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The Allure of the Bad Boy
The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, by Megan Marshall ’77 (Houghton Mifflin, $28), is a delightful group...
A Musical Education
Harpsichordist Irma Rogell ’39 made her stage debut, in Boston’s Jordan Hall, at the age of 40. Her background, as the last pupil of...
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Getting Social Security Right I appreciate Professor Jeffrey B. Liebman’s recognition (“Reforming Social Security,&rdquo...
Pro Tennis at Harvard
This summer, professional sports will return to campus for the first time since the Boston (now the New England) Patriots played at Harvard...
A Planner for GSD
Had life gone according to his plan, Alan A. Altshuler would have spent one of the snowiest Cambridge winters on record in Singapore. Instead...
Art of the Hunt
A Persian prince of antiquity possessed hunting equipment of often inescapable effectiveness—a trained cheetah. See the manuscript painting...
Passing the Baton
H. Holton Wood '40 and some of his handmade batons (opposite) Photograph by Jim Harrison The distinctive top hats and tails worn by...
Life in Shadows
The Harvard Theater Collection has recently acquired from a London dealer a unique set of 124 miniature Indonesian shadow puppets and the gongs...
A Modest Generation
So what do we call ourselves? As labels for a generation go, The Silent Generation always struck me as singularly stupid; I don’t think we...
Your Vote Counts
Alumni will choose five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) in annual elections this...
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Commencement VoicesThe Harvard Alumni Association’s guest speaker on Commencement afternoon, June 9, will be actor John A. Lithgow...
Yesterday's News
1925 The Associated Harvard Clubs’ Committee on Service to the University suggests that descendants of Harvard graduates be given...