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Football: Harvard 34, Cornell 24
… Michael Pruneau, to do battle against a Cornell team led by the Ivy League’s all-time, all-everything passer, Jeff Mathews. Mathews was Goliathlike, completing 39 of 56 passes for 472 yards—more yardage than any Harvard … had ever given up to an opposing quarterback—and a pair of touchdowns. But he was outplayed by Pruneau and a …
Holly Day Fair
… winter and nature at its annual Holly Day Fair. Visitors gather in the greenhouse, where a wood stove burns amid pots of homemade soups and trays of cakes, cookies, and pies. Local food vendors and artisans …
Issue: November-December 2016
A Rural Retreat
… Just 19 miles from hot and congested downtown Boston lies the bucolic town of Lincoln. Even before postwar suburbia arose, Lincoln’s … eschewed sprawl. As a result, more than 38 percent of the community is protected land. Eighty public trails, …
Issue: July-August 2017
Honoring Our Contributors
… four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf in 2016, and happily confer on … Jane Kamensky Jane Kamensky joins scholarly prowess—professor of history and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the …
Issue: January-February 2017
Fighting Brain Drain
… Bangsberg first began contemplating a partnership with the medical school at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), in Mbarara, Uganda, he met … but for medical research as well. “If you look at the map of HIV, it’s all in sub-Saharan Africa, but if you look at …
Two Harvard Students Named Marshall Scholars
… The 2015 class of Marshall Scholars includes Michael George ’14 (’15), of Quincy House and Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, and Anna … comparative social policy at Oxford and economic history at the London School of Economics. Hagen, an English …
A New Model
… Given this, perhaps its most remarkable accomplishment is the degree of consensus it reached on a controversial issue. "It was clearly a broad committee, both in terms of breadth of knowledge and different perspectives," says …
Issue: March-April 2002
How Harvard Has Changed How I Eat
… When I was a little girl in China, my mother forbade me candies and sweet drinks. Because I was … lying in bed at night, I plan out the timing and location of every meal of the next day with mouthwatering precision. I have an …
Directions to 7 Ware Street
… View interactive Google map Directions from: West of Boston South of Boston North of Boston Northwest of Boston Logan Airport … Parking Harvard Magazine has one parking space available in the lot adjacent to our building. There are metered spaces …
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
… Sections of this seacoast city, where restaurants, shops, and architecture today charm herds of visitors, were once largely derelict. Residents resisted plans to bulldoze part of the downtown area in the 1950s, and instead helped turn 10 …
Issue: September-October 2014
Full Circle
… I was still an anxious, green freshman living in Thayer, my then-boyfriend and I happened to be walking along Bow … was Harvard undergraduate housing. I had not quite shaken off the fetters of my Minnesota suburban upbringing, so some part of me …
Peer Schools Outperform Harvard’s Endowment
… have reported, HMC’s performance gap still looms large—and the reasons for his disappointment become clear. On October … consistent with what other endowments are reporting. As of August 31, the end of Stanford’s fiscal year, the endowment was valued at $24.8 …
A Promising Start
… Once again —for the third time in four years—Harvard started off as the … 24-21, surviving a dramatic Brown rally in the final minute of play. Brown had the best of it in the game’s first half, …
Issue: November-December 2009
Chapter and Verse
… Peter Williams seeks help in locating a bit of light verse rhyming “elderly gentlemen” with “unornamental men,” possibly from the Saturday Review around 1960. Ginny Schneider would like … other people sleep.” C&V asked Eric Mazur, Balkanski professor of physics and of applied physics, who has used the …
Issue: January-February 2013
Finding Their Rhythm
… Stemberg men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker sat on a leather couch in the glass-encased lounge overlooking Lavietes … Brown’s leading scorer, Steven Spieth, to 11 points on four of 13 shots. Most significantly, the team’s attack was … over Brown showed improved ball movement and the evolution of freshman Seth Towns, crucial factors in the team’s …