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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
Beauty, Bounty, Brio, Buoyancy
… Heaney created a true legacy for Harvard’s commemoration of its 350th birthday with his “Villanelle for an Anniversary” (“A spirit moves, John Harvard walks the yard/The books stand open and the gates unbarred.”). … Gund Hall, “united by a concatenation of ladders which comprise a kind of landlubber’s rigging,” strikes Heaney as a …
Issue: September-October 2011
Professor Holdren to Be Nominated as White House Science Adviser
… John P. Holdren, Heinz professor of environmental policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is to …
Chapter & Verse
… asks if anyone can provide definitive attribution for the assertion, “From the music they love, you shall know the texture of men’s souls.” That line, he writes, is quoted in the 1949 … played by Trevor Howard states, “I copied it out a book of Galsworthy’s to impress you.” “a bad 15 minutes at the …
Issue: March-April 2016
Rolling Along
… Before the Harvard football team kicked off the school’s 142nd … toughest foe was a familiar one: his 2014 squad, one of the greatest in Crimson history. This year, after all, …
Issue: November-December 2015
Homing In on Harvard
… afternoon, I walked past a street musician playing The Beatles’ hit “Here Comes the Sun.” I remember reckoning … eye-pleasing during the warm season than in other times of the year. But being on campus this summer has been … took it in, and made it mine. As I sprinted from one end of campus to the other day in and day out for four …
Alumni Gifts
… The University had received 77,000 gifts as of May 24, … the HAA’s annual meeting. The Harvard and Radcliffe classes of 1961 not only had the largest attendance of a fiftieth …
Issue: July-August 2011
Mazur Wins Minerva Prize
… Eric Mazur, Balkanski professor of physics and applied physics, has been named the first winner of the Minerva Prize for Advancements in …
Make That a Rhodes Sextet
… have won 2012 Rhodes Scholarships for two to three years of study at Oxford University, joining the four American members of the College class of 2012 whose … a choral society of over 150 members; as Director of Enterprise for the Harvard African Business and Investment Club …
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal The Farmers' Market at Harvard … between the Science Center and Memorial Hall, at the corner of Oxford and Kirkland streets. In Allston: Fridays, 3-7 P.M. Corner of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue. Organized by …
Issue: July-August 2011
Harvard at Fenway, 100 Years Later
… Few realize that the first baseball game ever played at Fenway Park was … Fenway is now celebrating its centennial with a season of special events, and the story of that first game —a 2-0 win for the Red Sox, the game …
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 …
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2013-14 Fellows
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced the … are Harvard faculty members: Arkhat Abzhanov, associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology , who studies the …
Facebook Profile Before First Steps?
… about websites that let infants and toddlers set up profiles. OK, so it is actually mom and dad setting up the profiles on sites such as Totspot, Odadeo, Lil'Grams, and …
Woolapalooza
… The 206-acre Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln is … owl, pheasants, and a fisher. “Ms. G,” the Commonwealth’s official state groundhog, also resides on site, but is … appeared to be expecting at press time.) The rest of the celebratory day is filled with herding-dog …
Issue: March-April 2016