COVER ARTICLE A prominent historian calls on the University to revisit its past--and to begin seeing itself whole by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Humanity will be older and more urban in the next century. Will we also be richer, better educated, and wiser stewards of the environment? by Joel E. Cohen Successful cartoons aren't just funny. An exhibition of drawings by New Yorker artists reveals much about changing gender roles and social attitudes Will it work? William Julius Wilson cautions about the effects of a momentous change in social policy Brief life of Galileo's daughter: 1600-1634 by Dava Sobel Controversies over performance-testing, concern over students' readiness for employment, and broad questions about the purpose of education fuel debate about public schooling. A Harvard Magazine roundtable Memorial Hall's new hat, a Campaign celebration, the University embraces Boston, international developments, endowment earnings, compensating casual workers, campus and Cambridge neighbors, genomics guide, Law School long-term planning, Radcliffe regears, closing the cyclotron, directing the Divinity School, a museum of modern art envisioned, clinical queries in medicine, the "Undergraduate" lost and found in Boston, sterling stick-work, first football games, and a fall sports review Also, check out our current Classifieds, or browse our archives of issues going back to May-June 1996