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… 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 …
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 …
Wrapping Up Harvard’s Winter Sports
… an unusual scene on March 13: a Yale-Princeton battle for the Ivy League basketball title—at Harvard’s Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson men had lost to the host of the Ivy League tournament in their last two … ’24. With that loss, the 40-year Harvard coaching career of Kathy Delaney-Smith concluded (see sidebar for in-depth …
Issue: May-June 2022
Returning to Celebrate, and Eat
… Though Commencement Week has been postponed, there will come a time when alumni can once again gather on … relaxed atmosphere puts you immediately at ease. Pictures of the two owners and their young daughter—the restaurant’s … walls, and the warmly lit 28-seat dining room with a view of the kitchen makes it feel as though you’re being treated …
Issue: May-June 2020
Vigorous Immortality
… One of the best descriptions of the promise of endowments is just two words long: vigorous …
Issue: November-December 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
Football 2019: San Diego 31, Harvard 23
… A Princeton man once remarked, “In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.” For a venerable Harvard man, the real dark night of the soul came at three o’clock last Saturday afternoon, …
Complicated Relationship
… Freshman women officially joined their male counterparts in Harvard Yard's dormitories in … many assumed the anniversary hoopla commemorated the start of coeducation at Harvard itself. "Ironically," writes …
Issue: May-June 2004
Do-Overs
… Last April 27, toward the end of an academic year when protests about racial … his own, Yale president Peter Salovey announced, “The name of Calhoun College will remain.” His letter to the community …
Issue: November-December 2016
Justice, On Line
… and Fellows Harvard College ”Justice,” from Sanders Theatre to you: Sandel and engaged students (below) Starting … September 19, alumni around the world can log onto one of the College’s most popular courses: Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice,” with Bass professor of government Michael J. Sandel. This unprecedented, …
Issue: September-October 2007
Harvard Discloses Leaders’ Compensation
… The University today released its tax return for nonprofit … the compensation paid to the president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company (HMC, which is …
Seven Harvardians Win MacArthur "Genius" Awards in 2018
… Seven Harvard alumni have been named fellows by the MacArthur Foundation this year. The fellowship, commonly … communities and society.” The Harvard-affiliated recipients of the $625,000 “no strings attached” grant are as follows: … communicate the nuances, ambiguities, and multiple meanings of texts in musical form.” Among his early works is Second …
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
Spring Sports
… Crew The men’s heavyweight crew won all its races until finishing … less than a second behind Yale at the Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges sprints, placing third in the … with Princeton—their first win since 2006, the last year of a four-title run. Senior Beier Ko was the unanimous …
Issue: July-August 2009
Hoop Hopes
… During the past four years, the Harvard men’s basketball team has been a model of consistency: four straight Ivy League championships, … tournament, and opening-round victories in the last two of those appearances. But this year’s squad has been harder …
Issue: January-February 2015