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"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
GSAS Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2012
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
Crew Coach in Treatment for Blood Cancer
… Harry Parker , the nation's most successful heavyweight crew coach, is … treatment for myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a type of blood cancer, according to a report in the Boston Globe … to leukemia. Next year, the 75-year-old Parker, subject of a Harvard Magazine cover article in 1996, will coach the …
Barbara Ruhs
… playing volleyball, running track, and becoming the top tennis player on the school team. In 1995, Ruhs … varsity athletes, as many as 130 per semester. “A lot of my work is refereeing bad nutrition advice,” she says. … athlete, who typically needs to consume a higher percentage of calories from carbohydrates.” Performance issues include …
Issue: September-October 2006
Directions and Parking for Friends Events
… EVENT VENUES Harvard Univesrsity Art Museums The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments The Harvard Museum of Natural History The Murr Center Lounge COLLECTION OF …
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
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
Alex Ross Wins MacArthur
… named a MacArthur Fellow. Ross is a regular columnist for the New Yorker and his encyclopedic first book, The Rest Is … Critics Circle Award for criticism and made numerous best-of-the-year lists, including those of the New York Times and Washington Post . In awarding him …
Update: Harvard versus Princeton
… Harvard pulled off another late-game victory on Saturday, upending a charged-up … Trailing 20-17 with 4:59 left in the game, the Crimson offense had a critical fourth-and-one at midfield. The Tiger …
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
Radcliffe Institute Fellow Trethewey Named Poet Laureate
… Natasha Trethewey, a 2001 Radcliffe Institute Fellow , has been named poet laureate of the United States. According to the announcement from the Library of Congress , quoting James H. Billington, the current …
Harvard 45, Princeton 28
… They razzled. They dazzled. It was football à la Harlem … touchdowns in each quarter and gained 365 yards in total offense. But Harvard countered with its best offensive showing of the season, keeping its Ivy League …
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
Football: Harvard 35, Columbia 21
… gave Harvard’s league leaders a spirited tussle, matching the Crimson touchdown-for-touchdown for the first 30 minutes of play. Tied 14-14 at halftime, Harvard picked up its game … Heights with a 35-21 victory, the seventh straight win of the season. The victory was the 118th for head coach Tim …