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Chapter & Verse
… Dennis De Witt hopes someone can identify “a song or bit of doggerel last heard, I think, in the 1960s, suggesting that there was nothing left for the … Modern Movement to discover because, in the approximation of the refrain that lingers in my mind, ‘It was all done in …
Issue: November-December 2008
Cambridge 02138
… I don't have any." He jokes about being a "minority" at the HAA because he earned his undergraduate degree from … last three decades. "Who would have thought the president of the HAA never went to the College?" Brock asks. "I make a … with shared interests, such as high tech, social enterprise, gay rights, or African-American identity. "We want to …
Issue: September-October 2002
"Only" a Law School Man
… I don't have any." He jokes about being a "minority" at the HAA because he earned his undergraduate degree from … last three decades. "Who would have thought the president of the HAA never went to the College?" Brock asks. "I make a … with shared interests, such as high tech, social enterprise, gay rights, or African-American identity. "We want to …
Issue: September-October 2002
Sasha
… When Sasha joined Harvard’s staff in August 2022, she became the first non-human to receive a University ID. The Labrador … recently graduated from Puppies Behind Bars, a nonprofit that trains incarcerated people to raise service dogs for veterans and first responders. University Police Officer Steven Fumicello spent two weeks at a prison …
Issue: May-June 2024
Under Wraps
… As planning proceeds for the conversion of the former Holyoke Center into the Smith … and face lift—a formidable challenge in the tight confines of Harvard Square. Stage One is the staging itself: here, …
Issue: November-December 2015
Mapping Music
… spent this past academic year as a composer in residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, has developed a … an orbifold (which can have from two to an infinite number of dimensions, depending on the number of notes being played at once), Tymoczko’s system shows how …
Issue: January-February 2007
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 …
James Mickens
… explaining how comedians Hannibal Buress and Louis C.K. get their laughs: Buress’s high “joke density” versus Louis … C.K.’s slow-build storytelling. For Mickens, an associate professor of computer science known for his snappy, engaging, and …
Issue: March-April 2016
Sports in Brief
… 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
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
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 …
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
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
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