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Harvard Great Performances: Terence Patterson ’00
… Had events not dictated otherwise, this week the Crimson football team would have … Saturdays this fall will rebroadcast classic Harvard games of the Coach Tim Murphy era .) Our Great Performer this week … without games, football correspondent Dick Friedman reprises past Crimson glories: epic plays, players, and …
Lighting Up Mount Auburn Street
… As the Harvard Art Museums announced their long awaited re-opening with a series of community celebrations —catered events, held beneath the cathedral heights of the glass ceiling designed by Renzo Piano—another Harvard …
Issue: January-February 2015
Under (Green) Wraps
… Nominally, Harvard’s official color is crimson. But this summer, a lot of the place went green—with numerous sites swaddled in or … huge first stage of developing the commercial “enterprise research campus” in Allston , the hard hats’ good times …
Issue: September-October 2019
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
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 …
"You Foolish Parents..."
… Parents could find guidance about what sort of allowance to provide their Harvard-bound children in the "Palmer Pamphlet." Professor George H. Palmer surveyed the class of 1887 by …
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
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
Throw Your Fastball
… As I look back on the path that’s taken me from adolescence to middle age, my overwhelming sense is that the processes of maturation and personal growth have largely been gradual, … back over the decades do I see just how different the “me” of today is from his 18-year-old counterpart. Only once in …
Issue: September-October 2019
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 …
Tiny Brontës
… At top is a page , actual size, of a miniature manuscript book, written with a sharp eye and a steady hand and stitched together in 1830 by Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855). The page is … so that ordinary people may read it. It is the beginning of a novelette Brontë called “An interesting passage in the …
Issue: January-February 2012
An Education Agenda
… Universities have plenty of challenges this fall: accommodating some students safely, … faculty and staff members, and finding ways to stanch the red ink. In his new book, Higher Expectations: Can … presidencies, recalls readers’ attention to the task of educating undergraduates effectively. Despite some …
Issue: September-October 2020
Four Seniors Named Rhodes Scholars
… Four Harvard College seniors are among the 32 newly minted Rhodes Scholars : Samuel Galler, of Boulder, Colorado, and Quincy House, who is concentrating … earning his A.M. in East Asian studies) Spencer Lenfield, of Paw Paw, Michigan, and Eliot House, a history and …
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
Note to Readers
… Lydialyle Gibson joined the masthead last autumn as a writer and editor. One of the features she wrote for the University of Chicago’s magazine, her prior perch, has justly been …
Issue: September-October 2016