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STAY-AT-HOME PARENTS As a student and professor at Harvard for more than 14 years, I am well acquainted with our institution's emphasis on...
May-June 2003
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Living History
We create ourselves out of the stories we tell about our lives, stories that impose purpose and meaning on experiences that often seem random...
"The Infinitude of the Private Man"
Until age 30, he did nothing to distinguish himself from respectable mediocrity. He graduated in the exact middle of the 59-member Harvard class...
The Purely Pragmatic University
American universities face exceptional opportunities and exceptional risks. Their research is needed more than ever, now that new scientific...
Conquest of the Air
Orville Wright's historic first flight lasted just 12 seconds. The Wright Flyer traveled 120 feet, a skip across the sand at Kitty Hawk's Kill...
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Theory of the "Marathon Man"
You're watching the Boston Marathon, awestruck, as always, by the runners' strength, endurance, and determination. Mile after mile, the elite...
Stars, Bulls, and Bears
Picture an investor trying to decide which mutual fund will make the most of her retirement savings. As she reads prospectuses, the fine print...
Gravity's Riddle
Ever since the fabled apple fell before Isaac Newton, gravity has posed enigmas. Along with electromagnetism and the strong and weak forces that...
The Price of Slavery
Several high-profile lawsuits filed recently in this country are seeking redress for slavery and other racial wrongs, focusing national...
John Harvard's Journal University news
Deconstructing the College Deanship
Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean William C. Kirby is creating a new structure to manage undergraduate life at Harvard. He expects to...
Undergraduate Education Overseers
The committees charged with leading the Faculty of Arts and Sciences review of the undergraduate curriculum (see "College Studies...
Affirmative Amicus
Continuing a long tradition of University leadership on diversity in admissions, Harvard filed an amicus curiae brief in the University of...
Lindsay Waters
Lindsay Waters Photograph by Jim Harrison Lindsay Waters is an uncommon bird. He is both the executive editor for the humanities of...
CFO for Tighter Times
The University's fiscal affairs are now in the hands of Ann E. Berman, who was appointed vice president for finance and chief financial officer...
Cutting Costs
With budgets tightening around Harvard (see the profile of new financial vice president Ann E. Berman), President Lawrence H. Summers has put...
Being "of Harvard"
One year after the release of The Women's Guide to Harvard comes The Black Guide to Life at Harvard, compiled by the publications chairs of the...
Pillars of the Economy
As deteriorating local-government finances collide with expanding — and property-tax-exempt — campuses, Boston-area research...
Speak Memory
"Here I am, an old man in a dry month,/Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain," said T.S. Eliot '10 into the microphone. He was giving a...
Stemming the Applications Flood
Harvard College will henceforth require that early-action applicants for admission not apply early elsewhere. Students admitted early to...
Grade Deflation
Jawboning works. That's the import of a letter to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) from Benedict H. Gross, dean of undergraduate...
Stage One
Two years ago, Emily Knapp '03 was slated to be the assistant director for a production of Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown, which the...
Brevia
Global Perspective At a time of war, shifting international alliances, and reassessment of the gains from "globalization" of the world...
Finding Fuller
I've got a crush on Hank Fuller — and who can blame me? Toby "Hank" Fuller Jr. worked his way up from the junior-varsity football...
Diamonds for Tiffany
Last year's Ivy League Player of the Year, Whitton hits for average, power, and RBIs Photograph by Jim Harrison Late in the season last...
Quick at the Plate
It came down to an esophagus-and-esophagus finish, but with friends cheering him on, Ian Walker '03 swallowed up the lead of a chomping Eagle...
Winter Sports
The icewomen (30-3-1 overall, 15-0-1 ECAC) skated one of their best teams ever, and were ranked first in the nation for most of the year. They...
The Senior Marshals
Photograph by Stu Rosner The senior marshals, looking ahead to Commencement 2003, are: (clockwise from top left) first marshal...
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Harvard Calendar
SPECIAL. The annual ArtsFirst festival, showcasing more than 200 student performances of music, dance, and drama most of them free and...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Climbing the Hill
In the fall of 2001, students supporting a "living wage" for Harvard's janitors and other low-paid employees held rallies to keep the pressure...
Hooray for Harvardwood
Alumni in Hollywood rolled out the red carpet for 14 undergraduates who flew to Tinseltown during intersession for "Harvardwood 101,...
Vote Now
Vote NowTo be counted, all votes for Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association elected directors must be returned by noon on May 30. Results of...
HAA News
Comings and Goings Local Harvard clubs host numerous lectures and social gatherings throughout the year. What follows is a list of some of the...
Learned Linguist
A Nevada humanities award presented recently to William H. Jacobsen Jr. '53 recognized his contribution to the state's "living history."...
Yesterday's News
1923 Samuel M. Scott, A.B. 1886, questions "the rapid increase in membership" at the College and its impact on quality and efficiency. Scott...
Athletes' Adviser
Amelia Noel '92 discovered her career over a meal in Leverett House, when she realized that she enjoyed helping her athlete friends navigate...
Crimson Coincidence
Orville Wright's historic first flight lasted just 12 seconds. The Wright Flyer traveled 120 feet, a skip across the sand at Kitty Hawk's Kill...
