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Harvard Committee Recommends Banning Clubs
… banning all students from joining any final club or other unrecognized social organization. The policy, modeled on that of peer institutions such as Williams and Bowdoin, would … take effect beginning with students entering in the fall of 2018, and would lead to the abolition of such …
Life in Counterpoint
… Newmark ’74 composes his own music by hand, resisting the increasingly common tendency to rely on computer programs that ease the process of editing. “The hardest thing is to get started,” he says. “Every work starts with some sort of germ: a chord, a chord progression, a motive, or even a …
Issue: May-June 2009
Why Sex Succeeds
… why so many organisms go to so much trouble to create offspring, when asexual reproduction fulfills the evolutionary goal of passing on as many genes as … so positive attributes spread. Desai’s team was also surprised by a striking new finding: a number of very harmful …
Issue: July-August 2016
Changing Places, Changing Times
… From 1874 until 1925, Harvard undergraduates took meals in the vastness of Memorial Hall's Alumni Hall. When they departed, the place was empty most of the time; students registered, gave blood, and took …
Decoding Life’s Mysteries
… mysteries appear at least knowable, if still undeciphered. The mapping of the human genome and the genomes of other organisms, such as the fruit fly and the roundworm, …
Business Curriculum Changes
… dean Nitin Nohria and senior associate dean and chair of the M.B.A. program Youngme E. Moon have signaled two changes … to enroll. The first-year “required curriculum” —a sequence of common foundational courses in management, taken by all …
Pickles and Grits
… The food at Tupelo is wonderful, my dinner companions and I … Southern restaurant in these confines) the colorful murals of New Orleans, the copper-topped tables, and the homely … and you may have to huddle by the bar with a beer or glass of wine to wait for a table. Tupelo may be a happier place …
Issue: January-February 2010
An "Understandable" Complication
… is going to get worse before it gets better." Surgeons themselves often acknowledge the bloodiness of their work: an art that begins with the rending of flesh …
Probing Poverty and Health
… The March 21 issue of the New Yorker has a profile of Nadine Burke, M.P.H. ’02, …
Roosevelt History Month
… as "Roosevelt History Month." Such major institutions as the Library of Congress, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, the Woodrow Wilson … special events or exhibits keyed to the life and work of the nation's thirty-second president. In New York City, a …
Thai Tastes in Watertown
… variety has a slight anise flavor and spicy kick that warms the entire body. It stars in the wide-noodle kee mao and … opened Cha Yen Thai Cookery in 2014. Photograph courtesy of Cha Yen Thai Cookery She also tinkers with traditional … uses puff pastry, baked, not fried, for a lighter mouthful of diced chicken and potato laced with turmeric. Roti is …
Issue: January-February 2021
Once Again, with Feeling
… Brannon Cho, a rising young cellist, dives into the first movement of Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony-Concerto in E Minor, Op. 125. The virtuosic …
Issue: January-February 2019
Illuminations
… The debut of “Beyond Words”—on September 12 at Houghton Library and Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art, and 10 days later at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—represents the …
Issue: September-October 2016
Chapter & Verse
… Orin Tilevitz writes, “One day early in Chem 20, Professor Doering told us that if your experiment was inconsistent with your hypothesis, there must be something wrong with the experiment. … first to identify this borrowing from the first chapter of Indian Summer of a Forsyte , the second part of John …
Issue: May-June 2016
Sports Roundup
… Men’s Soccer The Crimson (12-6-0, 5-2 Ivy), undefeated at home, just … booters fell in the second round to the University of South Florida, number eight. Four players made the first … left in double overtime before falling in the opening round of post-season NCAA play. Freshman Melanie Baskind was named …
Issue: January-February 2009