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Parallel Universities
Even as Harvard's planning consultants conclude the private phase of their development grid for Allston, it is possible to get a sense of their...
Harvard news and notes, early spring 2005
Scientific Ventures Albert J. WeatherheadCelia J. Weatherhead Justin Ide / Harvard News OfficeJustin Ide / Harvard News Office Flexible...
Off the Shelf
Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, by Ross Gregory Douthat '02 (Hyperion, $24.95). "Harvard was not what I had...
10 Downing Street's Gulag
In October 1952, the British governor of Kenya, Sir Evelyn Baring, declared a state of emergency. Mau Mau rebels were attacking and...
Faculty Meeting, Part 2 (February 22, 2005)
Speakers' prepared texts are provided here, or, where they spoke without a text or did not provide one, a summary account appears...
Meeting of the Faculty, February 15, 2005
At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on February 15, 2005, the formal agenda proposed two principal business items...
Arts and Sciences Dean to Leave Office
Close observers were not surprised that Kirby relinquished the deanship. A senior University administrator said, “No one who is around here is unaware that...
Pipes's Partner
No study of Daniel Pipes would be complete without a few words about the trenchant Martin Kramer, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near...
Back to School
Christoph H. Schmidt '55 and his wife, Babette, initially retired to their summer home in Cushing, Maine, but after several years, they moved...
How to Cook a Thesis
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by."The senior thesis, a big chunk of original work, is the culmination...
Down and Out in Paris and Boston
Outgoing North Carolina senator John Edwards wasn't the first person to notice the Second America, which he described in a primary campaign...
Fall Sports Championships
Field HockeyThe stickwomen (11-7, 6-1 Ivy) won a share (with Penn) of their first Ivy title since 1991. The Crimson's 3-1 victory over the...