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Chapter & Verse
… Douglas R. Bunker asks if anyone can offer a citable source for a definition of power, attributed to Stalin, as the “strategic or intelligent use of cruelty.” “Union” …
Issue: March-April 2017
Spring, Fevered
… Amid the Divest Harvard protestors’ late-April blockade of the president’s office (see “The Divestment Debate,” ) and the debate about …
Issue: July-August 2014
Elliot Hammerman
… When Elliot Hammerman applied in 1986 for the job as machinist at the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory, he … be fed up with the process. During his fifth interview, one of his scientific interrogators asked him, "Now, Mr. … is used mostly to treat inoperable cancers, usually of the brain or eye. In 1995 the facility gave 3400 …
Getting Greener
… its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 percent during the past decade, the Office for Sustainability announced in early December. The … in square footage and an increase in energy intensity of existing space. (New laboratories, which use 46 percent …
Issue: January-February 2017
Fogg Reopening Deferred to 2014
… The Harvard Art Museums disclosed today, following a review … the renovated Fogg Art Museum building (the future home of the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler museum …
Yet More Expansion?
… to shake with passers-by." Has Harvard staked out another new campus? On February 2, Christopher S. Johnson ’64, a contributing editor of this magazine, emerged from the four-story brick building … young ladies standing on the sidewalk. One clutched a bunch of flowers. Their friend had broken her tailbone, they …
Issue: May-June 2006
A Season-Ending Sweep
… Five years ago , on the final evening of the 2011 season, the Harvard men’s … just that, dismissing the Tigers 79-67 and beginning a run of five consecutive conference crowns. When Harvard played …
Infrared: A Renewable Energy Source?
… Physicists at THE Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have conceived of a device that could produce energy from the infrared …
Harvard Defeats Dartmouth
… Last November, the Harvard men’s basketball team travelled more than 7,000 … suggested that the trip contributed to a “perfect storm” of challenges to start the season. “That trip to China was a … possession or two each game, typically in an effort to surprise opponents. This year, the Crimson has gone so far as to …
Football 2019: Harvard 62, Howard 17
… Newton, announced that he would be placing his name in the NCAA transfer portal and thus would be unavailable for the rest of the season. Next, a group of players and their parents charged the first-year Bison …
A Long Road
… in town to visit his daughter. He dropped by practice as the Crimson prepared for a trip to Italy to play several … team’s then faculty fellow and a former Kentucky secretary of state, in a phone interview last week. Still, there was … Crimson took the floor at Kentucky’s famed Rupp Arena. (As of now, there are no plans for a reciprocal trip to the …
His Own “Decisive Moment”
… 9, 1969, during its occupation by student protesters. Four of his almost elegiac black-and-white photographs from that day, of the protesters meeting in a sunlit hall and of the violent …
Issue: March-April 2015
Jabber and Bael
… In simpler times, Southerners ate Krispy Kremes and New Englanders ate Dunkin' … vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation—the elements of dialect—can reveal someone's regional background. … "Regional dialects are alive and well," says associate professor of linguistics Bert Vaux, who has created an on-line …
Issue: March-April 2003
About Harvard Magazine
… and is published today by a separately incorporated nonprofit affiliate of Harvard University. As an independent … with readers’ interests foremost in mind. That is to say, the magazine is not published with the aim of promoting … , like its ancestral Bulletin , is a nonprofit enterprise incorporated under Massachusetts law and directed by …
Virtually Perfect
… this year thanks to COVID-19. But even though we can’t gather, shop, or dine in person doesn’t mean we can’t keep … the Clutter Guru . The Waltham-based personal organizer now offers a free 30-minute consult and half off remote organizing packages through the end of July. Just …
Issue: July-August 2020