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A Deadly Emotional Disease
Despite remarkable advances in the treatment of mild mood and anxiety disorders in recent years, many people with severe depression do not find...
Class Gifts
The University had received $506 million in gifts through May 31 of the fiscal year, $13 million ahead of donation totals at the same time a...
Grand Adventures
Last summer Lucy and Richard Sallick visited a horse farm, an olive-oil factory, and the museums of Florence—all with their grandchildren...
The Stadium, Returfed
Record it for the history books: the last of 646 football games played on natural grass at Harvard Stadium since 1903 is over and gonethe...
Hold the Garlic Mustard
Garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata, a European native, immigrated to the United States in the 1800s, says Kristina Stinson, “perhaps...
Reconfiguring the Curriculum
Much work on refashioning the undergraduate curriculum remains for the next academic year, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) concluded...
Yesterday’s News
1916The Faculty Committee on the Use of English by Students reports that undergraduates “write bad English because of sheer ignorance...
“We Must Cross Over”
In his Commencement address, President Summers reviewed his priorities. A detailed report on his tenure will appear in the next issue.  ...
Clergy Roar like Lions
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Caroline Healey Dall (1822-1912) was a transcendentalist...
History of the Historian
The job of remaking the Mississippi River, Mark Twain wrote in the 1870s, is “a job transcended in size only by the original job of...
New Leaders
The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and the new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) were announced at...
Chapter & Verse
Anne Daniels wonders if someone can identify the following statement, which was “evidently well-known in England in the 1890s”: Is...