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Graduate Student Union, Continued
… Graduate-student organizers were buoyed last summer after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) granted students … unionization, still appear remote. After more than a month of delay, the results of the balloting in November were inconclusive: 1,456 …
Brevia
… Professorship Undone A $2.5-million gift to Harvard Divinity … Islamic religious studies, has been returned. Students and others had raised questions about anti-Semitic activity by … released 11 years earlier. Nota Bene Ratings reprised . U.S. News & World Report , in its wisdom, again …
Issue: November-December 2004
Lafayette 35, Harvard 18
… play in Harvard Stadium on Saturday. Taking full advantage of early Harvard turnovers, dropped passes, and penalties at … hadn’t lost to Lafayette since 1996, and hadn’t lost at the Stadium since the final game of the 2006 season. Lafayette (5-1, 1-0 Patriot League) had …
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 …
Cancer Chronicle
… writes Matt Freedman ’78, “reproduces a journal I kept in the fall of 2012 while I was undergoing care at Massachusetts General … thing up with whatever came into my head during the course of my treatment.” The result, hand-lettered and illustrated, …
Issue: July-August 2014
How to Wreak Havoc
… In football , there’s a radical asymmetry between offense and defense. For an offensive play to succeed, all 11 players have to execute …
Issue: September-October 2011
"Anti-Dominant" Journal
… Agee recalls, “but when he was at Harvard I never mustered the courage to take any of his courses.” Yet today, even the Nobel laureate sends poems to Agee, founder and editor of what has been called “one of the most important cultural …
Issue: September-October 2008
Sunday Indulgences
… but you’ll get over it. If what you want instead is a sense of gaiety, festivity, and well-being, go to an establishment whose stated mission is to provide these things, and which does so amply: go to brunch at … help. Formerly UpStairs at the Pudding, this cheerful enterprise now occupies what was once the Pi Eta, an all-male …
Issue: May-June 2008
Our Accomplished Contributors
… Photograph by Eliza Grinnell Harry Lewis Photograph courtesy of Pete Ryan Pete Ryan Photograph courtesy of Peter Pereira Peter Periera We warmly thank three … College, is a devoted and innovative teacher. “Reinventing the Classroom” (September-October 2012), his first-person …
Issue: January-February 2013
University Professors
… Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Stephanie Mitchell/ Harvard News Office President Lawrence H. Summers appointed two utterly different historians, both members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, to University …
Issue: March-April 2006
Ghosts
… last class on a Thursday, a Core course that met early in the morning in the Science Center. After the lecture, two fellow undergraduates and I had coffee with our professor, who had invited the class to join him. We sat at a …
Issue: July-August 2009
Frequently Asked Questions
… | Policies Contact Q: How do I submit a letter to the editor? A: Harvard Magazine welcomes letters on its … Magazine publishes news sent in by alumni and alumnae of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and their class secretaries, and news from alumni and alumnae of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. We also publish …
Destructive Beetles Discovered Near Arnold Arboretum—Updated
… July 7 Asian longhorned beetles —a destructive predator of maples and other tree species—have been detected on the grounds of Faulkner Hospital in Boston, across Centre Street from …
Plans for Barry’s Corner Released
… Samuels & Associates —the architecture firm selected as a partner by the University for the development of a mixed-use, residential-and-retail complex on a 2.67-acre parcel of land located at the intersection of North Harvard Street …
Evolution by Fire
… How did we develop large brains, for example? Moore professor of biological anthropology Richard Wrangham offers a fresh … more calories available from existing foods and reduced the caloric cost of digestion—was the breakthrough …
Issue: November-December 2009