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Alumni will choose five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) in annual elections this...

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Commencement VoicesThe Harvard Alumni Association’s guest speaker on Commencement afternoon, June 9, will be actor John A. Lithgow...

Yesterday's News

1925 The Associated Harvard Clubs’ Committee on Service to the University suggests that descendants of Harvard graduates be given...

Public Health Research on Airborne Pollution

How epidemiology, engineering, and experiment finger fine particles as airborne killers

by Jonathan Shaw

Chapter & Verse

Alon Ferency requests the source of a quotation that runs, roughly, “Oh life! That we would die a little each day, rather than live all at...

Canine Mouthpiece

Interviewing dogs can be a challenge, but fortunately Watson and Cricket have e-mail. Q: If you were recuperating in a hospital, who would you...

by Christopher Reed

A Painting with "Legs"

Like the poems Emily Dickinson stored in her attic, or John Steinbeck’s repeatedly rejected early manuscripts, one of America’s...

Working it Out

The senior-year job hunt began as many do: with the purchasing of a suit at the end of the summer. Mine was a black, pinstripe ensemble that my...

by Amelia E. Lester

Humanist at Harvard

Finding Humanism listed among the 26 religions represented on the Board of Ministry at Harvard may seem curious, but Humanist chaplain Thomas...

A Thumb on the Scale

In February 2004, when Harvard allotted an additional $2 million per year in scholarship funds for undergraduates from families with incomes of...

Fare Thee Well

Ever wonder why there are so few superlative Chinese restaurants in this country? Why all we expect is dependable, cheap food in nondescript...

by Christopher Reed

The Nocebo Effect

If people expect to feel better from a pill or medical treatment, they just might, even if the pill is made of sugar or the treatment is a sham...