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Sandra Grindlay

Seen here [this photograph not available on-line] at the Fogg Art Museum with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, LL.D. 1859, is Sandra Grindlay...

Spring Sports

Men's Crew The Crimson decisively swept the Harvard-Yale boat race (the varsity winning by 41.3 seconds), to cap a strong season. The men's...

"Of Faith and Citizenship"

I am one of you. But I am also one of "them." What do I mean? When I am told that this is a world at war, a war between the great civilizations...

Adjudicating Sexual-Assault Cases

Stymied in its attempts to resolve certain student peer complaints—most seriously those alleging sexual assault—the College's...

Tough Love

Editor's Note: Nicholas Dawidoff '85 has just published The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World, a richly detailed...

Harvard Calendar

FILM. Following its recent summer tradition, the Harvard Film Archive offers "movies from A to Z" taken from its 6,000-print collection...

NO on a Summer's Eve

One knew, perhaps, that the gas nitric oxide (NO) is a constituent of automobile exhaust and a big player in the formation of smog, and is no...

by Christopher Reed

Harvard overseers

Election Results The membersof the Board of Overseers have elected Thomas S. Williams Jr. '68 theirnew president. He succeeds Richard E...

"Upon The Occasion of Your Graduation"

Although—let us be right out front —there is nothing gradual about it. Surely your progress has been digestively slow, Has...

Dating at Harvard circa 2002

For the first two years of my college career, I was single. Though I dated a bit, I found the romantic waters of Harvard Yard extremely cold...

by Arianne R. Cohen

Free Speech: Testing

So often was he grilled by the press in the days before he delivered his controversial address, that Zayed M. Yasin '02 prepared a handout of...

In from the Margins

The first radiant spring day formed an auspicious backdrop for President Lawrence H. Summers's first decanal appointment, on April 9. Ellen...