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Neil L. Rudenstine president Harvard
Only 10 years ago, at the end of the 1990-1991 academic year, Harvard and the higher-education universe were very far from their current robust...
Prosperity and the Pill
Hailed as a medical miracle, the birth-control pill has been lauded and vilified for its virtually fail-safe powers as an oral contraceptive...
Yesterday's News
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Trove of Tomes
On a Saturday in April, two vans from New York drove up to Langdell Library at the Law School and off-loaded about a thousand early English law...
Harvard @ Home
Harvard at Home, which provides alumni with on-line access to a variety of intellectual happenings at the University, has expanded its...
The 350th Leadership
It was a sollemnia semisaecularia septima occasion,* but little was made of that, and all the traditional revelries and ceremonial benedictions...
University People
Richard E. Oldenburg '54 was elected president of the Board of Overseers for 2001-2002, his last year of service on the board. He succeeded...
The President and the Professions
University presidents, in general, find the machinations of medical schools arcane, strangely complex, and at times suspiciously devious. Neil...
Chapter & Verse
Edith Kovach seeks the author and additional text of a poem she believes was titled "The Father Mole to His Son," which ended...
Exploding Evolution
Evolution will occur wherever organisms display variation, differences in fitness, and the capacity for inheritance. Humans have always sped up...
The B.A. Diploma from A to Z
The first Harvard diploma in English instead of Latin appeared in 1961. When word of the abandonment of Latin came through in April, it touched...
Who Are You, Anyway?
I remember when my younger sister Charlotte received her acceptance letter from Harvard. I shrieked and performed an atavistic dance of sibling...