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Mad for Degas
In 1911 the little Fogg Art Museum mounted the only one-man museum exhibition to occur during his lifetime of works by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar...
Allston Options: Up for Discussion
Calling “effective transportation” the “most critical” of the issues Harvard faces as it plans for expansion into...
Moving On
Jonathan Gorham ’71 recently helped his mother move from a retirement community in Maine to an assisted-living apartment closer to where...
Thomas W. Lentz
In the early 1980s, when Thomas W. Lentz was earning a Ph.D. at Harvard by becoming an expert on Islamic art—Persian painting in...
Society's Casino
In the fall of 2001, Americans drastically revised their travel habits. “Driving went up, and flying went down,” says David Ropeik...
"More News to Come..."
John James Audubon described the stentorian voice of the ivory-billed woodpecker in his Ornithological Biography, prose descriptions of the...
Life at the Epicenter
Bioethicists like R. Alta Charo ’79 operate where scientific innovation butts up against cultural ethos. As a professor of law and...
Harvard Local,
In her Senior English Address, “Perfect Imperfection,” Alicia J. Menendez ’05, whose concentration was women, gender, and...
Honor Roll
Philip Fisher Howard Georgi Rose Licoln / Harvard News Office Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Margo I. Seltzer Lino Pertile...
Freud's Guesswork on Dreams
One of Sigmund Freud’s great complaints about his mistreatment in life was that although he won a literary award for his famous book The...
Maxine Kumin
On Arts First weekend, poet Maxine Kumin ’46, A.M. ’48, a Bunting Institute Fellow in 1963, became the eleventh recipient of the...
Norse Calypsos, et Cetera
The polymathic Nicholas D. Humez ’69silversmith, author, banjoist, classical philologist, composer of operas and string quartets...