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Senior Status David B. FithianPhotograph by Michael RodriguezJohn FoxPhotograph by Jim HarrisonEffective September 1, assistant dean of the...
Chapter & Verse
Christopher Monson seeks the author of the truism, "The rectangle is the beginning of aesthetics." Dale Fink would welcome a verifiable...
World's Greatest Taglines?
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by."A friend who works at the Berklee College of Music in Boston tells...
Romance Heroine
Harvard alumni follow their interests to unpredictable places. Julie Cotler Pottinger '92 earned a degree in the history of architecture and...
Harvard faculty suggests revisions to the undergraduate curriculum
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean William C. Kirby has outlined the work on revising the undergraduate curriculum that he envisions...
Finding Faith
Fresh from a UNESCO-funded summer of writing at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria, Faith Adiele '86 sits in her office at the...
Harvard Historians' Memoirs: A Chronological Sampler
* Henry Adams, A.B. 1858, The Education of Henry Adams (1907/1918): circulated privately among the author's friends in 1907, then published...
Brevia
Professorship UndoneA $2.5-million gift to Harvard Divinity School by United Arab Emirates president Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, made in...
Reunion on the Road
Earlier this year, Earl and Paula Bracker of Cambridge marked their seventieth birthdays, organized a three-generation family reunion, and went...
A New Theory on Longevity
Caloric restriction, touted as a possible way to increase human life span, has gotten a lot of press lately. Research on rats and mice has shown...
Hats Off
Hats OffThe HAA Awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding volunteer service to the University through alumni activities. These...
Endowment Performance
Since Harvard Management Company established its current, highly diversified asset mix and investment strategies for the endowment in 1991...