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Crimson bounce Big Red, 27-0 Junior quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick completed 12 of 17 passes for two touchdowns and rushed for another to shut out Cornell this past Saturday (Oct. 11)…

Sophomore goalkeeper Ryan Johnson registered a career-high 10 saves on Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 14) to preserve a 3-0 shutout against visiting Holy Cross (1-8-1). With the win, Johnson – ranked second in the Ivy League in the number of goals allowed per game (.84) – earns his third shutout of the season. Still unbeaten at…

Im a spiritual person, a Christian, but Im not what you would call orthodox. Im a preachers kid. My dad was the minister of a small, evangelical church on the south side of Atlanta. I learned how to pray as a kid, but I found that it didnt work for me. What does work for…

The Robert Toigo Foundation, a leading organization supporting the advancement of exceptional minority business degree students and alumni within the finance industry, recently announced the selection of 13 Harvard Business School (HBS) students as Toigo Fellows. The new fellows include Schelton Assoumou, Tchintcia Barros, Eugene Chiu, Jason Davis, Jaimee Fomer, Christopher Johnson, Leroy Kennedy, Kristal…

A puddle left by an overnight rainstorm is pierced by the image of the Memorial Church steeple appearing behind Sever Hall.

Frosch receives NAE award The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) recently presented senior research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government Robert Frosch with the Arthur M. Bueche Award. Frosch…

K through 12 tutors needed Cambridge School Volunteers Inc. (CSV) – a private, nonprofit organization that recruits, trains, and places volunteers in Cambridge Public Schools – is recruiting people of…

Brina Sheeman Shackelford, a fifth-year graduate student at the Medical School, died last weekend in a car accident in New Hampshire. Shackelford was admired by those who knew her as a truly bright and compassionate friend and colleague. The Shackelford family would like to honor her commitment to graduate work in the sciences by requesting…

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

Oct. 17, 1640 – The Great and General Court grants Harvard the revenues of the Boston-Charlestown ferry, which plies the shortest route between Boston and Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Medford, and…

In the event of divorce – statistically, the reality for nearly half the marriages in America – a prenuptial agreement has the potential to save the divorcing couple anguish, arguments, and thousands of dollars. It may represent an exit agreement far closer to their wishes than the court-ordered divorce. A good prenuptial agreement can even…

Science let its hair down in Harvards Sanders Theatre Thursday night (Oct. 2), laughing at its own foibles as it skewered dubious but real scientific achievements through the awarding of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes.

Harvard University has been awarded a $10 million Center of Excellence grant to establish the Harvard Center for Chemical Methodologies and Library Development (HCMLD). The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the grant.

The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations will host two veterans of World War II, one black and one white, as honorary guests on Oct. 16. The remarkable story of these two men – both former U.S. Army Air-Corps pilots – has recently come to light through reports from NBC News and the History…

Wine is in Paul Malagrifas blood. His grandfather, an Italian immigrant, made wine in his East Boston basement. I always said that I was going to carry on the family tradition, says Malagrifa, who has been playing with wine for nearly two decades.

Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan (above right) and Byrne Professor of Administrative Law Emeritus Clark Byse unveiled a portrait of Archibald Cox, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus and the first Watergate special prosecutor, Wednesday (Oct. 8). In addition to his long and celebrated career as a teacher and scholar, Archibald Cox was able…

Oct. 7, 1642 – By order of the Great and General Court, a reorganized Board of Overseers becomes a permanent part of College governance. Oct. 14, 1763 – At the…

A pedestrian waits for the traffic to abate before crossing Massachusetts Avenue from the Holyoke Center to the Yard.

Beatrice Blyth Whiting, a leading anthropologist of childhood and professor emerita of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, died on Sept. 29 of pneumonia at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. She was 89.

A new solar power installation on top of Harvard Business Schools Shad Hall has made the School a renewable energy pioneer and, supporters said, provide a concrete case study of the affordability of clean solar energy.

The secular and the divine at Harvard, once so intertwined as to be indistinguishable, have drifted apart throughout the Universitys history. It was, in part, concern for things divine that motivated Harvards founders, who anticipated the inevitable demise of the colonys English-educated clergy and dread[ed] to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches.

Nearly 400 Allston-Brighton residents and their families joined the Harvard Crimson at the 14th annual Allston-Brighton Family Football Day on Saturday (Oct. 4). Sponsored by the Office of Government Affairs and the Department of Athetics, the event offers Allston-Brighton football fans, young and old, complementary tickets and lunch at a football game each season.

With two such highly explosive football teams, Saturdays (Oct. 4) match-up between Harvard and Northeastern had all the makings of a scoring free-for-all. After all, the cross-town showdown featured two of the nations most offensively potent teams in Division IAA football (lest you forget, the Huskies racked up 72 points in their season opener, while…

Gender and race shared the stage at a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study conference marking the 60th anniversary of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America Friday (Oct. 2), a nod to the Schlesingers considerable holdings of African-American womens papers. The daylong event, Gender, Race, and Rights in African…

Hollywood came to Cambridge Monday night (Oct. 6), as the area premiere of the Boston-bred film Mystic River festooned Sanders Theatre with more glitz than is customary on a weeknight in Harvard Square. But at the event, a benefit for the venerable Harvard Film Archive (HFA) on its 25th anniversary, Boston and Cambridge outshone the…