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Football 2017: Harvard 41, Georgetown 2
… Football has three phases: offense, defense and special teams. When all three are … for Harvard as it rolled over overmatched Georgetown 41-2. The victory ran the Crimson’s overall 2017 record to 2-1. (Harvard is 1-0 in the Ivy League.) The Hoyas, members of the Patriot League, dropped to 1-3. This was the …
Staff Testimonials
… students, faculty, and alumni are engaged in every facet of this enormous social transformation: advising on clean … development (a 2010 dispatch). Until an alumnus attuned to the global University provided the means for international … are so important to the University community—and the world—of today and tomorrow. Now, thanks to his support, we can …
Artful Campus
… enriched with a significant, thought-provoking, collection of contemporary art (see “Rethinking the Walls,” January-February 2013). Now the grounds are … and lush landscaping, but with a temporary installation of four sculptures on loan from contemporary artists. On the …
Issue: November-December 2016
Gould Goods
… The late Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)—Agassiz professor of zoology, paleontologist, theorist of evolutionary …
Issue: January-February 2012
An “Emotional Rollercoaster”
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Last Wednesday, Tommy Amaker, the Stemberg Family head coach of men’s basketball, sat on a leather couch in the … for winter snowfall. Why was the coach so loose ahead of the season’s most pivotal moment? It was strategic. With …
Honeybee House Hunting
… The more scientists study the social insects, they more they are amazed. Thomas D. Seeley, Ph.D. ’78, professor and chair of neurobiology and behavior at Cornell, combines vocation …
Issue: May-June 2011
Chapter & Verse
… Richard Kennelly seeks a poem he saw in the late ’70s, perhaps in The Atlantic Monthly, in which an … that causes him to recall his own past and the wild rush of riding horses. Kennelly remembers the phrases “The … (or “son”), “A bum in boots they call him,” and “The smell of horse sweat.” Mark Saltveit submits two palindromes— …
Issue: July-August 2019
Jim Yong Kim Named Dartmouth President
… Jim Yong Kim, director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), has accepted the presidency …
Alumni Learning, Online
… through HarvardX for Alumni, a spring experiment with the University’s online learning partnership. Beginning on … edX platform: Poetry in America , with Elisa New, Cabot professor of American literature; The Ancient Greek Hero , with …
Issue: March-April 2014
Football 2018: Harvard 31, Brown 17
… THERE IS no substitute for good substitutes. On Friday night … still hobbled by injury, Harvard employed a triumvirate of sophomores who ran over, around, and through Brown. The … without nail-biting—was a 31-17 victory over a gritty pack of Bears in the Ivy League opener for both teams. The result …
With Our Thanks
… four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on our readers’ behalf during 2017, and and to … Leslie Brown Michael Zuckerman ’10, J.D. ’17—past president of the Harvard Law Review , now clerking for a federal judge … deep strengths. Richard D. Kahlenberg Photograph courtesy of Richard D. Kahlenberg Richard D. Kahlenberg ’85, J.D. …
Issue: January-February 2018
Journalists Tim Noah and E. J. Dionne Jr. Win Hillman Prizes
… The Sidney Hillman Foundation , which confers annual prizes … its 2011 prize for magazine journalism to Tim Noah '80, of Slate , for a 10-part series on income inequality titled … "The Great Divergence." Noah was an Undergraduate Fellow of Harvard Magazine . Separately, Washington Post columnist …
Spring into Sports
… page 83), ran a personal best 55.88 seconds to win the NCAA 400-meter hurdles championship at the University of Oregon--her first national title. (She finished seventh … Columbia to share the league title. In the first round of the NCAA Division I tournament, Notre Dame blanked the …
Remembering Max Hall
… Max Hall died in Cambridge on January 12 at 100 years of age. He was a writer, teacher of writing, journalist, editor of scholarly books, and for … this magazine. Each of his numerous articles was a model of the ABCs of good journalism: accuracy, brevity, and clarity. …
Issue: March-April 2011
Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2014