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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...
In Memoriam
The staff of Harvard Magazine wish to express their sorrow at the loss of the following alumni in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001...
Hop, Skip, and Soar
Post-doctoral fellow Gary Gillis plays "catcher" behind a tammar wallaby on a fast-moving treadmill. Hopping marsupials like...
Language Lessons
Former Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow Elizabeth Gudrais '01 returned from a fellowship in Latvia in December and is now...
Chapter & Verse
Howard Hillman seeks a "botanically correct" poem describing two adjacent climbing vines that fall in love with each other and embrace...
Nathan Marsh Pusey
In his habits of character and his presidential style, Nathan Pusey '28, Ph.D '37, LL.D '72, was a figure of transition. The last of a breed in...
Second in Command
In his installation address on October 12 and in a subsequent talk to alumni 15 days later, President Lawrence H. Summers emphasized that...
Far from Clueless
Like many Harvard seniors, Sofia Lidskog '01 interviewed for jobs with investment banks and management consulting firms in New York City...
Reunion: The Musical
Six years ago, at the class of 1961's thirty-fifth reunion, Phil Carl sang a few songs during the cabaret-style festivities. Classmate Dan Klein...
Battling Bioterrorism
When people started dying of inhalation anthrax in 1979 in Sverdlovsk, in the former Soviet Union, it took "six days to discern the outbreak...
Fall Sports in Brief
The men's soccer team (10-5-1, 5-2 Ivy) finished third in the Ivies, having reeled off a five-game winning streak in midseason. The booters...