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Deconstructing the College Deanship
Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean William C. Kirby is creating a new structure to manage undergraduate life at Harvard. He expects to...
Festival Feasts
Merry reunioners, incipient graduates, proud parents, beaming sweeties, celebrants at this year's Commencement-time festival rites, may wish to...
A Box of Pox
Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D. (hon.) 1786, called smallpox the "devouring monster." Today it is the only naturally occurring disease...
"Entering the Elite"
An apocryphal tale about car-window decals epitomizes the frenzy surrounding college admissions in recent years. One high-school counselor tells...
Hooray for Harvardwood
Alumni in Hollywood rolled out the red carpet for 14 undergraduates
Stage One
Two years ago, Emily Knapp '03 was slated to be the assistant director for a production of Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown, which the...
CFO for Tighter Times
The University's fiscal affairs are now in the hands of Ann E. Berman, who was appointed vice president for finance and chief financial officer...
The Purely Pragmatic University
American universities face exceptional opportunities and exceptional risks. Their research is needed more than ever, now that new scientific...
Harvard Calendar
SPECIAL. The annual ArtsFirst festival, showcasing more than 200 student performances of music, dance, and drama most of them free and...
Learned Linguist
A Nevada humanities award presented recently to William H. Jacobsen Jr. '53 recognized his contribution to the state's "living history."...
Stars, Bulls, and Bears
Picture an investor trying to decide which mutual fund will make the most of her retirement savings. As she reads prospectuses, the fine print...
Quick at the Plate
It came down to an esophagus-and-esophagus finish, but with friends cheering him on, Ian Walker '03 swallowed up the lead of a chomping Eagle...