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Rebound & Transition
Harvard has never won an Ivy League basketball championship. Changing that legacy, which dates from 1955 (the first year of play in the league)...
University People
One for the Books Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Robert C. Darnton Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Sidney Verba Robert C. Darnton...
“The public is growing restive”
President Derek Bok used his “last occasion to report to the alumni” to “share some parting reflections on the challenges for...
Debtor Nation
Consumerism is as American as cherry pie. Plasma TVs, iPods, granite countertops: you name it, we’ll buy it. To finance the national...
The Family Silver
One could call these ceremonial spoons the “family silver of Northwest Coast nobility,” says Bill Holm, curator emeritus at the...
Better than the Bard
Scott Miller ’86, the founder and artistic director of New Line Theatre in St. Louis, celebrates the innovation and adventurousness of...
Harvard's Long View
The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on Commencement day were 98-year-old Frances Pass Addelson ’30, of Brookline...
Fantastic!
The recent announcement that Lene Vestergaard Hau had successfully changed light to matter, and then back into light, evokes the magic of...
Advising Adventures
In the course of overhauling the College curriculum, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) deferred undergraduates’ selection of a...
Developing Deans, Calendar Consensus
Beyond what he characterized last October as a “formidable agenda” of substantive work, Derek Bok pursued less publicized ways to...
Commencement Confetti
EDUCATED MEN AND WOMEN On Commencement day, Thursday, June 7, Harvard conferred 6,871 degrees and 138 certificates. The College granted 1,694 of...