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Can Harvard’s Football Team Repeat Its Ivy League Success?

Despite personnel losses, Crimson captain Xaviah Bascon is upbeat about the 2026 season.

by Dick Friedman

Medical Quad Times Two

The ceremonial groundbreaking for Harvard Medical School's new research building on February 1 assumes more than ordinary significance. Coming...

Homecoming

The arrangements and itinerary for the election and introduction of Harvard's twenty-seventh president, on Sunday, March 11, hewed to the...

Fineberg to Step Down as Provost

University provost Harvey V. Fineberg, once a leading candidate for Harvard's presidency, has announced his intention to resign his position...

The Summers Scoop

As an extra announcing the selection of Lawrence H. Summers as the University's next president rolled off the presses of the Harvard...

One Man's Mountain

Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian emphasized the literary qualities of his work, not the political conditions that make him an exile from his...

The Search, Summarized

The quest for Harvard's twenty-seventh president took shape last July, following Neil L. Rudenstine's announcement on May 22 that he would step...

The Empress of Domesticity

Displaying humor and an insatiable curiousity about the world, Martha Stewart charmed a Sanders Theatre audience. Photograph by Jim...

Radcliffe Consults Its Compass

The nascent Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, whose structure has gradually evolved from promise to particulars, continued taking shape...

Brevia

Robert E. Rubin U.S. Treasury Coming Attraction The Harvard Alumni Association's guest speaker on Commencement afternoon will be...

Women in Science Redux

Since the summer of 1999, members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and its dean, Jeremy R. Knowles, have sought to increase the number...

by Sara Houghteling