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… SPECIAL . On February 24 at Sanders Theatre, the Harvard Foundation presents the annual Cultural … Rhythms performing arts festival, a day-long celebration of diversity at the University. Call (617) 496-2222 for … Le Corbusier's Ronchamp. The Harvard University Art Museums offer a variety of exhibits this winter. Appearing at the …
Growing Pains
… In January, the men’s basketball team fell 62-56 against Vermont—the … “Our record,” added Chris Lewis ’20, “doesn’t show how good of a team we are.” This underscored the team’s dilemma. On paper, they are studs: Towns and Lewis are two of four sophomores who were ranked among the top 100 …
Issue: March-April 2018
Overseer and Director Candidates
… five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots, mailed out by … at the HAA’s annual meeting on May 25, on the afternoon of Commencement day. All holders of Harvard degrees, except …
Issue: May-June 2017
Crafting Color
… Among natural objects , blue is perhaps the rarest color. Chlorophyll in plants creates their … create the brilliant purples, reds, oranges, and yellows of fall. Cave paintings from prehistoric times show browns … feathers, for instance, or a morpho butterfly’s wing—it is often created through unusual means. Most colors in nature …
Issue: July-August 2014
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
Memorial Church’s Modest Makeover
… and displacing Morning Prayers and Sunday services during the fall semester—to Holden Chapel and the Radcliffe … Institute campus, respectively. With the resumption of academic activity in the new semester, the church website happily bannered the news of “Reopening Jan. 23!”—and indeed, Morning Prayers were …
Football 2017: Harvard 3, Yale 24
… Not our day. Not our year. On Saturday at the Yale Bowl, Harvard went to extreme lengths to prove that you can’t win if you can’t score. In the 134th playing of The Game, the Crimson—partly undone by two slippery … finish. The triumph also allowed the Bulldogs to hold off Dartmouth and surprising Columbia and bring to New Haven …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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