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As the panelists in your roundtable discussion "Cities and Suburbs" cogently convey (January-February, page 54), more than a few suburbs now...
March-April 2000
The Eugenic Temptation
The full-page advertisement in the Harvard Crimson a year ago came as no surprise. The text was straightforward: Intelligent, Athletic Egg...
Yo-Yo Ma's Journeys
A warm, breezy day in July, and beneficent providence has set for me a sumptuous lunch overlooking God's own landscape near Tanglewood, on the...
In the Streets and in the Studio
Ben Shahn liked to tell the story of being introduced to someone as "Shahn the painter" and being asked if he was any relation to "Shahn the...
Earl Derr Biggers
I am quite sure that I never intended to travel the road of the mystery writer," wrote Earl Derr Biggers '07 for his twenty-fifth class reunion...
Deep Cravings
The bombshell dropped in 1976, when "The Natural History of Chipping" appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry. In their article, Norman...
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Wild Minds
In the summer of 1980, while doing primate research at a tourist spot in Florida, Marc D. Hauser had an unusual encounter. A female spider...
Longshots Can Win in the Schoolyard
When he was four, Raymond's family moved from Mexico to the United States. Everyone worked. The four children helped their mother deliver...
The Boy’s Dilemma
The idea that boys like to play with guns while girls prefer dolls is venerable. But in recent years, boys have started playing with real guns...
Seeds of Greatness
Of all the seed-bearing plants on earth, the angiosperms, or flowering plants, have been the most successful. There are 250,000 of them, as...
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Crimson Wrestlers Rising
The ascent of Harvard's wrestling program, as some colleges scrap theirs to reach gender equity in their sports offerings, owes much to the...
The New Medicine
Seeking to make the most of new scientific opportunities in an era of rising research costs and shifting income sources, Harvard Medical School...
The Finish Line
Harvard's university campaign, the most ambitious such effort ever in higher education, concluded December 31, five and a half years from its...
Expanding the Professoriate
Samuel Gompers, a founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor, succinctly summarized its aims as "More!" It is unlikely...
Orchid Peeping
An exhibition probing pollination strategies opened on Valentine's Day at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and will run through May 14...
Mental Health Services Examined
In an effort to provide Harvard students with better mental-health care--a more accessible and tightly coordinated network of services--a...
A Magnificent Acquisition
Piet Mondrian's Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow, and Red is now part of the University's art collections, thanks to a gift from the family...
Taking Care of Junior Professors
Having identified financial and other pressures on untenured professors, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Jeremy R. Knowles...
"Bright Line" at the Business School
Harvard Business School has prohibited faculty members from having a "financial interest" or "formal position" in enterprises launched, run, or...
Pay for Performance
Harvard Management Company's president, Jack R. Meyer, and its five best-performing portfolio managers earned compensation totaling $41.1...
Richard G. Heck Jr.
Philosopher Richard Heck earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Duke, studied philosophy at Oxford, and got his Ph.D. at MIT in 1991...
HIID, Dismantled
For many years, Harvard has moved gradually but consistently toward globalizing its mission and outreach, with new international programs in the...
Preserving Harvard’s large outdoor Henry Moore sculpture
The bronze Large Four Piece Reclining Figure by Henry Moore that has reclined on the grass in front of Lamont Library for almost 20 years is now...
University People
Doctor in the House Harvey V. Fineberg, Harvard’s provost, began a medical leave and underwent surgery December 16 for what was described...
Sharing the Wealth
For the second year in a row, the President and Fellows of Harvard College have authorized a larger-than-usual increase in the distribution from...
Quest for the Best
How to help academically distinguished, but economically and socially disadvantaged, high-school students succeed in college and later in life?...
The Faculty Weighs In, circa 1899
Whether a new millennium and century have arrived or notlet it passDean Jeremy R. Knowles made the last Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Brevia
Quitting Kirkland House Continuing a generational change among leaders of the undergraduate Houses, Kirkland master Donald H. Pfister and...
Memorial minute for Laurence Wylie, scholar of French civilization
As is its custom, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting of December 14, 1999, began with memorial minutes commemorating deceased colleagues...
Why Not.com
What surprises me most about senior year is how much it resembles freshman year--especially in the chronic questions that haunt conversations...
Killer Killar
Last year, the second most impressive thing about Joey Killar's season was how much of the time he spent not wrestling. Competing at 165...
Athletes of Winter
Women’s Hockey At midseason, the defending national champion Crimson stickwomen (13-2-2, 11-2-2 ECAC) retained their number-one ranking...
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
Harvard Calendar
SPECIAL. Dance yourself over to the annual CityStep show, featuring Cambridge fifth- and sixth-graders, on April 14 and 15 in Sanders Theatre...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
S-e-c-s Talk
And now for something completely different. Those readers who turned to this space in the previous issue found, under the headline Sensational...
Practice Makes Perfect
Get in shape for the national elections by doing your duty as a Harvard citizen first. Ballots listing candidates for Overseer and for elected...
Banner Day
"Return to Harvard Day," on Wednesday, April 19, offers alumni of all College classes, and this year's reunion classes, their spouses, and...
Passover Story
Few people find a mission while cleaning house, but that is what happened to Saul Touster ’46, J.D. ’48. One day in 1996, as he was...
"A Loomful of Hues"
Jeanne Heifetz ’81 didn’t become involved with weaving until she was 14, but remembers always being attracted to traditional...
Yesterday's News
1920 Thanks to the Endowment Fund campaign, President Lowell approves a new salary scale for faculty members under which full professors will...
Sun and Shade
When daylight-saving time returns on April 2, not a moment too soon, Harvardians emerging into the sunlight may wish to visit the restored...
Spherical Riches
Harvard's baseball collection consists of 274 balls in a massive case. The balls commemorate games won by College teams between 1865 and 1885...
