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Dancing School
… The children in The Dancing Lesson, Pt. 2 are learning the … to point at a wide angle, in genteel fashion, as do those of the dancers and the master himself. The hand-colored … London’s social-dancing scene in 1824. The etching is part of the vast collections in opera, ballet, operetta, musical …
Issue: March-April 2010
Sports Wrap
… Lightweight Rowing The men’s varsity eight won the national championship at the … by just under a second and setting a course record of 5:33.059. The lights’ first national title since 2003 … behind Stanford and Bucknell, at the IRA regatta. Softball Harvard (35-15, 17-3 Ivy) repeated as Ivy champions, …
Issue: July-August 2012
Women’s Rugby Becomes Harvard’s 42nd Varsity Sport
… sport —will become a varsity sports program, beginning in the 2013-2014 academic year. According to the University announcement, that will increase the number of Harvard varsity sports for women to 21 and the total number of varsity programs to 42—in both cases, the largest number …
“Unconditionally Relentless”
… women’s basketball head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith gave each of her players a bracelet. These were not merely mementos; the significance lay in the … reminder, about the mindset she expected from them. In six of the last eight seasons, the Harvard women have received …
Twice, with Alacrity
… I am,” she says. “So people think I’m five-one.” Whatever the reason, it’s a mistake to underestimate her stature, … fall, the Ivy League unanimously named Baskind its Player of the Year in women’s soccer after a season in which the … Baskind is a full-blooded athlete. Her Quincy House suite of 12 roommates includes nine varsity players plus an …
Issue: March-April 2012
Christine Lagarde to Speak at Kennedy School
… The first woman to lead the International Monetary Fund … "It is not a crisis that will be resolved by one group of countries taking action. It is going to be hopefully … resolved by all countries, all regions, all categories of countries actually taking some action." A noted antitrust …
New England’s Forest Primeval
… What did the New England landscape look like before European … that this is a mistake, and that in the specific case of New England, “land managers seeking to emulate … pasture are desired (for example, to retain modern patterns of species diversity), colonial-era technologies for keeping …
What’s Up Comes Down, and Vice Versa
… secretary Stephanie Pollack, J.D. ’85, announced that the state will rebuild the Massachusetts Turnpike at ground … the existing elevated viaduct, which is currently in need of repair. The decision was the outcome of months of … Landing North, the parcel closest to its planned Enterprise Research Campus . The second, involving the purchase of …
Disrupting Harvard?
… Could the new learning technologies , combined with new higher … on the other hand, fits squarely into a description of a luxury service whose value is derived from the fact that it only serves a limited few. But the process of disruptive innovation has spelled the decline of many …
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Issue: July-August 2011
Six Harvard Students Win Rhodes Scholarships
… The Rhodes Trust announced on November 23 that six … Broad Labs, as well as at the Center for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa. She plans to earn a master’s of science in applied statistics. Concentrating in …
Eating Greener
… It started with apples. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Harvard University Dining … process as it sought to become more sustainable. What kinds of foods could it buy locally? Apples worked. “It was sort … produced just a few miles away—while supporting local enterprises and reducing the financial and energy costs of …
Issue: July-August 2019
Chapter and Verse
… are you to tell me I am wrong? I am not wrong.” He was told the author was D.H. Lawrence, but has not been able to … 2009). James Finkelstein sent an earlier statement of the principle, from William Harvey’s Letter to John … her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there …
Issue: May-June 2010
Allston Land Company Leads Harvard Commercial Development
… The University today unveiled a nascent Allston land company … plans for commercial development on its landholdings south of Harvard Business School. The new entity separates development within the 36-acre enterprise research campus (ERC) from future academic growth …
Harvard Medical School Dean Flier to Step Down
… Jeffrey S. Flier , dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) since 2007 , today announced … on July 31. Flier, an endocrinologist who specialized in the causes of obesity and diabetes, wrote a brief note to his …
Going Global, Gradually
… The mid October announcement of Harvard Global Institute … itself as the world’s largest commercial real-estate enterprise (among other lines of business). (See the company … research program, or region; cross-disciplinary work arises only by chance. For the most complex problems that …