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Football 2017: Harvard 14, Cornell 17
… That’s why they play the games. Last Saturday at unseasonably warm Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York, in one of the most shocking Ivy League upsets of recent times, Cornell—picked to finish last in the …
Anniversary Announcements
… John Harvard was born, but a record book from Southwark Cathedral in London announces his baptism there on November … anniversary. photograph by Jon Chase / Harvard News Office In the land of his birth, the University’s original benefactor will be …
Issue: November-December 2007
Chapter and Verse
… Winthrop Thies would like both the name of the U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote, … in an opinion from, he thinks, the mid 1930s, and the name of the case being decided, which involved the federal estate …
Issue: July-August 2010
Mazur Wins Minerva Prize
… Eric Mazur, Balkanski professor of physics and applied physics, has been named the first winner of the Minerva Prize for Advancements in …
Chapter and Verse
… J.P. Akins requests the complete text of a poem he remembers from his youth … into the November evening. ” He thinks it may be the work of the late David McCord ’21, L.H.D. ’56. From our …
Issue: January-February 2011
Dining & Shopping Directory
… The Charles Hotel, One Bennett Street, Cambridge 02138; … 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge 02138; 617-496-0700. The Harvard Coop, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge … ordering and shipping information, call 800-368-1882. www.thecoop.com . Harvard University Press, Holyoke Arcade, …
Issue: May-June 2002
Woolapalooza
… The 206-acre Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln is … owl, pheasants, and a fisher. “Ms. G,” the Commonwealth’s official state groundhog, also resides on site, but is … appeared to be expecting at press time.) The rest of the celebratory day is filled with herding-dog …
Issue: March-April 2016
Former Fellow Chelsea Manning
… The mid September appointment of Chelsea Manning—a former soldier convicted of leaking classified information, pardoned by President …
Issue: November-December 2017
University People
… Services Chief Lisa Hogarty, most recently chief operating officer of the Columbia University Medical Center and previously …
Issue: July-August 2010
Tidbits, One Ringtailed
… A contributing editor of this magazine, Christopher S. Johnson ’64, of Cambridge, read the entire forty-fifth anniversary report of his College …
Issue: March-April 2010
Rolling Along
… Before the Harvard football team kicked off the school’s 142nd … toughest foe was a familiar one: his 2014 squad, one of the greatest in Crimson history. This year, after all, …
Issue: November-December 2015
Chef’s Knives and Cardiologists
… “ I come from three generations of Jewish bakers,” says David Eisenberg, Osher distinguished associate professor of medicine. “I grew up cooking and with a great … of life. We forget that at our peril.” Eisenberg (see “ The New Ancient Trend in Medicine ,” March-April 2002, page …
Issue: July-August 2011
Architecture That Imitates Life
… The relationship between architecture and nature, for the last 500 years or so, has been one of juxtaposition. Architects and planners, referring to … model for building design. “As a practicing architect, one of the reasons I went to the Graduate School of Design was …
Issue: September-October 2009
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2013-14 Fellows
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced the … are Harvard faculty members: Arkhat Abzhanov, associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology , who studies the …
Chapter and Verse
… Patrick Powers would like to learn the name of the physicist who allegedly declared, “This is not nuts, this is supernuts,” on viewing the launch of the prototype of a space ship powered by nuclear …
Issue: May-June 2015