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Football: Harvard 51, Rhode Island 21
… As the 143rd season of Harvard football kicked off last Friday night at the Stadium, it took two minutes and eight seconds for the …
Harvard Must Hold New Graduate-Student Union Election
… The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has completed a … in favor. This outcome has been widely expected, because of an earlier NLRB decision ordering a new election if the … will need to hold a new election. Last spring, after months of protracted hearings and disputes over voter eligibility …
Aloian Award Winners 2014
… Seniors Rob Gunzenhauser ’15, of Adams House, and Mathilde Montpetit ’15, of Winthrop House, received the Harvard Alumni Association’s (HAA) annual David ’49 and …
Issue: September-October 2014
Extracurriculars
… SEASONAL The Farmers’ Market at Harvard www.dining.harvard.edu/ … This outdoor market, which runs through October, offers fresh produce, baked goods, jams, herbs, chocolates, … (rain or shine) Outside the Science Center, at the corner of Oxford and Kirkland streets In Allston: • Fridays, 3-7 …
Issue: September-October 2009
Tiny Brontë, Big Price
… A handwritten magazine created by the young Charlotte Brontë has been sold at auction at … buyer is a museum in Paris. The sale deflates the hopes of the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, England, which … 1.5-by-2.5-inch manuscript in England; it owns four parts of the six-part series (the sixth work is untraced). Harvard …
edX-IMF Online Link
… edX—the Harvard-MIT online learning venture for higher-education … and finance. The IMF will not become a partner of edX; this application represents an extension of edX’s technology (which is being made available as …
An African Breadbasket?
… Reports of famine in Africa are so common that it becomes easy to assume the continent will always face food shortages. But Calestous Juma, professor of the practice of international development at the …
Issue: March-April 2011
A Book by Its Cover
… When we arrived at Houghton Library to study its collection of embroidered book bindings, we were prepared for a bit of a treasure hunt. Such bindings have not received much … advance information. Embroidered book bindings reached the peak of their popularity between 1550 and 1650. Made …
Christy Gordon Baty , Erin Harvey Moody
Issue: September-October 2017
A Partial Success
… his team up by two, Quakers senior Darnell Foreman caught the ball beyond the top of the key. He dribbled into the lane, drawing Harvard … (15-12 overall, 10-2 Ivy) heading into the final weekend of Ivy play. In the past, this loss would have imperiled the …
Harvard, Heeled
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report One day in the … 1980s , Harvard men’s basketball coach Frank McLaughlin got off the phone with legendary University of North Carolina coach Dean Smith, and could not have been …
Harvard Law Offers Pre-matriculation Material Free Nationwide
… Amid wide concern driven by the COVID-19 pandemic (Is it safe to attend?) and recession … plummet this fall, Harvard Law School (HLS) has decided to offer Zero-L—its online, pre-matriculation orientation to … beginning July 1. This “on-ramp” to the unique features of legal reasoning, writing, and pedagogy ( reported in …
Harvard Calendar
… SPECIAL. A memorial gathering with music will be held on September 7 at 7:30 p.m. at Sanders Theatre in remembrance of Naumburg professor of music emerita Luise Vosgerchian , who died in …
Cranes Crescendo
… The already torrid pace of construction around campus is about to intensify. The renovation and expansion of Winthrop House, the largest undergraduate-residence …
Issue: May-June 2017
Festival Feasts
… year's Commencement-time festival rites, may wish to feed themselves and others lavishly. Herewith, a reminder of old-favorite restaurants in close proximity to Harvard … promising newcomer a stroll away. Jody Adams, in charge of the kitchen at Rialto, at the Charles Hotel, One Bennett …
Issue: May-June 2003
A Student Abroad in Buenos Aires
… August, inflation pushed prices up more than 20 percent. On the last day of July, Argentina entered default as part of a drawn-out … Barolo towered above the other buildings, and I was surprised to see so much beautiful architecture preserved from …