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Football 2018: Harvard 36, San Diego 14
… 1924, Illinois running back Red Grange had a quarter for the ages against Michigan, scoring touchdowns on runs of 95, 67, 56 and 44 yards—all in the game’s first 12 … Grange-ian, scoring first-quarter touchdowns on runs of 64, 23, and 22 yards. In the fourth quarter, Shampklin …
Executive Education, Innovation Lab, Allston Alterations
… Harvard Business School (HBS) today announced receipt of a $50-million gift to fund a new building on its campus for executive education . At the same time, the University announced that it would … the time, business ethics were suspect but the Tata enterprises stood for "integrity and quality." Having subsequently …
Tiny Brontë, Big Price
… A handwritten magazine created by the young Charlotte Brontë has been sold at auction at … buyer is a museum in Paris. The sale deflates the hopes of the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, England, which … 1.5-by-2.5-inch manuscript in England; it owns four parts of the six-part series (the sixth work is untraced). Harvard …
Character Count
… page 44) had a memorably unsuccessful experience boating—on the Titanic . Barely known is the role that African-American … eponymous library, in his capacity as chief designer in the Office of Horace Trumbauer, the name architect for the project. …
Issue: May-June 2020
All Instincts
… The thought of stealing makes Ben Skinner ’19 smile. On the baseball diamond, speed is his biggest asset. But to … a ball into play and beats any throw to the bag. Skinner is often looking to drive the ball up the middle, out of reach …
Issue: May-June 2019
Festival Feasts
… year's Commencement-time festival rites, may wish to feed themselves and others lavishly. Herewith, a reminder of old-favorite restaurants in close proximity to Harvard … promising newcomer a stroll away. Jody Adams, in charge of the kitchen at Rialto, at the Charles Hotel, One Bennett …
Issue: May-June 2003
Harvard Calendar
… SPECIAL. A memorial gathering with music will be held on September 7 at 7:30 p.m. at Sanders Theatre in remembrance of Naumburg professor of music emerita Luise Vosgerchian , who died in …
Ledecky Fellowship
… The Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellowship … by Jonathan J. Ledecky ’79, M.B.A. ’83, and named in honor of his mother,enables the magazine to appoint two … contribute to harvardmagazine.com, and learn the workings of a magazine through a broad range of other editorial …
Vaccine Delivery System Wins President’s Challenge Grand Prize
… Every year , more than 2.4 million people around the globe die of diseases that could be prevented by vaccines. Now, a cross-disciplinary group of Harvard student entrepreneurs—one from the Business …
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
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
Painting and Numbers
… as writing equations on a blackboard. His unusual avocation—the digital authentication of art—lets him practice math in an intriguing setting. … behind the scenes at a museum,” says the Kemeny Parents professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College. Rockmore uses …
Issue: May-June 2007
Football: Harvard 22, Brown 14
… game against Harvard at Brown Stadium, Brown treated the 13,511 spectators to a fireworks show as part of the university’s 250th anniversary celebration. Actually, … was doubly significant: it was the first Ivy League game of the season, and it was one Harvard could have, and maybe …
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 …
Slavery’s Southern Legacy
… When Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen were assistant professors at the University of Rochester, they got to talking over lunch about politics. …
Issue: May-June 2018