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Faculty Composition
Harvard's faculty consists of both tenured professors and "ladder faculty" (associate and assistant professors), and other teaching...
Faculty Meeting, Part 2 (February 22, 2005)
Speakers' prepared texts are provided here, or, where they spoke without a text or did not provide one, a summary account appears...
Meeting of the Faculty, February 15, 2005
At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on February 15, 2005, the formal agenda proposed two principal business items...
Arts and Sciences Dean to Leave Office
Close observers were not surprised that Kirby relinquished the deanship. A senior University administrator said, “No one who is around here is unaware that...
Casbah Nights
It is strangely joyful to walk down the narrow, Colonial-era streets of Charlestown, lit by vintage-style gas lamps, and through the doors of...
Comings and Goings
Harvard clubs host gatherings all around the country. On January 21, for example, the Harvard Club of Cape Cod presents Menzel research...
Oyster Environmentalists
Once so degraded that residents avoided touching the brackish water, the 106-acre Wilson Bay in Jacksonville on the North Carolina coast now...
Harvard football completes undefeated season in 2004
Routing Penn and Yale in the pivotal games of a history-making season, the football team finished 10-0, won the Ivy League championship, and...
"Reasonably Good" Fiscal Results
Further progress toward moderating the rate of expense growth, and stable revenue growth, yielded "reasonably good results" for...
The Sweetest Season
Harvard's 35-3 demolition of Yale at the Stadium on November 20 was the crowning moment in a football season of peak performances: a perfect...
Paradise Lost?
Five thousand years ago in the Mesopotamian marshes, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in southern Iraq, the Sumerians began history. They...
Off the Shelf
Bury the Chains: Prophets, Slaves, and Rebels in the First Human Rights Crusade, by Adam Hochschild '63 (Houghton Mifflin, $26.95). A printer, a...