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… NATURE AND SCIENCE The Arnold Arboretum www.arboretum.harvard.edu 617-524-1718; Jamaica Plain, Boston The arboretum offers classes, outings, exhibits, and lectures throughout … listings. • January 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m. The Carpenter Poets of Jamaica Plain, who write about their trade, read from …
Issue: January-February 2009
Decanal Duo
… Konovalovia/A Dream Picture Kathleen McCartney , Lesser professor in early childhood development and since July 2005 acting dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education, was named to the deanship on May 16 by President Lawrence H. Summers. …
Issue: July-August 2006
Faculty Honored for Teaching and Advising
… At the May 5 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting, dean Michael D. Smith announced the following annual recognitions for teaching, advising, and mentoring. Harvard College Professors Recipients of FAS’s highest honor for faculty …
Physical Educator
… Developing Smart Bells® took him more than 10 years. The former captain of Harvard's wrestling team, a 1984 U.S. Olympic-team … so he developed a new exercise routine combining elements of dance, weightlifting (using a barbell disk), and Eastern …
Issue: May-June 2002
Cambridge 02138
… The Outlook for Libraries I read with great interest … (May-June, page 36) about the paradigmatic transformation of Harvard’s library system. However, I don’t think the … I will graduate from medical school this May, so I was surprised when I read that medical students chose text and …
Issue: July-August 2010
Undergraduate Scribes
… Hudson Teslik and sophomore Rebecca Davis O'Brien. Teslik, of Washington, D.C., and Currier House, has just completed a … and literature concentration; volunteered as a teacher with the Balkan Sunflowers group in Pristina, Kosovo; and … the magazine's editors had the unique experience of conducting their fellowship interviews with Teslik by …
Issue: September-October 2003
Aaron, Bailyn, Brustein, Hall, Katz, Rampersad, Wood Receive Arts, Humanities Honors
… The White House yesterday announced the names of 19 … with the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts. The medals—the highest government honors for …
Chapter & Verse
… “pot…wall” (September-October). Eliot Kieval recognized the query as a variant of “Strive not as doth a crocke with a wall,” from Geoffrey Chaucer’s short poem “Good Counsel.” “Age is a thief” …
Issue: January-February 2008
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
A Championship—and Seasons Cut Short
… A fter College administrators informed students that they must move out of their dorms by 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 15, Harvard … days later, the NCAA canceled them, too. An initial lack of clarity from the University frustrated athletes who were …
Issue: May-June 2020
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 …
Lest We Forget
… “One hundred years after the outbreak of World War I, a group of European Harvard alumni felt the need to recognize the …
Issue: November-December 2014
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 …
Donald Pfister Named Harvard College Interim Dean
… Donald Pfister , dean of Harvard Summer School and Gray professor of systematic … dean of Harvard College, effective July 10. In making the announcement, Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of … also talented, and committed to meeting any challenge that arises. I look forward to working with all of them to …
Men’s Basketball Splits Ivy Road Games
… Harvard men’s basketball players and staff lingered on the floor at Levien Gymnasium, seemingly shell-shocked over … shoulder the load singlehandedly. For the first 30 minutes of Saturday night’s game against Cornell in Ithaca, it … Big Red hit seven three-pointers in the first eight minutes of the contest to jump out to a 27-10 lead—an advantage that …