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Saved from the Flames
"Last night Harvard College suffered the most ruinous loss it ever met with since its foundation," begins a broadside printed in...
Aid and Tuition Head Higher
Echoing the enhancement in financial aid implemented in the fall of 1998, the College has increased its undergraduate aid budget by $8.3...
"You Keep Going"
At his twentieth reunion, a classmate asked Peter Mee '76 what he'd been doing since graduation. "Oh, I've been researching brain injuries...
The Search, Summarized
The quest for Harvard's twenty-seventh president took shape last July, following Neil L. Rudenstine's announcement on May 22 that he would step...
Noah's Followers
Maria Rutzmoser, curatorial associate of the mammal department at the MCZ, in a portrait from the early 1980s. The bones she guards have...
Harvard's "Lady Di"
Diane Jellis, momentarily at rest in Wadsworth House. Photograph by Stu Rosner If you don't already know Diane Jellis, you may have...
Questions 101
The countdown began on February 28. I was jogging across Tercentenary Theatre (coincidentally, the site of my impending graduation) when I was...
On Human Reproduction
Peter Ellison's On Fertile Ground is a truly extraordinary, state-of-the-art book on a topic that concerns all human beings as individuals and a...
Andrew W. Murray
Photograph by Jon Chase One week after publication of the human genome, Andrew W. Murray, professor of molecular and cellular biology...
Comings and Goings
Many Harvard clubs boast a full roster of alumni events in May and June, including the selected list of speakers found below. Contact the club...
Bulfinch Magic
Architect Charles Bulfinch performed a death-defying feat in University Hall 188 years ago. He caused to be built a staircase of heavy granite...
Winter's End
THE HOTTEST SHOT ON ICE Tammy Shewchuck '01 has scored more than anyone else who has ever played ice hockey at Harvard. This year...