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The Faculty Weighs In, circa 1899
Whether a new millennium and century have arrived or notlet it passDean Jeremy R. Knowles made the last Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
The Skinny on Weight
Calvin Trillin has attributed an astute observation to his father, who said something like, "You can't gain more weight than that of the food...
Pay for Performance
Harvard Management Company's president, Jack R. Meyer, and its five best-performing portfolio managers earned compensation totaling $41.1...
The Finish Line
Harvard's university campaign, the most ambitious such effort ever in higher education, concluded December 31, five and a half years from its...
Harvard Then and Now: The Decade Detailed
Value of Endowment, Average Salaries, and other statistics; 1990 and 2000.
John Harvard
John Harvard's name is so familiar that it may come as a surprise to learn how much of a man of mystery he is. Most graduates of the university...
Fixing Medieval Wine
Every year, French wholesalers airlift cases of Beaujolais Nouveau worldwide so that wine shops can start selling bottles to the public on the...
"Adam Smith" meets Ji Chaozhu
“Adam Smith” meets Mao’s translator in a class of ’52 get-together.
Cambridge 02138
WOMANLESS HISTORY As a recipient of a generation's worth of alumni mailings, I've known in an intuitive way that Harvard as an institution has a...
Brevia
Animal-Rights Threats Opposition to the use of animals in biomedical research (the subject of this magazine's January-February 1999 cover story)...
Dedicating Maxwell Dworkin
How is it that a famous liberal-arts center like Harvard, home to what is arguably the world's first computer, could also be called the...
Cities and Suburbs
Can our cities be made livable for all kinds of citizens, or are they condemned to be office ghettoes and entertainment zones used by suburban...