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Chapter and Verse
… Jack Holt seeks the source of “The most difficult part of attaining perfection is finding something to do for an …
Issue: November-December 2012
Harvard Calendar
… Karr, and Maxine Kumin, and panel discussions involving other poets and scholars at Poetry at Radcliffe: Celebrating Four Decades of Fellowship, on April 12. Sponsored by the Radcliffe … for the annual ArtsFirst 2003 festival, showcasing dozens of student performances, plays, and concerts in and around …
Issue: March-April 2003
Talk, Part I: On Service to Country
… is fighting two wars. Related issues arose twice during the formal Commencement-week activities. President Drew Faust, addressing her first Reserve Officers’ Training Corps commissioning ceremony on June 4, delivered a nuanced, historical analysis of the values guiding the University and the military—and …
Issue: July-August 2008
Finish and Fit
… After a burst of construction activity that transformed the Cambridge campus, Harvard has slowed the pace of expansion significantly, and begun to focus instead on …
Issue: May-June 2009
“Seeking Strange Flowers”
… As tales of adventure go , his had it all: treacherous passages … tribal princes; and religious rituals virtually unknown to the outside world. In 1924, Harvard dispatched Joseph … hunt through China’s southwestern provinces—the Wild West of their day. But gold and silver weren’t his mandate: Rock, …
Issue: September-October 2015
Harvard Magazine Celebrates 20 Years Online
… The May-June 1996 issue was the first to be posted online. … full issue online, for May-June 1996, which featured a profile of legendary crew coach Harry Parker. News subjects then …
Taxonomic Riddles
… to a trained zoologist, one earthworm looks very much like the next. So much so, in fact, that one species generally … “wild caught,” according to its record in Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) specimen database, MCZbase. … caliginosa, a common species, was collected in the vicinity of 26 Oxford Street in Cambridge, where the museum is …
Issue: July-August 2015
An Allston Metamorphosis?
… totaling 530,000 square feet above ground, with another 165,000 square feet of working space below grade, and additional underground … and other services. The entire complex, which will comprise nearly a million square feet, represents the vanguard …
Issue: November-December 2006
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 …
Unusual Triptych
… Three art installations now on view at Harvard under the collective title "The Divine Comedy" are attracting … 3 and whose whereabouts are currently unknown. It comprises nine large piles of children's backpacks—5,335 in all—each pack representing …
Pleasure by Proxy
… so sure you’d enjoy it, so you dig up some information on the Web and even watch a couple of videos. You recollect the times you’ve been on ships, and … way to answer this question: ask anyone who has just gotten off a cruise boat—a total stranger is fine. That way, you’ll …
Issue: March-April 2010
Back-to-School Bookshelf
… in his career as a leader in American higher education. The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges (Princeton, $29.95) is the most recent in his long series of distinguished analyses: critiques that credit the value of higher education by treating its flaws seriously and …
Issue: September-October 2017
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 …
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 …
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