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Getting Centered
Almost unnoticed, much of the University's scholarly work has migrated from departments and individual professors' offices to...
Charles Follen
Student revolutionary, political refugee, gymnastics instructor, radical abolitionist clergyman: German-born Karl Follen was an unusual Harvard...
Disease Fighter
Barry Wald '78 was diagnosed with Steinert's Disease, a rare form of muscular dystrophy (MD), 13 years ago. Because of the muscle deterioration...
An End to Evasion
Among the unsung heroes of the twentieth century is Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew, a linguist, and an international lawyer, who reached the...
Jolson & Company
Their physical resemblance is striking. Yet deeper ties connect Al Jolson, the twentieth century's first superstar, and Stephen Mo Hanan '68...
Brevia
Spirits of the Law Since January 1999, when then-provost Harvey V. Fineberg promulgated it, Harvard's policy has been to prohibit...
Stop the Presses
Harvard has gotten out of the printing business for the third time in its history. On June 17 the University shed the 23 workers composing the...
Portrait of the Artist as a Director
The prototype of the silver-spoon baby, Paul Joseph Sachs was born in November 1878 in New York City, the eldest son of Samuel Sachs (a partner...
Cue: Costume Change
How many people would discard a tenured professorship and a Leverett House mastership to pursue a fledgling career as an operatic bass at the...
Carrier Commander
As captain of the USS John F. Kennedy, patroling the north Arabian Sea, Ronald H. Henderson Jr. '76 has been directly involved in the American...
Global Sushi
A fishing boat in the harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Just 12 years ago, an astounded world looked on as McDonald's served its...
First-year Double-talk
It is one of the paradoxes of the Harvard experience that the admissions process demands self-promotion, but the epilogue to the admissions...