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Living Wage: Next Stage
On the last day of January, President Lawrence H. Summers announced that the University would adopt the "living wage" recommendations...
Mayr at Harvard
In 1953, a decade after the triumph of his Systematics and the Origin of Species, Harvard attracted Mayr--by then the world's leading...
"Bobby" Jones
Jones connects at the Flintridge Golf Club in Los Angeles in 1931. Photograph courtesy Sidney L. Matthew. Photomontage by Bartek Malysa...
Cortices in C Minor
This is your brain on music: lighting up all over the place. Mark Jude Tramo, M.D., Ph.D. '98, an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard...
Harvard Calendar
SPECIAL. Skip on over to the annual CityStep show, performed by Cambridge fifth- and sixth-graders at Sanders Theatre on April 12 and 13. For...
A Woman's Studies
I can't explain what I study at Harvard. I am a women's-studies concentrator. After a two-year stint of floating through five large academic...
Amending Advising
Harvard undergraduates remain dissatisfied with the quality of academic advising they receive in their concentrations. Harry R. Lewis, dean of...
Kaats and Bear Arrive
Railroad tycoon Edward Harriman financed a scientific expedition to the coast of Alaska in 1899 and went along on it with his family. When the...
WWI Women Remembered
In a Veterans Day service at Memorial Church on November 11, Ronald Sobel, senior rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El, New York City, spoke of the...
Attacking Aids
The quest for an AIDS vaccine is a compelling story. Pronouncements on the subject have emanated from sources that ordinarily do not address...
Are American Liberties at Risk?
What threats to our constitutional culture should most concern us in the recent executive and legislative responses to September 11? asked...
Yesterday's News
1922 Noting a trend among American universities toward improving the quality of student dormitories, the editors remark, "The average...