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A Notable Dean
The appointment of Thomas professor of government and sociology Theda Skocpol as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS)...
Brief biographical sketch of poet Elizabeth Bishop
By the time Elizabeth Bishop settled into her apartment on the Boston waterfront, in recently refurbished Lewis Wharf, it was 1974. She was 63...
Recruiting Redux
The Supreme Court is set to consider how military recruiting may be conducted on campuses when the armed forces’ “Don’t ask...
Memory Retrieved
Novelist and teacher of writing Nicholas Delbanco ’63 explores a box in the attic in one of nine essays, “In Defense of...
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AT ODDS I was dismayed to see the Faculty of Arts and Sciences mounting their protests against President Lawrence H. Summers’s suggestion...
Largiantur Donatores
The University had received $493 million in donations through May 31 of the fiscal year, according to University Treasurer James F. Rothenberg...
An American in Paris
More students are venturing abroad, for term or summer study or other experiences, with the College’s encouragement. The first of two...
Honoris Causa
Two women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard’s 354th Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced them to the...
Where the Students Are
At each Commencement, Harvard confers 6,500 or so degrees, on everyone from College students who have navigated their undergraduate years to...
Deep into Sleep
Not long ago, a psychiatrist in private practice telephoned associate professor of psychiatry Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist...
Yesterday's News
1915 One hundred-plus Harvard men and their families sail from New York City via the Panama Canal to San Francisco to attend the annual meeting...
Off the Shelf
Miss Leavitt’s Stars: The Untold Story of the Forgotten Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe, by George Johnson (W.W. Norton...