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A New Model
For a University committee, HCECP--which included faculty members, administrators, unionized workers, and both undergraduates and graduate...
Off the Shelf
The Age of Science: What Scientists Learned in the Twentieth Century, by Gerard Piel '37 (Basic Books, $40). The founder of Scientific American...
Alternative medicine ("integrative medicine") goes mainstream
In the 1950s the American Cancer Society had a Committee on Quackery. Later that turned into a committee on "unproven methods of cancer...
Finding Work That Works for You
Sticking with one job, one company, or even a single career is much less common than it used to be. This can be a blessing--or a burden. Some...
Britain-bound
Eight Harvard seniors will cross the Atlantic to study at Oxford next year as Marshall and Rhodes Scholars. Sarah Moss has been an avid...
Virtual Mass. Hall
Having brought his office in Massachusetts Hall into the personal-computer age (see "July 2, Day 1," September-October 2001, page 57)...
A Foray into Digital Preservation
Scholarly journals today are born digital, and in increasing numbers of cases, no paper edition is ever published. Typically, only one...
Harvard in Drag: The Collected Works
In the bowels of the Hasty Pudding building at 12 Holyoke Street, a clubhouse with theater built in 1888, is the so-called Elephant Room, a...
Harvard on the Block
Harvardiana from the collection of Michael Droller. He thinks that the doll, circa 1950, may be one of a kind, unlike the turtle (below)...
Spring Sampler
Photographs by Jim Harrison unless otherwise indicated. Objects © President and Fellows of Harvard College Here begins an excursion...