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Off the Fast Track
Slow down, please, said community members comprising the Harvard-Allston Task Force. May we take things one at a time? Of course, said Harvard...
An Invitation to Reminisce
Daniel Gensler ’72, one of the students gathered below on the steps of University Hall in this April 1969 photograph, invites classmates...
Science's “Third Branch”
Why are doctors from Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital working with Harvard astrophysicists? And why is Professor Jeff Lichtman...
The Enigmatic Mr. Putin
Who is Mr. Putin?” The question reverberated in world capitals when Boris Yeltsin called a press conference on August 9, 1999, to...
Red Books, Raw Gems
Please tell your classmates, in a paragraph or two, what you would like them to know about your activities, interests, family life, career...
Off the Shelf
A Natural History of North American Trees, by Donald Culross Peattie ’22, illustrated by Paul Landacre (Houghton Mifflin, $40). This is a...
Disruptive Influences
He was a world-beater before he arrived at Harvard. In 2003, as a new high-school graduate, Greg Cohen ’07 played on the U.S. under-19...
What's Past Is Prologue
Sage Stossel ’93, executive editor of The Atlantic Online, regularly contributes editorial illustrations to the Boston Globe. She prepared...
Yesterday's News
1912 Mrs. George D. Widener reveals plans to build a library at Harvard in memory of her son, Harry Elkins Widener ’07, who perished with...
"...I don't care if I never get back."
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Baseball fan Philip J. Lowry ’71, M.B.A. ’79, of...
Construction Gallery
Photograph by Jim Harrison [view larger photograph] Seen from atop William James Hall (and in detailed views below), the...
Interim Successor Named for Ailing FAS Dean
Pilbeam served on the faculty’s Task Force on General Education, whose recommendations are the basis of draft legislation the faculty is now debating...