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Hop, Skip, and Soar
… marsupials like kangaroos and wallabies can increase their speed without expending additional energy. "In all other mammals," says Andrew Biewener, director of the Concord Field Station, where the discovery was made, … But wallabies and kangaroos store and recover the force of each hop in their elastic tendons, bouncing along by …
Issue: January-February 2002
Dedicated to Craft
… Visitors to Lowell’s Boat Shop in Amesbury, Massachusetts, often find Graham McKay ’01 hunched over a wooden sailing dory, perhaps hand-planing a gently bowed plank. The task, he says, like the tool and the craftmanship, has … as a working museum. “We demonstrate different stages of construction and the boats’ components,” notes McKay, the …
Issue: July-August 2015
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 …
Football: Harvard 52, Holy Cross 3
… If college football had a mercy rule, Friday night’s game at the Stadium would have been called at halftime. In a driving rainstorm, Harvard scored on all of its first-half possessions and led Holy Cross, 49-3, at the close of the second quarter. Senior quarterback Colton Chapple, …
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
Cohen Canopy
… architecture critic Michael Kimmelman , who calls it “One of the best new works of architecture in New York.” Designed by McCue professor …
Chapter & Verse
… “the commonest form of stupidity” (January-February). Joseph Marcus responded: “1. I plugged the Nietzsche quotation into Google Scholar, which returns gazillions of citations. One occurs in Kenneth Hart Green’s Leo Strauss …
Issue: March-April 2014
Black and Brown
… For its first "Celebration of Black Alumni," organized by Kirkland and Ellis professor of law David B. Wilkins '77, J.D. '80, the Law School invited more than 1,500 graduates to return …
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 …
Chapter & Verse
… a source for: “We have no moral right to decide on a basis of opinion, that which can be determined as a matter of fact.” Norman Holly writes, “In the 1950s, when only men were admitted to Harvard, students …
Issue: November-December 2013
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 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
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
Arts Imbalance
… temporary art installation titled Arts Imbalance brightened the days of many in downtown Boston. On July 1, a dozen volunteers, … to the Summer Street and Congress Street bridges. A pair of life-size, aluminum, sheet-metal figures—modeled on a …
Issue: November-December 2012
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 …