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A Matter of Style
Harvard has infiltrated such unlikely enclaves as Hollywood and the National Football League; now it is making inroads on Seventh Avenue...
Shakespeare's "Tenth Muse"?
Illustration by Bartek Malysa Perhaps the second-most-cultivated plant in Elizabethan England, after wheat, was hemp--Cannabis sativa...
Siren Song
October 31, 2000, 4 p.m. I've just had one of those brief but potent conversations in which a casual comment by someone I scarcely know hits me...
by Miriam Udel
A High-Priced Product
Readers of this hefty work will frequently think of Samuel Johnson on Paradise Lost: "None ever wished it longer than it is." But they...
Weighing In on Wages
The committee appointed May 8 by then-president Neil L. Rudenstine to study wages and job opportunities for Harvard's lower-paid workers is...
2001-2002 Ledecky Fellows
Photograph by Stu Rosner The students who will serve as Harvard Magazine's 2001-2002 Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows--both...
Bunk, in Faded Gingham
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Harvard's arrogance, and its just rewards, are the topics of...
Purse Strings of the Heart
Odysseus struggled to resist the Sirens. Adam Smith warned of dangerous passions for profusion. And we have all, despite our diets, succumbed to...
Harvard as Seen in Its Buildings
As Harvard raises new buildings and begins thinking about its future presence on its Allston properties, will it conform to the prevailing...
Harvard Calendar
SPECIAL. The thirty-second annual ice skating exhibition An Evening with Champions, organized by the students at Eliot House, takes place at the...
July 2, Day 1
Lawrence H. Summers became the University's twenty-seventh president on Sunday, July 1. Next day, photographers visited his office in...
Where Pedagogy Is "Interesting"
When he was a graduate student at Harvard, recalls Richard Light, Ph.D. '69, resources for learning how to teach were scarce. As a budding...