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How to Have Flu
… looked forward to flu season with some enthusiasm. He lived off campus and alone, and when he felt aches and shivers … was right in Harvard Square, and it was sumptuous. Living off campus, I didn’t eat particularly well--and the meals at the infirmary were not to be believed. A menu …
Issue: November-December 2010
72 Hours in Harvard Square
… imminent graduates, and visiting alumni heading back to the old—or new, given all the exciting changes in the … Check into the Charles Hotel and enjoy plenty of goodies right outside your door: get a hot-stone massage … Italian restaurant, Giulia , in Porter Square. Speaking of Porter Square: if you’d prefer to channel Paris, visit …
Issue: May-June 2019
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal The Game, #130 www.gocrimson.com/sports/fball/index • … Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice 617-496-2222 • December 6 at 8 … 60 Garden Street • December 14, at 5 a.m. Special sunrise observatory-viewing event, “Catching Comet ISON,” …
Issue: November-December 2013
Double Vision
… Having experienced their own twenty-fifth reunion last year, twin brothers Mark and Steve O'Donnell ('76 and '76, respectively) offer these visions, transcribed while they murmured in a … expressly borrowed from a freshman dorm. Here is a sample of what members of the class of 1977—and other …
Issue: May-June 2002
Chapter & Verse
… accept alarms, and random incompatibilities….” She recalls the author’s being identified as a Radcliffe graduate of the 1930s. More queries from the archives: “The saved man … Sunday afternoon.” “He that keepeth the law becometh master of the intent thereof.” “Oh, do not think because I …
Issue: September-October 2014
Sharkskin Swimsuits’ Surface Swifter?
… years competitive swimmers have donned a new generation of “sharkskin” swimwear like the Speedo Fastskin II; expect to see many such suits in the … pools in London. These swimsuits claim to mimic the skin of sharks, which resembles very fine sandpaper due to …
Congratulations, Contributors
… three outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf in 2015, and happily confer on … salute him for “Line by Line,” his pitch-perfect portrait of poet and translator David Ferry, Ph.D. ’55 (May-June, page 52), and his profile of publisher Adam Freudenheim (November-December, page …
Issue: January-February 2016
Powering China with Wind Alone
… electricity needs through 2030 with wind power alone. In their study, the cover story in the September 11 issue of Science , lead author Michael McElroy, Butler professor of environmental studies, and colleagues from …
Retreat and Recreate: Peddocks Island
… Skip the clogged commute to the Cape and start your vacation … Island in Boston. At 184 acres, Peddocks is the largest of the Harbor Islands and offers the most diverse terrain—woodlands, fields, and …
Issue: July-August 2014
Samuel P. Huntington Dies at Age 81
… Political scientist Samuel P. Huntington , Ph.D. ’51, the Weatherhead University Professor emeritus, died December 24, at age 81, on Martha's … Vineyard. He retired from teaching in 2007, after 58 years of service at Harvard, according to the official University …
Neighbors on Edge
… Below, a Harvard rejoinder. More than five years of discussions and negotiations between Harvard and neighbors about the University's proposed Center for Government and … as two buildings, not one, after complaints about the loss of open space behind the Graduate School of Design. That …
Issue: September-October 2002
Football: Penn 30, Harvard 21
… Harvard's hopes of a repeat Ivy League football championship took a hit at … Franklin Field on Saturday. In a showdown between the league's perennial front-runners, a fired-up Pennsylvania team contained Harvard's high-scoring offense, outmuscled the Crimson's strong defensive line, and …
King, Kirschner Named University Professors
… biologist Marc Kirschner have been named University Professors. King becomes the Weatherhead University Professor, succeeding the late Samuel P. Huntington. Kirschner …
"Justice"—On Air, in Books, Online
… One of Harvard's most popular and celebrated courses, "Justice" (Moral Reasoning 22), taught by Bass professor of government Michael J. Sandel, takes its tutelage outside the University’s walls this autumn with a three-pronged …
Taking Smoking Seriously
… while directing tobacco-control efforts for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, professor of the practice of public health Gregory N. Connolly …
Issue: March-April 2011