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The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, which this year includes addresses by President Lawrence H. Summers and actor John A...
The Senior Marshals
The senior marshals, looking ahead to Commencement 2005, are: (clockwise from top left) first marshal Caleb Franklin, of Leverett House and Los...
Off the Shelf
Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money, by James Engell ’73, Ph.D. ’78, Gurney professor of English and professor of...
Puritan Party Time
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Of making books about Harvard there is no end, and...
Spectacular Swimming and Diving
The men’s swimming and diving team (8-0) won the Ivy championship and their eighth EISL title in the last 10 years, beating Princeton...
Building Boom
The University is on a building boom of sorts. The campus was transformed in the post-World War II era, extending itself outward and upward in...
Literary Warrior
The study where Mark Helprin writes his novels and short stories, essays, speeches, letters, and Wall Street Journal columns is a spectacular...
The Dating Game
Since 1978, thousands of people have streamed into Tercentenary Theatre on an early Thursday in June, looking forward to the University’s...
Educating Women
In October, Thunder’s Mouth Press released Vaginas: An Owner’s Manual by Liz Topp ’98 and her mother...
Remarks at the FAS faculty meeting, March 15, 2005
Faculty members forwarded remarks to Harvard Magazine
FAS Faculty Meeting Summary (March 15, 2005)
In a remarkable meeting held on the Ides of March in the Loeb Drama Center, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) twice voted to register its lack of confidence in...