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Bear Market
In recent years, the annual fall career forum at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center has been one of the most conspicuous displays of the many...
Faculty Diversity: some additional statistics
Supplemental statistics to "Forum: Faculty Diversity," in the March-April, 2002 edition of Harvard Magazine...
Virtual Mass. Hall
Having brought his office in Massachusetts Hall into the personal-computer age (see "July 2, Day 1," September-October 2001, page 57)...
A Foray into Digital Preservation
Scholarly journals today are born digital, and in increasing numbers of cases, no paper edition is ever published. Typically, only one...
Harvard in Drag: The Collected Works
In the bowels of the Hasty Pudding building at 12 Holyoke Street, a clubhouse with theater built in 1888, is the so-called Elephant Room, a...
Harvard on the Block
Harvardiana from the collection of Michael Droller. He thinks that the doll, circa 1950, may be one of a kind, unlike the turtle (below)...
Spring Sampler
Photographs by Jim Harrison unless otherwise indicated. Objects © President and Fellows of Harvard College Here begins an excursion...
Chapter & Verse
Thomas Bettman requests the source of a fragment from Hart Crane that he remembers: "The poetry of despair is beautiful, alas, but I must...
Down by the River
State-of-the-art one-bedroom condominiums within walking distance of Harvard Square can go for more than $400,000 these days. Even faculty...
First Fellow's Farewell
Concluding 27 years of service as a member of the Harvard Corporation, Robert G. Stone Jr. '45 will step down as a Fellow of Harvard College at...
War of Words
Any new Harvard president was bound to establish new priorities, altering the expectations built up during the prior decade and forging new...