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Have you an urgent need to know the number of genito-urinary disorders in horses that doctors treated at the Free Clinic of Harvard's Veterinary...

Harvard Patterns

Every time a Harvard office hires an architect, designer, or planner—and that happens frequently—plans and maps and other kinds of...

Testing Trap

Supporters of the reauthorization, last January, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act hail it for tightening school accountability...

Yesterday's News

1922 The Harvard community is delighted that Leavitt and Peirce, long the unofficial "headquarters for Harvard men," has a new...

Letter from Kayenta

I live among the red rocks of the Southwest and the "red men" who are native to them. The Navajo Reservation is a desolate place with...

Historic Henley

Even given the storied history of Harvard crew, it was an unprecedented day. On Sunday, July 7, the final day of the Henley Royal Regatta in...

HOLLIS Improved

Choosing the relative peace of July, when the inevitable bugs could be dealt with calmly, the University Library released a greatly improved...

Laura Justine Garwin

Laura Justine Garwin Photograph by Stu Rosner After trumpeting with Harvard's jazz, concert, and marching bands, the Bach Society...

Reverence for the Object

  "...in every prosperous municipality in the land, in the next ten years the call is likely to come for thoroughly equipped...

How to Live?

Life happens. Decisions are made. Where do the two converge? How do you reconcile your "destiny" with more practical needs? "Many...

by Nell Porter-Brown

Superlative Surfaces

A Muslim performs ritual prayer, the salåt, five times a day, and pays attention to certain prescribed obligations while doing so...

Behind the Rampages

Their names—and their respective tragedies—are now a part of the American lexicon: Littleton, Colorado; Paducah, Kentucky; Jonesboro...

by Garrett M. Graff