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Chapter & Verse
… Burton Caine asks who said, “If the result is absurd, it impeaches the logic upon which it … Judith Stix hopes to learn the title and author of a children’s book that ends, she recalls: “And that’s how … McGinnis wonders if anyone has traced the original source of a remark attributed to Mark Hanna: “There are two things …
Issue: January-February 2012
“Seeking Strange Flowers”
… As tales of adventure go , his had it all: treacherous passages … tribal princes; and religious rituals virtually unknown to the outside world. In 1924, Harvard dispatched Joseph … hunt through China’s southwestern provinces—the Wild West of their day. But gold and silver weren’t his mandate: Rock, …
Issue: September-October 2015
Sports in Brief
… through what a Boston Globe headline deemed a “season of redemption,” the men’s hockey team in late March, for the first time in … 1993, close out the regular season with an unbroken string of wins and a share of the conference title, and then …
Issue: May-June 2017
Complicated Choices: Preventing HIV's Spread
… What if women could take a pill to decrease the chance of infection during sex with an HIV-positive … to the virus—became possible recently with the development of drugs that are more effective and have fewer severe side …
Delicious Science
… Joan and Jordi Roca know how to put on a show, even when their stage is a Harvard lecture hall. As their audience on … that diners could actually smoke, Jordi poured a container of liquid nitrogen into a metal bowl. As the cauldron … said Jordi, who is the chef/owner, along with his brother, of el Celler de Can Roca , currently ranked the number-two …
Harvard Art Allies
… Hammond ’25, Litt.D. ’94 In 1943, Hammond—later Pope professor of the Latin language and literature and unofficial Harvard …
Issue: January-February 2010
Men’s Basketball Splits Ivy Road Games
… Harvard men’s basketball players and staff lingered on the floor at Levien Gymnasium, seemingly shell-shocked over … shoulder the load singlehandedly. For the first 30 minutes of Saturday night’s game against Cornell in Ithaca, it … Big Red hit seven three-pointers in the first eight minutes of the contest to jump out to a 27-10 lead—an advantage that …
Growing Pains
… In January, the men’s basketball team fell 62-56 against Vermont—the … “Our record,” added Chris Lewis ’20, “doesn’t show how good of a team we are.” This underscored the team’s dilemma. On paper, they are studs: Towns and Lewis are two of four sophomores who were ranked among the top 100 …
Issue: March-April 2018
Curious Colors
… necktie is crimson emblazoned with one’s class numerals and often the shield of the University. On the lookout for—and spotting—deviant …
Issue: November-December 2009
Overseer and Director Candidates
… five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots, mailed out by … at the HAA’s annual meeting on May 25, on the afternoon of Commencement day. All holders of Harvard degrees, except …
Issue: May-June 2017
Crafting Color
… Among natural objects , blue is perhaps the rarest color. Chlorophyll in plants creates their … create the brilliant purples, reds, oranges, and yellows of fall. Cave paintings from prehistoric times show browns … feathers, for instance, or a morpho butterfly’s wing—it is often created through unusual means. Most colors in nature …
Issue: July-August 2014
Students in Africa
… With this issue, Harvard Magazine brings you the stories of 10 student projects in Africa . Visit an … HIV prevention and sexual health in Tanzania, the subject of research by Rashmi Jasrasaria ’10. In Ghana, learn how a …
Issue: November-December 2009
Football 2017: Harvard 3, Yale 24
… Not our day. Not our year. On Saturday at the Yale Bowl, Harvard went to extreme lengths to prove that you can’t win if you can’t score. In the 134th playing of The Game, the Crimson—partly undone by two slippery … finish. The triumph also allowed the Bulldogs to hold off Dartmouth and surprising Columbia and bring to New Haven …
Memorial Church’s Modest Makeover
… and displacing Morning Prayers and Sunday services during the fall semester—to Holden Chapel and the Radcliffe … Institute campus, respectively. With the resumption of academic activity in the new semester, the church website happily bannered the news of “Reopening Jan. 23!”—and indeed, Morning Prayers were …
Events
… SPECIAL . On February 24 at Sanders Theatre, the Harvard Foundation presents the annual Cultural … Rhythms performing arts festival, a day-long celebration of diversity at the University. Call (617) 496-2222 for … Le Corbusier's Ronchamp. The Harvard University Art Museums offer a variety of exhibits this winter. Appearing at the …