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… Hockey Heading into February and the sixty-fifth annual Beanpot Tournament, the men’s hockey … Lawrence, and a 5-2 triumph over Boston College, in front of a sold-out crowd at Bright-Landry Hockey Center, that snapped the Eagles’ 10-game win streak. But a series of bad losses on the road in January—including one to an …
Issue: March-April 2017
Harvard 42, Dartmouth 21
… Gino Gordon had a bravura day at the Stadium on Saturday, rushing for 119 yards and three … for 120 yards and two touchdowns, the third and fourth of a rapidly blossoming Crimson career. Not since the 1999 … eight carries, averaging almost 15 yards per carry. Ten of his 12 touches on Saturday produced either a first down …
A Note to Our Readers - Lawrence Lessig Q&A
… We regret that the Q&A with Lawrence Lessig is not available. Interested readers may wish to visit some of the websites that Professor Lessig has launched to pursue his fight against the …
A Difficult Defense
… When the Harvard men’s basketball team fell to Holy Cross … to turn the ball over 24 times and knocked Harvard out of the Associated Press’s Top -25. The match-up raised … could Harvard turn to as a reliable ball handler? Was the offense excessively dependent on senior Wesley Saunders—and …
Open Book
… with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe, Santayana, and many other of the Acclaimed. Wheelock dictated an autobiography, an account not only of his life, but of the New York publishing world in an …
Issue: May-June 2003
Chapter & Verse
… “for what many commentators, including Alan Dershowitz in The Vanishing American Jew, refer to as a ‘quip’ or … asks who declared, “A generalization is useful only insofar as one’s knowledge of the particulars will take him.” He has heard it …
Issue: July-August 2015
Purgatory—and Beyond
… Misery,” a cleft in towering granite bedrock, is among the pure, kid-like joys of scrambling in Purgatory Chasm State Reservation. The entire site is a geological funhouse—of uncertain origins. “It’s a fault,” posits Nichols College …
Issue: September-October 2019
Senior Alumni
… The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on Commencement day were Lillian (Sher) Sugarman ’37, 98, of Swampscott, Massachusetts, who was accompanied by her … wife, Margaret Rothschild ’65. Both were recognized during the afternoon ceremony by HAA president Catherine Gellert …
Issue: July-August 2014
Accidental Academics
… note that I should not be writing this column: I have a thesis chapter due on Thursday and pages to go before I … and some for the opportunity to work with a specific star professor. I knew Harvard's academics would be good, but that … all, I reasoned, the students there actually know their professors. For me, Harvard's appeal came from outside the …
Issue: March-April 2003
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal The Farmers’ Market at Harvard … October 25. In Cambridge: Tuesdays, noon-6 p.m. Corner of Oxford and Kirkland streets, adjacent to Memorial Hall. In Allston: Fridays, 3-7 p.m. Corner of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue. Theater …
Issue: September-October 2011
John Briscoe
… South Africa, where a green, well-watered coastline rings the arid but economically important mining regions of the interior, he understood early the links between water … at Harvard in January with a joint appointment—McKay professor of environmental engineering in the School of …
Issue: March-April 2009
Chapter & Verse
… Thomas Gutheil seeks the full text of a poem with a final couplet … “Childhood is a lost, enchanted land, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to find it again.” The words to “My …
Issue: January-February 2016
Harvard Happenings
… Seasonal The Game, #129 www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/index November 17 at Harvard Stadium. Harvard Glee Club http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice 617-496-2222 November 16 at 8 p.m. Harvard-Yale …
Issue: November-December 2012
Football: Harvard 41, Holy Cross 35
… Waking up on the morning after, players and fans on both sides might have … Holy Cross missed a field goal try, and Harvard finished off an astonishing comeback with a 17-yard touchdown run by … the game goes into the books as the longest in 140 years of Harvard football. Led by freshman quarterback Pete …
Treating RSI
… (RSI) is not a malady that can be treated instantly. "These are soft-tissue injuries, probably best characterized as … neuromuscular problems," says Emil F. Pascarelli, M.D., a professor of clinical medicine at the Columbia University …