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Celebratory Meals

If you wanted to treat us to a celebratory dinner--because, let's say, we were about to pull down a summa in classics--here are some restaurants...

Good Poets Make Bad Neighbors

Frosty times on the Sandburg range

Off the Shelf

    On the Rez, by Ian Frazier ’73 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25). “This book is about Indians, particularly the Oglala...

The Harvard Dot-Com Boom

A reflective look at Harvard students navigating the late-1990s dot-com boom and startup culture

by Geoffrey A. Fowler

Spherical Riches

Harvard's baseball collection consists of 274 balls in a massive case. The balls commemorate games won by College teams between 1865 and 1885...

Preserving Harvard’s large outdoor Henry Moore sculpture

The bronze Large Four Piece Reclining Figure by Henry Moore that has reclined on the grass in front of Lamont Library for almost 20 years is now...

Mental Health Services Examined

In an effort to provide Harvard students with better mental-health care--a more accessible and tightly coordinated network of services--a...

A Taboo Passion

A Taboo Passion: "Addiction is the name we give to a taboo passion," says Ann Marlowe '79, G '80, author of how to stop time: heroin from A to...

Events of Note

FILM. This April, African cinema will take center stage at the Harvard Film Archive, beginning with African Film Festival 2000 (on April...

Practice Makes Perfect

Get in shape for the national elections by doing your duty as a Harvard citizen first. Ballots listing candidates for Overseer and for elected...

Seeds of Greatness

Of all the seed-bearing plants on earth, the angiosperms, or flowering plants, have been the most successful. There are 250,000 of them, as...

by Jonathan Shaw

The Faculty Weighs In, circa 1899

Whether a new millennium and century have arrived or not—let it pass—Dean Jeremy R. Knowles made the last Faculty of Arts and Sciences...