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The New Medicine
Seeking to make the most of new scientific opportunities in an era of rising research costs and shifting income sources, Harvard Medical School...
Yo-Yo Ma's Journeys
A warm, breezy day in July, and beneficent providence has set for me a sumptuous lunch overlooking God's own landscape near Tanglewood, on the...
Yesterday's News
1920 Thanks to the Endowment Fund campaign, President Lowell approves a new salary scale for faculty members under which full professors will...
Off the Shelf
On the Rez, by Ian Frazier ’73 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25). “This book is about Indians, particularly the Oglala...
The Harvard Dot-Com Boom
A reflective look at Harvard students navigating the late-1990s dot-com boom and startup culture
Spherical Riches
Harvard's baseball collection consists of 274 balls in a massive case. The balls commemorate games won by College teams between 1865 and 1885...
Preserving Harvard’s large outdoor Henry Moore sculpture
The bronze Large Four Piece Reclining Figure by Henry Moore that has reclined on the grass in front of Lamont Library for almost 20 years is now...
Mental Health Services Examined
In an effort to provide Harvard students with better mental-health care--a more accessible and tightly coordinated network of services--a...
A Taboo Passion
A Taboo Passion: "Addiction is the name we give to a taboo passion," says Ann Marlowe '79, G '80, author of how to stop time: heroin from A to...
Events of Note
FILM. This April, African cinema will take center stage at the Harvard Film Archive, beginning with African Film Festival 2000 (on April...
Practice Makes Perfect
Get in shape for the national elections by doing your duty as a Harvard citizen first. Ballots listing candidates for Overseer and for elected...
Seeds of Greatness
Of all the seed-bearing plants on earth, the angiosperms, or flowering plants, have been the most successful. There are 250,000 of them, as...