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Chapter and Verse
… Jessica Pierce asks whether anyone can identify the origin of the expression “to … an animal.” More queries from the archive: A description of nationalism as “the religion of an extremely high …
Issue: July-August 2011
An Unpredictable Path to Student Unionization
… Harvard has filed an objection to the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) tentative … legal hearings, much later, or not at all. In April, the officer hearing the case ruled that Harvard had excluded … has argued throughout the case that Harvard’s exclusion of some eligible voters from the voter list created …
Men’s Basketball Splits Ivy Home Games
… , Agunwa Okolie, and Patrick Steeves have played in some of the biggest games in Harvard men’s basketball history: the … first victory in the NCAA tournament (a 68-62 upset of New Mexico in 2013), the near-upset of Michigan State in …
Frank and Samberg Headline Harvard College Class Day 2012
… For the first time, not one, but two Class Day speakers … exercises going by peppering the audience with a variety of witticisms and tongue-in-cheek advice. ( Watch a video of … receiving an honorary degree here today…” only to feign surprise that no such honor was in the offing. In consternation, …
Football: Harvard 38, Penn 30
… The take-away message from this one is that football is a 60-minute game. In the first 35 minutes of Saturday’s Stadium thriller, Harvard jumped off to a stunning 38-0 lead over Pennsylvania. Not for 32 …
A Perfect Storm
… Princeton senior Steven Cook called it a “perfect miss.” To the Harvard men’s basketball team, it was more of a perfect storm. With seven ticks remaining in Saturday’s … took two dribbles before launching the shot. To the relief of Crimson fans, the ball sprang off the rim to the right, …
Squash Teams Quash Trinity, Yale, Win Ivies
… In midseason, the Harvard men’s squash team was ranked second in the … Consider the historic clash at Hartford, Connecticut, home of Trinity College. Until Tuesday, February 4, the Trinity … men since 1998. They did it by sweeping the top five (of nine) matches as well as the bottom two. Harvard’s top …
Celebrating Harvard Square’s Newest Performance Space
… performance venue, Arrow Street Arts (ASA), celebrates its official opening on April 1 with Boston Opera Collective's production of La Tragédie de Carmen (April 4-7). ASA is a combined black box theater and street-side studio that replaced the American …
Issue: March-April 2024
Harpsichords Extraordinaire
… was building harpsichords. Pianos ruled, and that was that. Then in 1905, the French-born musician and instrument maker … makers Chickering & Sons. Dolmetsch was “the man in front of the ‘early-music’ revival in the United States,” says Mariana Quinn, manager of Piano Technical Services (PTS) at Harvard. Early-music …
Issue: July-August 2014
Curricular Conundrums
… During the past decade, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has … for undergraduates’ course of study. At present, Gen Ed comprises eight courses intended to lift young scholars’ eyes …
Issue: March-April 2016
Is McCain a Double-Edged Sword for Democrats?
… like presidential candidate John McCain too much for their own good. He rails against Republicans for rallying … each party is supposed to nominate a person whom members of the other party will detest. Ordinarily this is not a … pains him. Noting that McCain falls well to the left of his party on many issues, Kinsley asks, "For heaven's …
Back-to-School Bookshelf
… in his career as a leader in American higher education. The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges (Princeton, $29.95) is the most recent in his long series of distinguished analyses: critiques that credit the value of higher education by treating its flaws seriously and …
Issue: September-October 2017
Tom Reiss ’86 Wins Pulitzer for Biography
… For telling the long-overlooked story of Alex Dumas, the French … Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Crown) “a compelling story of a forgotten …
Harvard Sustainability Report Updated
… The University has released an updated sustainability report … goals and detailing a strategy. (The plan, officials said, aligned Harvard’s decentralized campus … measures implemented.) According to the report, 98 percent of Harvard’s emissions are associated with heating and …
“Cleat” Hands Off
… Among many other accomplishments, John T. Bethell, this magazine’s editor from 1966 through 1994, covered a lot of Harvard football games. He began writing, beautifully, … about the sport he loves, in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin of September 20, 1971, reporting on new coach Joe Restic’s …
Issue: September-October 2014