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Harvard Scares Michigan State
… With a stunning 29-11 run in the second half, the Harvard men’s basketball team brought … one was taking them lightly. Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, one of the college game’s top coaches, said he didn’t relish … a roll, using their speed and size to convert an early rash of Harvard turnovers into fast-break points. State’s …
Bistro on a Hill
… The word bistro was coined in France for a small café or … The Beacon Hill Bistro, nestled into the first floor of the boutique Beacon Hill Hotel (12 rooms, one suite) on … the long, narrow dining room with a banquette and a row of tables seats 60. We were lucky enough to dine at the …
Issue: November-December 2009
News and Notices
… Exercises Comings and Goings This spring , Harvard clubs offer varied social and intellectual events, including … below). For more information, contact clubs directly, call the HAA at 617-495-3070 or 800-654-6494, e-mail … or visit www.haa.harvard.edu . On March 5, the Harvard Club of Houston hears Timothy Colton, Feldberg professor of …
Issue: March-April 2009
Door Speak
… dean for undergraduate education Susan Pedersen displays on the door of her Busch Hall 417 office a fortune-cookie fortune. It advises, "Many …
Issue: January-February 2002
Shuttered Behind Bars
… The faces haunt one --eyes gazing back at the lens with a resignation so profound as to have passed beyond caring. These are unusual … in a very vulnerable situation.” That situation is one of incarceration at Cummins Prison Farm in Arkansas; the …
Issue: July-August 2009
Chapter and Verse
… much and you're finished for life." Howard Lewis Fink seeks the author of the statement "One cannot be sincere and seem so." John … about the origins of "Education should be like the moonrise, perceptible not in progress but in result," and "Ten …
Fitness: Body and Mind
… effects on mental acuity and motor ability, says professor of molecular and cellular biology Joshua Sanes , director of the Center for Brain Science . But just how these changes …
Issue: November-December 2010
Institutional Innovators in Teaching and Learning
… Lee S. Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, says that “teaching remains a tiny part of the …
Issue: January-February 2006
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
… Pat Donovan hopes that someone can provide her with the original source of the phrase “…and she wiped the ambassador’s nose”; the … one day. Dorothy Richardson requests an identification of the poetic fragment with which William Dunlap closes his …
Issue: January-February 2009
Harvard Great Performances: Andrew Fischer ’16
… Saturday would have been the 137th edition of The Game. But for the first time since the wartime year of 1944, it will not be played. (Harvard trails, 60-68-8.) …
Chasing Bogeys
… Few golf books have emerged from the unlikely golfing haven of Duluth, Minnesota; in fact, A Beautiful Friendship: The Joy of Chasing Bogey Golf (Calyx Press Duluth, …
Issue: May-June 2009
Taxing Matters
… The federal tax legislation being considered in Congress as … advanced without benefit of hearings—contains a lot of surprises for higher education. At least one version of the …
Issue: January-February 2018
Solar Sculptor
… On the front lawn of the U.S. vice-presidential residence in Washington, D.C., … from the nation’s most precise clock, sits another type of timepiece. Its measurements are approximate, its hour …
Issue: May-June 2008