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Harvard and Havana
Since Fidel Castro took power, direct travel and communications between the United States and Cuba have been proscribed. But academic and...
Yesterday's News
1915 Massachusetts Hall is refitted as a lecture hall...
Chapter & Verse
Gerard Lenthall wishes to learn the identity of "Garamaz," a 1938 reference. Thomas Lemann would like a source for words attributed to...
A Sportive Spring
Spring sports roundup
The Curse of Adonis
When professor of psychiatry Harrison G. Pope Jr. '69, M.P.H. '72, M.D. '74, began lifting weights in 1980, it was seen as "rare and exotic...
Digital-age Policy
Who owns Harvard courses? Professors? The University?...
Cat, Frog, Worm...
The principal speakers during Commencement week 2000 said much about the value of reasoned inquiry, the importance of universities as a home for...
Core Curriculum
Technology and the transformation of identity, community, and commerce Moderator: Sherry Turkle '69, Ph.D. '76, professor of the...
Events
The summertime in Cambridge is a chance to savor life's all too swiftly passing moments. Take some time to spread out a picnic on the banks of...
Our Obedient Servant
Robert Shenton, Ph.D. '62, who died in February (see "Brevia," May-June, page 72), was secretary of the Governing Boards from 1971 to 1991...
American Society Unglued?
Thinking about civic engagement
Brevia
Romance in the Houses... An Allston Addition...