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Football: Harvard 14, Dartmouth 13
… end last Friday night at Harvard Stadium, a reporter from The Harvard Crimson turned to her colleagues in the press … in Harvard’s 142-season football history. In a showdown of Ivy unbeatens, the Crimson shrugged off an epic goal-line stand, scored two touchdowns in the …
Injury and Beauty
… Scarry is teaching two courses: a purely literary class on the three Brontë sisters, and “The Problem of Consent,” drawing examples from literature, medicine, … she says, her work has focused on two areas: “the problem of injury, and why it is so hard to get people to care about …
Issue: March-April 2014
Two Tests Passed
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Heading into Saturday’s home game against the University of Massachusetts, the Harvard men’s basketball team had won 52 of the last 55 contests it had hosted at Lavietes Pavilion. …
Old Lampooner
… Thackeray ranked second only to Charles Dickens in the English literary pantheon. Now he is mostly ignored except as the author of the novel Vanity Fair, in which he skewered large segments of British society with cheerful humor and hatched an …
Issue: May-June 2014
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
Heloise and Abelard at Harvard
… Tales of thwarted love frequently do well on stage, and the story of Heloise and Abelard is no exception. This dramatic tale, …
Figuring It Out
… The first two years of college were a time of adjustments for John Fish ’21. Like any other student, he … a bit of a persona on camera. People here were kind of surprised when we met because I was a completely different …
Issue: September-October 2019
Harvard Portrait: Meg Rithmire
… Assistant professor of business administration Meg Rithmire, Ph.D. ’11, spent the morning of October 5 shepherding Chinese scholars around …
Issue: November-December 2012
Brevia
… J. Clinton Former U.S. president Bill Clinton will be the class of 2007’s Class Day speaker on June 6. Of late he has worked on problems such as HIV/AIDS through …
Issue: May-June 2007
Most Harvard Staff Will Be Remote through June 30
… Most of Harvard’s faculty and staff members will continue working … employees today. While Harvard has successfully limited the spread of COVID-19 on campus, Lapp wrote, “cases are rising in the …
Erin O'Shea
… She and her husband, Douglas Jeffery, play a lot of bridge, as partners, with only a little bickering.) O’Shea has done much well. The professor of molecular and cellular biology, director of the …
Issue: January-February 2007
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
University People
… National Academicians David Laibson Courtesy of David Laibson In a year in which 40 percent of its newly elected members were women, a new high, the National Academy of Sciences announced 100 new members, …
Issue: July-August 2019
For Radcliffe: A "Founding Dean"
… Neil L. Rudenstine. Photo by Marc Halevi/Harvard News Office From the moment Harvard University and Radcliffe College … would merge and form the Radcliffe Institute, the identity of the institute's first dean became a paramount …
A "Sick" Democracy
… "Freedom. America. The two words go together like a drum and its drumbeat," … times become separated from one another. The Cowles professor of sociology delivered the annual David Riesman Lecture to …