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Chapter & Verse
… Margaret Lindsey hopes someone knows the source of “Unmeasur’d space is the Lord’s habitation, … His hand upholds creation’s realm...”—“the beginning of a hymn-like chorus which was one of the pieces our school …
Issue: March-April 2020
Cohen Canopy
… architecture critic Michael Kimmelman , who calls it “One of the best new works of architecture in New York.” Designed by McCue professor …
Arts Imbalance
… temporary art installation titled Arts Imbalance brightened the days of many in downtown Boston. On July 1, a dozen volunteers, … to the Summer Street and Congress Street bridges. A pair of life-size, aluminum, sheet-metal figures—modeled on a …
Issue: November-December 2012
Wanted
… The Office of Career Services (OCS) and the Harvard Alumni Association have launched a new campaign, …
Issue: November-December 2014
Men’s Basketball Falls to Cornell and Columbia
… Harvard men’s basketball players descended on Cambridge for the team’s annual alumni reunion, and the memories—aided by … a few beers at John Harvard’s—were flowing. There was talk of the ’47-’48 squad that nearly knocked off perennial powerhouse Michigan State. Alumni from the …
Divestment Discussions
… Divestment (HFD) posted letters to President Drew Faust and the Harvard Corporation reiterating their call to shed … and calling for an open forum for community discussion of the issue (see “The Divestment Debate,” July-August, page … fully support President Faust’s conclusion in her letters of October 2013 and April 2014 that the most responsible, …
Issue: November-December 2014
School-sick
… harried Harvard undergraduates during spring semester, all the rounds of applications and competitions for travel funding and … produces a good many of both. But the thing that surprises me most about the past two years is that they've taken …
Election Results
… The names of the newly elected members of the Board of Overseers and …
When Farmers Met Foragers
… has long hovered over human transitions from hunting and gathering to farming: did agriculture spread by … parlance, by diffusion? Or did the early practitioners of farming migrate, carrying their technology with them, and … at least, a tentative answer may be in hand, stored in some of the most banal artifacts held by Harvard’s Peabody …
Issue: January-February 2008
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal The Farmers’ Market at Harvard … 9: The Complete Alfred Hitchcock is a retrospective of the British master’s works, including nine fully restored … July 12-August 12: Burt Lancaster highlights the career of the Hollywood icon who starred in more than 60 films as …
Issue: July-August 2013
Dedicated to Craft
… Visitors to Lowell’s Boat Shop in Amesbury, Massachusetts, often find Graham McKay ’01 hunched over a wooden sailing dory, perhaps hand-planing a gently bowed plank. The task, he says, like the tool and the craftmanship, has … as a working museum. “We demonstrate different stages of construction and the boats’ components,” notes McKay, the …
Issue: July-August 2015
Hop, Skip, and Soar
… marsupials like kangaroos and wallabies can increase their speed without expending additional energy. "In all other mammals," says Andrew Biewener, director of the Concord Field Station, where the discovery was made, … But wallabies and kangaroos store and recover the force of each hop in their elastic tendons, bouncing along by …
Issue: January-February 2002
Chapter & Verse
… a source for: “We have no moral right to decide on a basis of opinion, that which can be determined as a matter of fact.” Norman Holly writes, “In the 1950s, when only men were admitted to Harvard, students …
Issue: November-December 2013
Losing Control: A Scientific Love Story
… Weiss, whose company is called PhD Productions. “My love of science stemmed from wanting to know how life works and why things are the way they are. In writing and directing movies, I … and story the same way — trying to get to the essence of why people are the way they are and do what they do.” …
Football: Harvard 45, Cornell 13
… special occasion. But Colton Chapple seems to make a habit of it. Harvard’s senior quarterback threw for four touchdowns and ran for another as the Crimson dispatched Cornell, 45-13, at the … had passed for four first-half touchdowns in a 52-3 rout of Holy Cross. A year ago, as the team’s backup quarterback, …