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Treasure Hunter
From hanging out with R.E.M. in Athens, Georgia, to showing her paintings in Rome, to documenting local folklore hidden in the Catskills, Laura...
Grits and Beyond
If you want a precious morsel of "lacquered" foie gras with bee pollen, go to Clio in Boston. If you want to be fed voluptuous...
Bubbles and "Champagne"
For a woman once accused of lacking the requisite "math gene," Julie Fouquet '80 has done pretty well. After graduation, she earned a...
Reshaping the Science Center
A treasure buried in the basement of the Science Center for years, the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments will at last be...
A Scientific Windfall for the University?
A prestigious research institute in east Cambridge, and its 110,000-square-foot facility overlooking the Charles River, may soon be merged into...
Widener Library: Youthful at the Core
The rejuvenation of Widener Library progresses. The Phillips Reading Room opened for use in October, a major new something-to-see. It is one of...
Women, Working
When Harvard Business School's Baker Library amassed the bulk of its manuscript collection in the first half of the twentieth century, curators...
Waldo Peirce
Waldo Peirce '07/'08/'09 almost didn't graduate from Harvard. By his own admission he spent too much time in Leavitt and Peirce (no relation)...
Comings and Goings
Local Harvard clubs organize a number of lectures and social events. What follows is a list of some of the gatherings planned. For further...
Obsessed at Harvard
Artist and writer Edward Gorey '50, who died in 1999, once told a would-be interviewer, "The facts of my life are so few, tedious, and...
Harvard football undefeated in 2001
After a pair of 5-5 seasons sullied by inopportune turnovers and second-half meltdowns, head football coach Tim Murphy took a new pedagogical...
Airing Out the Living Wage
The occupation of Massachusetts Hall last spring by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM)--proponents of a minimum "living wage" of...