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The Naumburg Room of Harvard's Fogg Museum
Nettie Naumburg died in 1930 and left to Harvard Rembrandt's Portrait of an Old Man, a Franz Hals, a Rubens, a Holy Family by Murillo, a small...
The Uncertain Art
Sometimes wrong; never in doubt." Atul Gawande quotes this saying about surgeons in the opening pages of Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an...
Crimson, White, and Blue
On a campus steeped in lore and history, perhaps no history is more visibly honored than that of Harvard's warriors. Since the earliest days of...
A Cluster of (Scholarly) Stars
The Radcliffe Institute, spreading its wings as a center for advanced study affiliated with a major research university, is extending the reach...
Curriculum Czar
Propelled by the cataclysm of World War II—and a half-dozen years of prior study of the undergraduate curriculum—a faculty committee...
On the Road with Death
In a world where buses are "flying coffins" and "moving morgues" and pedestrians should tremble, pulblic-health experts take on a neglected...
Life After Work
Retirement entails "learning how to maintain self-respect while letting go of self-importance," writes Harvard professor of psychiatry...
Alumni News
Aloian Winners Established in 1988 to honor the late David Aloian '49, a former executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association...
The Ultimate Blasts from the Past
In the 1960s, the United States secretly launched several satellites to check for illegal nuclear-weapons testing in space. Equipped with...
Elite Educators
When last seen, statistician Richard J. Light, Gale professor of education, had published his findings on what makes for an effective...
Veritas Values
Prompted by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies—the group formed in response to the "living wage...
Raised Voices
Six days after helping to bring the community together at Harvard's observance of September 11 (see preceding page), President Lawrence H...