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Harvard continues to be an acute embarrassment to me, but unfortunately not to itself. It will take my beloved College 20 years to overcome the...
May-June 2006
Governing Harvard
Harvard, founded in 1636, has by law been formally governed by a Board of Overseers since 1642, and by the Corporation since 1650. The last...
A Melting World
Photographs by David Arnold and H. Bradford Washburn The breathtaking aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers shot by H. Bradford...
Fueling Our Future
Our demand for energy, on which we depend for health and prosperity, rises all the time: oil and natural gas to heat our homes; electricity for...
Francis James Child
Francis James Child, A.B. 1846, was a model of nineteenth-century academic achievement. Named Harvard’s Boylston professor of rhetoric and...
A Shift in the Created Order
Adapted by the author from the Convocation Address she delivered to the Divinity School community on September 19, 2005, at the opening of the...
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Zen Brains
One day, mental exercise may join physical exercise on Americans’ to-do lists and among their doctors’ recommendations. So says a...
The $2-Trillion War
War is messy, and putting a price tag on a war that stretches over years, with consequences lasting decades longer, is a staggering task. Yet in...
Of Mice and Hands
"Computer use does not cause carpal tunnel syndrome.” Moreover, “no one has proven that the disease is made worse by work on a...
John Harvard's Journal University news
A Presidency’s Early End
After five years of frequent controversy on matters of fundamental academic and intellectual substance, and the style in which those issues were...
Weighing In
The resignation of President Lawrence H. Summers became grist for a torrent of commentary worldwide, much of it highly political, even...
The Interim Agenda
Derek Bok, Harvard’s president from 1971 to 1991, resumes those duties on July 1 on an interim basis until a permanent successor to...
Precedent-Setting Presidential Search
The search for a successor to President Lawrence H. Summers will involve expanded outreach to the Harvard community. In a March 30 news release...
The Way Forward
What can Harvard learn from the administration of Lawrence H. Summers—cut short of its expected duration, and short of achieving many of...
Bolstering Business
The first Harvard Business School (HBS) capital campaign, launched publicly in the fall of 2002, ended on December 31, having raised at least 20...
Aid Augmented
To make attending the College more affordable for lower- and middle-income families, Harvard has extended the financial-aid initiative it...
Kevin Eggan
Kevin Eggan Photograph by Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Last year Kevin Eggan was a Junior Fellow at Harvard. He met developmental...
Gender Gains
In the wake of last year’s upheaval over appointing women to professorships in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the challenges...
University People
Commencement Speaker Jim Lehrer Courtesy of WSIU-TV Jim Lehrer, executive editor and anchor of PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer...
Yesterday’s News
1926 The annual picture-taking of freshmen and seniors in front of Widener breaks up when the former, ordered off the steps by the latter...
Scholars’ Haven
Noel Twagiramungu won’t speak about the assassination attempt—the event that drove him from Rwanda remains under investigation. Two...
Military Recruiting Upheld
The Supreme Court ruled on March 6 that the federal government can cut off funding to universities that limit or ban military recruiting on...
Women's Center
At the end of a year that has seen various plans for the College (including the curricular review) mark time or unravel, matters are quietly...
The Schools’ Size
Harvard’s schools vary not only in their mission and in the composition of their faculties and student bodies, but also in financial...
"A Unique Experience"
Even as a first-year graduate student, I knew that Aldous Huxley’s novels would be my dissertation subject. Harvard didn’t share my...
Brevia
Recent news from around campus
The Busy-ness School
“Is there no one in this House who plays basketball?” the e-mail reads. I feel a twinge of guilt. I signed up to play intramural...
Up Three Times
It’s one of the least understood, and most difficult, events in a track and field meet. Yet the essence of the triple jump is simple: jump...
Track Coach Haggerty Retires
Frank Haggerty ’68, head coach of men’s and women’s cross-country and track and field since 1982 and assistant coach for seven...
Spring Lax Snapshots
Lacrosse The men’s team (4-2, 1-0 Ivy) took down Penn, 13-8, in their Ivy opener and captured a thrilling triple-overtime 8-7 win over...
Swashbuckling National Champions
The Harvard men’s and women’s fencing teams combined to win the NCAA national championship, the first in program history, in Houston...
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Love in the Last Act
Some days it went like this: Lil: We're looking at a three-year-old. Things that people are doing for us. How do you feel about it? Elinor: I...
The Candidates
This spring, five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board will be chosen by alumni...
Harvard@Home
The University’s on-line learning initiative has released two new segments. One highlights the fall 2005 conference on women and war, the...
Comings and Goings
University clubs offer a variety of stimulating gatherings. Here is a list of Harv-ard-affiliated speakers appearing at local clubs this spring...
Birthday Bash
Krokodiloes old and new celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of Harvard’s oldest a cappella group with a concert on March 17. Below...
Wolffs on the Diamond
Father-son parallels aren’t rare, but Rick Wolff ’73 and John Wolff ’06 have followed the same course into professional...
Yet More Expansion?
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Has Harvard staked out another new campus? On February 2...
