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...justify weekend Facebook photos, but many do not know that these words originated in an article about Puritan funeral services by a University of New Hampshire grad student who is now an accomplished Harvard professor. Indeed, Pulitzer Prize-winning Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the History Department’s 300th Anniversary University Professor and the current president of the American Historical Association, recently received the John F. Kennedy Medal of the Massachusetts Historical Society, becoming the first woman to do so. FM got the chance to speak with her about her latest award, her career as an historian, and her love...
Some names benefit from a temporary faddishness. Selena was languishing at 780th place in 1990, but rose to 300th by 1994 as the fame of Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla grew. The name vaulted to No. 91 after Quintanilla's murder in 1995 but has since settled back to 352. Diego has enjoyed a similar bump, going from 186th place to 68th in the last decade, perhaps due to the popular boy sidekick in the ubiquitous Dora the Explorer cartoons. Designer Paloma Picasso may be giving a similar - if subtler - bump to my own daughter's name, which has gone from...
...Doris K. Goodwin, the presidential scholar and Roosevelt biographer who delivered the memorial lecture at the benefit dinner for the restoration project, said that when Roosevelt returned to Harvard to deliver Harvard’s 300th Commencement address in 1936, he was not well received by the Wall Street barons in the audience. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...student curator, called Digging Veritas “the beginning of a lot of opportunities for students.” The digs began in 2005 with the help of faculty in the anthropology department and the Harvard University Native American Program to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Indian College, an oft-neglected component of Harvard’s earliest campus. The college, which was located near where Matthews Hall now stands, was intended to encourage Native youth in the pursuit of “knowledge and godliness,” as Harvard’s first charter instructed...
...from Cahow gave the Crimson a 3-2 victory and the tournament crown.All the momentum seemed to be on Harvard’s side. The team easily defeated Dartmouth, 5-1, in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament, completing an undefeated season at Bright Hockey Center.That win, the 300th career victory for Stone, earned the Crimson a trip to Duluth, Minn. to play Wisconsin in the national semifinals.Unfortunately, this fairytale didn’t have the happiest of endings. Harvard fell, 4-1, in Minnesota, as the Badgers handed the Crimson a season-ending loss for the second consecutive...