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Burned at the Buzzer
The big hit of the New York theater season in 1894 was William Gillette's Too Much Johnson. It was a farce, but when it was revived at Yale Bowl...
Where the Bones Are
Documentary accounts of the historic past seldom capture the flavor of daily life hundreds of years ago. But broken pipestems, clay marbles, and...
Women in the Sciences
Five professors and the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) are jointly pursuing creative approaches to a persistent problem: the...
Lawrence Lessig on the increasing regulation of cyberspace
On liberty in cyberspace
Fictions of Science
In November, 1997, a curious report emerged from physicists at the California Institute of Technology, who claimed that certain subatomic...
Honors in Full
This year's Harvard Alumni Association Award winners were publicly recognized on October 28, at the fall meeting of HAA directors. The following...
"Hell's Aardvarks" at 50
In the antediluvian days before e-mail, the Harvard Crimson's notice column published an alphabetical list announcing student events. Space...
Bruce Jenkins
As an undergraduate working for the New York University cinema studies department, Bruce Jenkins operated a technological device that has...
Thomas Forrest Kelly teaches about “First NIghts”—musical premieres
A look at Thomas Forrest Kelly’s Harvard Core course on five musical premieres
Fustiness in the Fine Arts Department
Fairfield Porter '28 was a realist painter in the midst of the abstract expressionist movement. He had an emotionally complex life. Although he...
Wired for Life
Forget the stereotypes of new technology being only for younger people. Seniors in growing numbers are exercising their mental muscles by...
The President's Grandfather
HARVARD HAS about 125 notable old clocks. Fifty came in 1943 from Grenville L. Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. '89 (who gave to the Fogg Art Museum...