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For many who choose to spend their undergraduate years at this institution - and even for those who do not - Harvard shines as the paragon of academic learning and research. However, the reputation of social life in and around Cambridge is generally less celebrated.
By Kevin Koo in News

2. Houghton Bridge is falling down (falling down, falling down)
Published Thursday, November 20, 2003

After sixty-two years, building codes have done what the 1915 stipulations of Eleanor Elkins Widener could not do - remove the bridge connecting the Widener Library stacks to Houghton Library. Nancy L. Cline, Roy E. Larsen Librarian of Harvard College, said that it became apparent during the ongoing renovation of Widener that the bridge spanning the libraries caused a safety and security problem.
By Steve Lee in News

3. Off The Wall
Published Thursday, November 20, 2003

Harvard's saga of Israeli-Palestinian activism gained another chapter last Wednesday as a coalition of Palestine supporters spearheaded by the Boston Area Working Group on the Wall (BAWGW) brought the "International Week of Protests Against the Wall" movement to Harvard Square.
By Steve Lee in News

4. Sleeping with the enemy
Published Thursday, November 20, 2003

Embedded reporting brought us news from the front lines. It brought us tales of individual heroism. It brought us shocking stories of innocent families being accidentally killed. On November 12, a panel of reporters, correspondents, a professor at the Kennedy School of Government, and a retired Air Force general gathered at the John F.
By David Griffin in News

5. Getting to the promised land...and back
Published Thursday, November 20, 2003

Sure, you're excited about The Game. Sure, it's go-ing to be a blast. We're all just going to go down to New Haven and party all night and be raucous and KICK SOME YALIE ASS! Wait, back up. That paragraph has some problems. More specifically, it contains phrases that imply some serious logistical questions that need to be answered.
By Claire Le Goues in News

6. The History of The Game
Published Thursday, November 20, 2003

This Saturday is the 120th edition of the Harvard Yale game-"The Game," if you will. Harvard has been victorious in the past two match-ups. November 13, 1875 was the date of the first Harvard-Yale football "game," if you can call it that. It was closer in form to rugby than to the sport we now call football, and what actually occurred was a thorough thrashing of Yale.
By Jim Murrett in Sports

7. One Last Chance
Published Thursday, November 20, 2003

It's ironic, but not surprising: students at Harvard are all gearing up to go to New Haven for "The Game" just one week after "The Season" ended right here in Cambridge. That's the way it's been for this year's football team, whose time expired six yards away from a possible tying touchdown against the now-undisputed champs of the Ivy League, the Penn Quakers.
By Christopher Re in Sports

8. Harvard-Yale By the Numbers
Published Thursday, November 20, 2003

120: This year marks the 120th time Harvard and Yale have faced off in one of the biggest rivalries in college football. 12: Number of books written about The Game. Harvard fans, feel free to read these to your less literate Yale buddies. 7: National championships in football won by Harvard in school history.
By Colin Twomey in Sports

9. Too Little, Too Late
Published Thursday, November 20, 2003

All right, readers. On the count of three, we're all going to heave a collective sigh of disappointment. Ready? One, two...yeah, that's right. Can't you just sense the frustration? Now you know how several thousand Harvard football supporters felt last Saturday as they watched the Crimson (6-3, 3-3 Ivy) blow their last chance for a share in the Ivy League title, losing to the undefeated University of Pennsylvania Quakers.
By Becky Hammer in Sports

10. Dear Harvard...
Published Thursday, November 20, 2003

The whole Yale-Harvard rivalry is well past its 300th year (it must have started long before we invented football), and it's showing signs of age. In fact, the populations of both schools are displaying a remarkable disinclination to keep up with the times, settling into tired routines of snobbery and insipidness.
By Dan Feder, Senior Editor of the Yale Herald in Sports