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In Bronze for Posterity
A bust of Werner Jaeger (1888-1961) presides over the common room of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He is...
The Character and Language of Pain
The difficulty of treating pain flows in part from the difficulty people have in expressing and characterizing their painful sensations. In her...
Alumni Gatherings
Upcoming Alumni Colleges include “Women in the War Zone” and “Harvard in the Olympics.” The events are organized by the...
The Active Life
Robert Bunshaft ’39, M.B.A. ’41, and his wife, Doris, played tennis almost every day for 50 years. Now in their 80s, they still meet...
Early Autumn Sports
Soccer After a 1-0 loss to Vermont, the men’s side (4-3-1) ran off three wins over Coastal Carolina, Maine, and Fairfield before dropping...
Meeting the Multiverse
It began with Isaac Newton. With the publication of his Principia in 1687, Newton became the first scientist to demonstrate that nature’s...
Gore Vidal, Lost and Found
Like many stories, this one began at an improbable distance in space and time from where it ended. The saga of how the Harvard Review (see...
Harvard Business School Class of...
Data from an annually updated Harvard Business School case comparing 1949 and current-year graduates, by professors of business...
High Italian
In general, Italian food has been so thoroughly assimilated into the American diet that it no longer counts as “ethnic” fare. Pizza...
Hiram Hunn Awards
Six alumni are to receive this year’s Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of...
Tsunami-Safe(r) Housing
Last December’s devastating tsunami leveled building walls that faced the sea in Sri Lankabut walls perpendicular to the shoreline...