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The Table Is Set
For the installation of its twenty-seventh president, Harvard displayed on a stage set up at the front of Tercentenary Theatre various sacred...
Why sleep is important for college students
Early freshman year, in order to experience all that college had to offer, I decided to cut sleep out of my life entirely. Having over-committed...
The Law of Gravity
What goes up indeed comes down. Following the breathtaking 32.2 percent return on investments for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, Harvard...
The "Five-foot Shelf" Reconsidered
"On or about December, 1910," Virginia Woolf wrote, "human character changed." Woolf was not referring to a specific event...
by Adam Kirsch
Icarus
There are those who have eaten at Icarus more than a hundred times during the last 20 years and say they have never had a reason not to go back...
Liquid Computing
Imagine a computer, suspended in a flask of liquid, which assembles itself when the liquid is poured onto a desktop. Sound like science fiction?...
Fall Sports in Progress
Harvard Sports on the Web Visit the Crimson's official website, www.athletics.harvard.edu, for Harvard teams' schedules and results, stories...
Yesterday's News
1926 After closing the Memorial Hall commons because of students' "unsociable fashion of 'eating round' at cafeterias and lunch...
Beyond the Transcript
Last year, Harvard's senior admissions officers urged applicants to the College-- and their parents--to relax a little, lest the rising...
Talking about Terrorism
In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., on September 11, Harvard took the steps one would...
Mosquitoes and ticks carry diseases, sometimes with devastating economic effects
Andew Spielman studies diseases carried by blood-sucking insects, and their adaptations to life with their human hosts.
Hilarity On-line
The logo--a man in a suit and fedora striding confidently toward a banana peel--is, indeed, retro. But the comedy website Modern Humorist...