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Football: Harvard 28, Columbia 21
… It was the week the Cubs won the World Series. So why not add to … but decisive reversion to form and Harvard took advantage of traditionally bumbling Columbia play to pile up enough … and 5-0 in Ivy League play. Thanks to Princeton’s thrashing of Penn, the Crimson is now alone in first place in the Ivy …
Divestment Discussions
… Divestment (HFD) posted letters to President Drew Faust and the Harvard Corporation reiterating their call to shed … and calling for an open forum for community discussion of the issue (see “The Divestment Debate,” July-August, page … fully support President Faust’s conclusion in her letters of October 2013 and April 2014 that the most responsible, …
Issue: November-December 2014
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal The Farmers’ Market at Harvard … 9: The Complete Alfred Hitchcock is a retrospective of the British master’s works, including nine fully restored … July 12-August 12: Burt Lancaster highlights the career of the Hollywood icon who starred in more than 60 films as …
Issue: July-August 2013
Office for Faculty Development and Diversity Reports on Faculty Composition, New Family Supports for Harvard Staff
… The office, created in 2005 after the Task Forces on Women Faculty and on Women in Science and … published the first detailed data comparing the proportion of women and minority faculty members at each Harvard school …
Chapter and Verse
… George Wittenberg seeks the source of the assertion, “Sub-specialization is a form of protective coloration.” “his error is himself” ( …
Issue: November-December 2015
School-sick
… harried Harvard undergraduates during spring semester, all the rounds of applications and competitions for travel funding and … produces a good many of both. But the thing that surprises me most about the past two years is that they've taken …
Dominant Flotilla
… coach in 1963, Harvard has been a steadfast powerhouse on the water. Yet some years are more powerful than others, and … In the varsity final the Crimson were two seconds in front of Princeton, which edged Wisconsin for the silver. Next up … Thames River in New London, Connecticut (see “ The Mystique of Red Top ,” May-June 2010, page 66). Last August, Yale …
Issue: July-August 2011
“Get Jobs! Learn How to Do Something.”
… There is a naïve belief [upon graduating] that you can do … anything, that the world is your oyster,” says Yule Caise of Santa Monica, a writer-director and producer of films, new media, and television shows (perhaps best …
Issue: September-October 2011
Cambridge Scholars
… have won Harvard Cambridge Scholarships to study at the University of Cambridge during the 2011-2012 academic year. Eva Gillis-Buck, of Leverett House and Pittsburgh, a joint concentrator in …
Issue: July-August 2012
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
Football: Harvard 45, Cornell 13
… special occasion. But Colton Chapple seems to make a habit of it. Harvard’s senior quarterback threw for four touchdowns and ran for another as the Crimson dispatched Cornell, 45-13, at the … had passed for four first-half touchdowns in a 52-3 rout of Holy Cross. A year ago, as the team’s backup quarterback, …
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 …
Election Results
… The names of the newly elected members of the Board of Overseers and …
What is Yiddish?
… Yiddish was born in the Rhineland more than 900 years ago. A fusion of about 80 percent German and 20 percent Hebrew, it also … hundred years, from English. Max Weinreich, in his History of the Yiddish Language, constructs a model sentence …
When Farmers Met Foragers
… has long hovered over human transitions from hunting and gathering to farming: did agriculture spread by … parlance, by diffusion? Or did the early practitioners of farming migrate, carrying their technology with them, and … at least, a tentative answer may be in hand, stored in some of the most banal artifacts held by Harvard’s Peabody …
Issue: January-February 2008