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The Eugenic Temptation
The full-page advertisement in the Harvard Crimson a year ago came as no surprise. The text was straightforward: Intelligent, Athletic Egg...
"A Loomful of Hues"
Jeanne Heifetz ’81 didn’t become involved with weaving until she was 14, but remembers always being attracted to traditional...
Buy America
Buy America John D. Spooner ’59, author of Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around? (Adams Media...
Memorial minute for Laurence Wylie, scholar of French civilization
As is its custom, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting of December 14, 1999, began with memorial minutes commemorating deceased colleagues...
Sun and Shade
When daylight-saving time returns on April 2, not a moment too soon, Harvardians emerging into the sunlight may wish to visit the restored...
HIID, Dismantled
For many years, Harvard has moved gradually but consistently toward globalizing its mission and outreach, with new international programs in the...
Orchid Peeping
An exhibition probing pollination strategies opened on Valentine's Day at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and will run through May 14...
Deep Cravings
The bombshell dropped in 1976, when "The Natural History of Chipping" appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry. In their article, Norman...
Saltcellar as Symbol
A salt can be "an element that gives flavor or zest," but a new local restaurant chooses a different metaphor: "Throughout...
Class secretaries and treasurers help Harvard’s AHCCS&T celebrates a centennial
And now for something completely different. Those readers who turned to this space in the previous issue found, under the headline Sensational...
The Boy’s Dilemma
The idea that boys like to play with guns while girls prefer dolls is venerable. But in recent years, boys have started playing with real guns...
Quest for the Best
How to help academically distinguished, but economically and socially disadvantaged, high-school students succeed in college and later in life?...