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Squash Goes a New Way
… squash coach Mike Way has signed a contract to become the new head coach of men's and women's squash at Harvard, according to a report in the Harvard Crimson. Way's highest-profile accomplishment is coaching fellow Canadian Jonathan …
Pork Bao and Bubble Waffles
… Kong bubble waffles (a popular street-food item) come slathered with five-spice butter ($16). And the resident … pineapple, and lime juices; $12). Sh ō j ō also offers fine Japanese spirits and a crazy-long list of pricey whiskeys. People come to have fun. The place is …
Issue: January-February 2018
Student Arrested for Rape
… Joshua M. Elster '00 , of Kirkland House and Tucson, was arrested by Harvard police … County Jail, and arraigned February 2 on three counts of rape and two counts of assault and battery of an undergraduate woman. Elster pleaded innocent to the charges. He posted $10,000 cash bail next day. District …
An Unheralded Honored Guest
… Amid all the pomp and circumstance on Wednesday, a different kind of procession was spotted: a Secret Service cavalcade … Joseph R. Biden Jr., whose niece, Alana Biden, is a member of the College class of 2011. Biden also greeted a former …
First-hand recollections
… stadium. You felt like you were going to war. Just before the Yale game, our coach, Eddie Casey, liked to tell the … didn't count. Against Dartmouth in 1952, I caught a kickoff five yards deep in the end zone and ran it back for a … in the crowd stood up in unison. I ran up the left side of the field and my feet didn't touch the ground; I was …
Issue: September-October 2003
Satirist Borowitz on New PBS Show
… Satirist Andy Borowitz ’80, author of the Borowitz Report and co-creator of Fresh Prince of Bel Air, will do a comedy segment at the …
Chapter & Verse
… tells no time.” Marcia Barrabee hopes someone can surpass the references she’s examined by providing an origin for … Cham’s court”—which has already foiled many members of the Dorothy L. Sayers Society. Michael Purtell requests … 7 Ware Street, Cambridge 02138. Readers seeking texts of poems or passages identified for others are asked to …
Chapter & Verse
… in an effort to assist Robert B. Wood ’40, who had sent the editors a query they couldn’t answer, but hoped their … But that’s all I remember. Where from, and what’s the rest of it?” His question, though rerun in the digital age, … with this serendipitous citation, C&V bows to the resources of the World Wide Web and becomes an occasional item only. …
Issue: January-February 2018
"It's all shrouded in protective language."
… Rosner How do you meet people? "I don't date, at least in the conventional sense. Dating seems like a mechanical, … based on that decide if they want to go on a rotating cycle of drinks, dinners, movies, et cetera, with each other. It … sometime?' It's all shrouded in protective language. "A lot of my friends tend to be guys, which can create awkward …
Issue: March-April 2003
Harvard Business School
… Events begin with the Dean's Award breakfast , open to award recipients and … Center Williams Room. Sir Ronald Cohen, M.B.A. ’69, chair of The Portland Trust and Bridges Ventures, will speak at … 27, degree candidates will aseemble at 6:30 a.m. in front of Kresge Hall for the procession to Harvard Yard. Following …
Sports Wrap
… Men’s Rowing Undefeated throughout the spring, the heavyweights capped another sterlingseason … took home their fifth consecutive Rowe Cup, symbolic of overall heavyweight supremacy on Lake Quinsigamond. Harvard’s time was only 0.27 seconds off the course record. The varsity came fifth at the …
Issue: July-August 2014
Championships and Milestones
… The Harvard men’s basketball team earned its fourth … (26-4, 13-1 Ivy) claimed the title with a 70-58 shellacking of Yale at New Haven, gaining revenge for the Crimson’s only … place all-time in the Ivy League. ( Harvard Magazine profiled the team’s two point guards, sophomore Siyani …
Your Harvard Quotations
… Shapiro’s top 25 Harvard quotations . Now add a favorite of your own using the Comment field below. Please include the name of the speaker or writer, that individual's Harvard …
Issue: March-April 2011
We’ve Made Some Changes
… Welcome to the new harvardmagazine.com . We've worked hard to make the … that interest you. Use the navigation bar at the top of every page to explore your favorite topics: news, … and more. In addition to the broad topics listed at the top of each article page, in the left-hand margin you'll see …
Butler President's Crimson Roots
… As the nation's basketball fans tune in to the NCAA … upstart, Butler University (located near Indianapolis), one of the keenest spectators will be Butler's president, Bobby Fong ’73. A profile in the New York Times portrays Fong, one of the few …