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Young athletes from all over Boston converged on Harvard on a chilly Saturday in February. They took instruction from Harvard coaches and student-athletes. They labored and sweated, pushing themselves to refine their skills in soccer, basketball, volleyball, water polo, softball and field hockey. By day’s end, the athletes – nearly 100 girls in all– had…

When the quintessential master of ceremonies took the stage to accept the Pudding Pot at the Hasty Pudding Theatre on Thursday night, he got exactly what he bargained for. Six-time Academy Awards show host Billy Crystal was cajoled into roping a mock cow, expressing his feelings for a pig, and acting out the calf-birthing scene…

Mention the word “studio,” and one generally thinks of an artist’s garret, preferably one with northern light. At the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), however, a studio has no walls, and its dimensions can span vast distances. It is a method of teaching that constitutes the core of a Harvard design education. Illustrating this…

Beginning in March, the Harvard University Art Museums will present the first in a series of exhibitions showcasing a decade of additions to their collections. More than 475 works will be featured, including masterpieces of Asian and Islamic art, old master and contemporary prints and drawings, paintings, sculptures, calligraphy, and photographs. The series will cover…

His Holiness Bhakti Bhavana Vishnu Maharaj, a Hindu monk and swami of the Gaudiya Vaishnava lineage, will give a lecture titled “Gaudiya Vaishnavism: The Spiritual Science of Vedic India” on Friday, Feb. 25, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in Harvard Hall 201. The event is sponsored by the Harvard Extension School Chaitanya Vaishnava Society, a…

Anna Portnoy had come halfway around the world to witness the birth of a goddess. It was a difficult delivery. As a junior concentrating in the Study of Religion, Portnoy had been looking for a topic for her honors thesis. Neelima Shukla-Bhatt, a graduate student who knew of her interest in Hindu goddesses, pointed out…

The Harvard Native American Program and the Askwith Education Forum at the Graduate School of Education will present artist Melanie Yazzie in a lecture and slide show titled “Holding the Truth: The Personal and Political in ArtxD3 on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 6 p.m. in the Gutman Conference Center, Gutman Library. Preceding the lecture, Yazzie,…

One of the grand mysteries of language concerns the nature of vowels and consonants. Are they really different entities processed separately by the brain, or just artificial labels developed for convenience? Researchers at Harvard University and their collaborators in Rome believe they have found the answer. Vowels are more sonorous than consonants, that is, they…

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Harvard sophomore Jennifer Botterill’s overtime goal gave Harvard (15-4-3) a 4-3 win over Northeastern in the championship game of the 22nd-annual women’s Beanpot Tournament at the Bright Hockey Center. Botterill, cutting toward the left post, took a feed from linemate Tammy Shewchuk ’01, and one-timed the puck past goalie Erika Silva for the game-winner. It…

At noon on a very wet Valentine’s Day, a lively group of seventh graders from the Grover Cleveland Middle School in Dorchester entered a lecture hall in Byerly Hall to meet with President Neil L. Rudenstine. Their visit was part of a program called GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs), which…

It¹s a yearly tradition for members of the Harvard Neighbors Quilting Group to make quilts for the children’s ward of Cambridge City Hospital and present them on Valentine’s Day.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 12. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden Street. Feb. 6: A bag was stolen from Memorial Hall; an individual later found in possession of the bag was arrested. Feb. 7: Personal property…

Journalist Helen Thomas to Speak at Law School The Harvard Law School Forum will present speaker Helen Thomas, “dean” of the White House Press Corps and UPI-Washington Bureau chief, on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 7 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom. Ellen Goodman ’63, associate editor and columnist for the Boston Globe, will introduce Thomas, who…

Harvard’s Memorial Church will host the 101st annual William Beldon Noble Lectures, which will be given by the Right Rev. John S. Spong, on March 6, 7, and 8 at 8 p.m. Spong, an author and theologian and the former Episcopal Bishop of Newark, N.J., will give the series of lectures, titled, “Developing a New…

Rev. Gomes Delivers Sermon at University of Cambridge The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes delivered one of six formal “University Sermons” in the Church of St. Mary the Great at the University of Cambridge, England, on Sunday, Feb. 6. Gomes delivered the sermon, “An Act of Defiance and the Yearning for Something More,” in his…

Hoping to foster international good will and peacekeeping, more than 2,000 college students from all over the world will gather in Boston this week to participate in Harvard’s National Model United Nations conference (HNMUN). The annual event simulates the hard work and diplomacy that characterizes the real United Nations. Over the course of four days,…

A memorial service for Perry Townsend Rathbone ’33, will be held Friday, Feb. 25, at 4:00 pm in Memorial Church, the Reverend Peter Gomes presiding. Rathbone was the director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1954-72, advisor to the council of the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research, 1953-58, and a member of…

In 1979, Harvard’s 40 Iranian students underwent an overnight transformation. From being nationals of a “friendly” country, under the Shah, they became suddenly suspect when an Islamic fundamentalist regime swept into office and radical students took over the U.S. embassy in Tehran, touching off the Iran Hostage Crisis. Smoothing the way for those students –…

The Newton-based company, Imagitas, has established a new summer fellowship program at the Kennedy School of Government. The program will pay a stipend of $7,000 each to ten to fifteen KSG students who will work for the federal government over the summer. Imagitas is a marketing and communications firm which works to enhance the public’s…

Black students at Harvard Medical School, in conjunction with the Office of Human Resources, Student Affairs, the Joint Committee on the Status of Women and other student groups, invite all to be a part of the celebration of black arts at an event called FABRIC at 5 p.m. on Feb. 24 at the MEC Atrium…

A southern African nation that has been decimated by a quick-spreading subtype of the AIDS virus is now ground zero in the battle against it. Dedication ceremonies for the new Botswana-Harvard HIV Reference Laboratory, a joint project sponsored by the Ministry of Health of Botswana and the Harvard AIDS Institute, were held last week in…

Sheila Burke, executive dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, has accepted a post as Undersecretary for American Museums, Programs and National Outreach at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. She will remain in her current position at the Kennedy School until mid-June and will continue to be involved in the Kennedy School, including serving…

The front-runner in this year’s presidential campaign is no one at all, says a new survey conducted by the Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. According to a weekly national survey by the Vanishing Voter Project at the Shorenstein Center’s Washington, D.C. office, a full two-thirds of Americans…

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is tackling the controversial issue of genetically engineered food by hosting a one-day conference titled, “Genetically Modified Foods: Should You Be Concerned?” Co-sponsored by the Radcliffe Seminars and Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust, the conference, scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 12, will convene international experts to present a range of…