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The President's Grandfather
HARVARD HAS about 125 notable old clocks. Fifty came in 1943 from Grenville L. Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. '89 (who gave to the Fogg Art Museum...
Sisters in Thin Air
The tallest group of women ever to play basketball for Harvard is now on the court. They're not just high, but mighty: "This is potentially...
Beyond the Budget
"It was a very simple year." So Elizabeth C. Huidekoper, vice president for finance, characterizes Harvard's getting and spending for...
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...
Chapter & Verse
James McCourt seeks a source for "The problem with the 'melting pot' theory is that those on the bottom get burned and the scum rises to...