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Holly Day Fair
… winter and nature at its annual Holly Day Fair. Visitors gather in the greenhouse, where a wood stove burns amid pots of homemade soups and trays of cakes, cookies, and pies. Local food vendors and artisans …
Issue: November-December 2016
Chapter & Verse
… said, approximately, “I don’t know why so much is made of the thoughts of great men. I have had many of the same thoughts, they …
Issue: March-April 2013
Chapter and Verse
… Jane Arnold seeks a short story, possibly from the 1960s, about a judge known for mercilessness who goes fishing on his day off without his toupee, teeth, or ID, and is picked up for … the horrible judge they’ll face the next day (himself, of course), and they break out of jail. The next time he is …
Issue: January-February 2019
Directions to 7 Ware Street
… View interactive Google map Directions from: West of Boston South of Boston North of Boston Northwest of Boston Logan Airport … Parking Harvard Magazine has one parking space available in the lot adjacent to our building. There are metered spaces …
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
Full Circle
… I was still an anxious, green freshman living in Thayer, my then-boyfriend and I happened to be walking along Bow … was Harvard undergraduate housing. I had not quite shaken off the fetters of my Minnesota suburban upbringing, so some part of me …
Chapter and Verse
… Charles Hayford writes , “One of the Beat poets, I think, perhaps Gary Snyder, wrote of walking in the mountains in late winter or early spring. …
Issue: July-August 2012
A Promising Start
… Once again —for the third time in four years—Harvard started off as the … 24-21, surviving a dramatic Brown rally in the final minute of play. Brown had the best of it in the game’s first half, …
Issue: November-December 2009
Chapter & Verse
… Margaret Lindsey hopes someone knows the source of “Unmeasur’d space is the Lord’s habitation, … His hand upholds creation’s realm...”—“the beginning of a hymn-like chorus which was one of the pieces our school …
Issue: March-April 2020
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
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
Does “Sharkskin” Swimwear Make You Faster?
… 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 …
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 …
Chapter and Verse
… Peter Williams seeks help in locating a bit of light verse rhyming “elderly gentlemen” with “unornamental men,” possibly from the Saturday Review around 1960. Ginny Schneider would like … other people sleep.” C&V asked Eric Mazur, Balkanski professor of physics and of applied physics, who has used the …
Issue: January-February 2013
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
… Sections of this seacoast city, where restaurants, shops, and architecture today charm herds of visitors, were once largely derelict. Residents resisted plans to bulldoze part of the downtown area in the 1950s, and instead helped turn 10 …
Issue: September-October 2014