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The Law of Dissimilars

Humans have a natural propensity to distrust the “other.” The classic social-psychology experiment in which individuals are randomly...

Olympic Fever

“Harvard in the Olympics,” an alumni college offered by the HAA and the Harvard Varsity Club, features alumni discussing their...

Elsewhere

Since 2001, College students’ international experiences during their Harvard years—formal study abroad, research, work or public...

Off the Glass, On the Ice

Basketball With a 71-50 dismembering of New Hampshire, the men (5-0) became only the third Crimson squad in the last 47 years to go undefeated...

Courses of Study

Perusing the course catalog for first-year Harvard Medical School (HMS) students, Mark Hanudel felt that “Living with Life-Threatening...

War, and Women

In November 1945, the International Military Tribunal began its prosecution of Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg, Germany. Nuremberg and...

The Middle Class on the Precipice

During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure...

Maine Delights

Arrows sits on a wooded country road about half a mile from the coastal town of Ogunquit. Eighty percent of the food served is grown in gardens...

Word to Live By

Hiram S. Hunn ’21 came to Cambridge in 1931 to celebrate his tenth reunion. In Harvard Yard he discovered workmen razing Appleton Chapel...

Comings and Goings

Harvard clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual gatherings. Following is a list of University-affiliated speakers appearing at local...

An Unconstrained Curriculum

The College curriculum of the future has begun to come into focus, as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this autumn started to discuss...

Brevia

Another Nobelist Thomas C. Schelling University of Maryland Joining Mallinckrodt professor of physics Roy J. Glauber ’45, Ph.D...