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Alumni Gifts
… The University had received 77,000 gifts as of May 24, … the HAA’s annual meeting. The Harvard and Radcliffe classes of 1961 not only had the largest attendance of a fiftieth …
Issue: July-August 2011
Historic-ish Holidays
… The colder months might be the ideal time to visit Old … bring early American history “to life,” yet the crowd of visitors has thinned. What’s more, Thanksgiving is … Michael Arnum. Visitors can watch preparations for feasts of turkey, and meat or squash pies. Two new exhibits are …
Issue: November-December 2017
Professor Holdren to Be Nominated as White House Science Adviser
… John P. Holdren, Heinz professor of environmental policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is to …
Strings Prodigy
… Jackiw ’07 made his first appearance in London, playing the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra … back in 2000, there he was, his picture on the front page of the Times. The review inside compared Jackiw to the … although Jackiw was only 14, he was already a seasoned professional. Jackiw (jack- eev ) appears headed toward the …
Issue: July-August 2007
Beauty, Bounty, Brio, Buoyancy
… Heaney created a true legacy for Harvard’s commemoration of its 350th birthday with his “Villanelle for an Anniversary” (“A spirit moves, John Harvard walks the yard/The books stand open and the gates unbarred.”). … Gund Hall, “united by a concatenation of ladders which comprise a kind of landlubber’s rigging,” strikes Heaney as a …
Issue: September-October 2011
Saltcellar as Symbol
… chooses a different metaphor: "Throughout history, the offer of salt has been regarded as the offer of hospitality," its …
Chapter & Verse
… asks if anyone can provide definitive attribution for the assertion, “From the music they love, you shall know the texture of men’s souls.” That line, he writes, is quoted in the 1949 … played by Trevor Howard states, “I copied it out a book of Galsworthy’s to impress you.” “a bad 15 minutes at the …
Issue: March-April 2016
Football 2018: Harvard 31, Brown 17
… THERE IS no substitute for good substitutes. On Friday night … still hobbled by injury, Harvard employed a triumvirate of sophomores who ran over, around, and through Brown. The … without nail-biting—was a 31-17 victory over a gritty pack of Bears in the Ivy League opener for both teams. The result …
Harvard at Fenway, 100 Years Later
… Few realize that the first baseball game ever played at Fenway Park was … Fenway is now celebrating its centennial with a season of special events, and the story of that first game —a 2-0 win for the Red Sox, the game …
Men’s Basketball Rebounds
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report The men’s basketball team arrived at the T.D. Garden (home of the NBA’s Boston Celtics) for their matchup against Holy … that several. It began with what Amaker described as series of “spirited” practices this week. When asked to elaborate …
Football: Harvard 31, Yale 24
… Invariably, it seems to come down to this: the players of one ancient rival driving down the field, … seeking the tying or even winning points; the players of the other just as desperately trying to hold them off; …
Make That a Rhodes Sextet
… have won 2012 Rhodes Scholarships for two to three years of study at Oxford University, joining the four American members of the College class of 2012 whose … a choral society of over 150 members; as Director of Enterprise for the Harvard African Business and Investment Club …
Journalists Tim Noah and E. J. Dionne Jr. Win Hillman Prizes
… The Sidney Hillman Foundation , which confers annual prizes … its 2011 prize for magazine journalism to Tim Noah '80, of Slate , for a 10-part series on income inequality titled … "The Great Divergence." Noah was an Undergraduate Fellow of Harvard Magazine . Separately, Washington Post columnist …
Homing In on Harvard
… afternoon, I walked past a street musician playing The Beatles’ hit “Here Comes the Sun.” I remember reckoning … eye-pleasing during the warm season than in other times of the year. But being on campus this summer has been … took it in, and made it mine. As I sprinted from one end of campus to the other day in and day out for four …
Class Gifts
… Why is it, University Treasurer James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70, asked his Tercentenary Theatre … chuckle” after beginning his report “on the present state of the University’s resources” at the annual HAA meeting? … business. Harvard had received 88,000 gifts through the end of May from 30,000 alumni, he noted, thanks in good measure …
Issue: July-August 2008