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ART MUSEUMS IN A NEW WORLD As aformer student in Harvard's fine arts department and now a professorof art history, I eagerly read Janet...
November-December 2002
An American Empire?
Only a year and a week separated the events of September 11, 2001, when Americans felt so vulnerable, from a presidential declaration in which...
Anne Hutchinson
On June 2, 1922, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts received from the Anne Hutchinson Memorial Association and the State Federation of Women's...
The Great Global Experiment
During a recent Alaska study cruise cosponsored by the Harvard Museum of Natural History, James J. McCarthy stopped at several islands with...
Castling in the Square
The Harvard Chess Club battles the clock and the competition by Paul Hoffman On the last Sunday in October, last year, four members of the...
On the Road with Death
In a world where buses are "flying coffins" and "moving morgues" and pedestrians should tremble, pulblic-health experts take on a neglected...
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
The Ultimate Blasts from the Past
In the 1960s, the United States secretly launched several satellites to check for illegal nuclear-weapons testing in space. Equipped with...
Balkanizing the Web?
Originally, the World Wide Web was envisioned as exactly that—a global vehicle for the unimpeded flow of information, without barriers...
Chiseled Farewells
In Rome's placid Protestant Cemetery, the remains of poet John Keats rest in a nameless grave that bears an epitaph he wrote himself: "Here...
John Harvard's Journal University news
Hushed Voices
Sacred and secular, the University's observance of September 11 proved both a moving memorial to the thousands who lost their lives to...
Raised Voices
Six days after helping to bring the community together at Harvard's observance of September 11 (see preceding page), President Lawrence H...
Steady State
Diversification pays. So do effective investment disciplines. Those are the two signal lessons from recent Harvard Management Company (HMC)...
Watertown-Gown
Harvard has reached an agreement to pay $480 million over 52 years to neighboring Watertown, Massachusetts, where in May 2001 the University...
Curriculum Czar
Propelled by the cataclysm of World War II—and a half-dozen years of prior study of the undergraduate curriculum—a faculty committee...
Capitalism Campaign
Harvard Business School (HBS), established in 1908, on September 21 formally launched its first capital campaign. The timing might not seem...
Jonathan and Christine Seidman
As youngsters they were far apart—he spent much of his youth in Ghana, she grew up on Long Island—but they met at Harvard, married in...
Military Recruiters Get Official Welcome
For more than 20 years, military recruiters have been banned from working through the Law School's Office of Career Services because of the...
Veritas Values
Prompted by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies—the group formed in response to the "living wage...
A Slightly Grayer Faculty
The unique institution of tenure gave higher education a loophole when the 1970 Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) was amended in 1986...
Rethinking the Divinity School
"The university is very healthy as a whole. The immensely successful Rudenstine presidency has placed us in an excellent position to face...
A Cluster of (Scholarly) Stars
The Radcliffe Institute, spreading its wings as a center for advanced study affiliated with a major research university, is extending the reach...
Faculty Perk Sheet
A pdf of the Faculty Perk Sheet by Andy Borowitz '80 is available for download...
Messenger from Pakistan
Amid what administrators and police said was the heaviest security ever for a Harvard speaker, Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, told a...
University People
Robert D. Reischauer Harvard News Office Familiar Fellow Robert D. Reischauer '63 was appointed to the Harvard Corporation (The...
Elite Educators
When last seen, statistician Richard J. Light, Gale professor of education, had published his findings on what makes for an effective...
Three Maestros Talk Music
Conductors are known for their long lives—Toscanini, for example, lived to be 89. Three Harvard conductors—James Yannatos, Tom...
Brevia
Freshman to Freshmen William C. Kirby Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Welcoming his first College entering class as dean of...
Crimson, White, and Blue
On a campus steeped in lore and history, perhaps no history is more visibly honored than that of Harvard's warriors. Since the earliest days of...
Taut and Suspenseful
In a shootout between the defending champions of the Ivy and Patriot Leagues, the football team fell to Lehigh, 36-35, in the final minute of...
Fall Sports
Field Hockey The stickwomen (5-1, 3-0 Ivy) got off to a fast start, knocking off Penn, Brown, and Yale in their first three Ivy contests...
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
Harvard Calendar
MUSIC. Memorial Church hosts the annual Christmas Carol Services on December 15 at 5 p.m. and December 16 at 8 p.m. For details, call...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Working on the Railroad
David L. Gunn '59, M.B.A. '64, has always been a railroader. Growing up in a Boston suburb, his family's vacations usually involved getting on...
Alumni News
Aloian Winners Established in 1988 to honor the late David Aloian '49, a former executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association...
Yesterday's News
1922 Sports devotee R.S. Hale, A.B. 1891, suggests to the Bulletin that there be "two Harvard football teams," instead of one, noting that when...
Artificial Wants
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Josiah Quincy, A.B. 1790, LL.D. 1824, drafted the following...
