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Your Harvard Classics

"What books would you choose for a twenty-first century Harvard Classics?" the editors asked readers (November-December, page 56), inviting them to submit lists of 10 books...

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DOES HARVARD REALLY WANT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING? "Living wage" proponents, sitting in at Massachusetts Hall last spring...

Buttonhook and Aloha

Record-breaking passer Rose, going aerial last fall Photograph courtesy Harvard Sports Information Talk about spectacular entrances: In...

by Craig Lambert

From Playwriting to Physics

The Radcliffe Institute's 2001-2002 fellows include a sculptor, a filmmaker, a painter, and two composers; a poet, a novelist, two playwrights...

Research Roster

Harvard hums with research. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, the University received $429 million in sponsored-research support...

Down East Dazzlers

One day in 1820 amateur naturalists Elijah Hamlin and Ezekiel Holmes were poking around on a hill in Paris, Maine, in the southwestern part...

News from the HAA

Applauded Established in 1990, the Harvard Alumni Association Awards recognize alumni who provide exemplary volunteer service to the University...

Athlete-in-Chief

Bob Scalise Courtesy Harvard Sports Information In 1978, Harvard won the Ivy League's first women's soccer championship, and that...

The Sorry State of Harvard Football

In both 1949 and 1950 Harvard won only a single football game; in 1951 Yale won just two. Princeton, however, "had used its alumni to...

Brevia

Money Managers Move For the fourth time since 1998, a group of Harvard Management Company (HMC) investment professionals have decamped, seeking...

Human origins driven by technological and cultural revolutions

Ofer Bar-Yosef argues that cultural and technological revolutions have been more important than biological ones during the past 100, 000 years.

by Jonathan Shaw

The Law School Looks Ahead

The future of professional education at Harvard promises much closer interaction between professors and students, especially during their...