summer It’s a summer evening, and a crowd has gathered at the Sandwich Auction House for the weekly Wednesday sale. The windows and doors of the shed building are open wide to catch whatever fresh …
Issue: September-October 2008