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From Lonely to Alone
Until the night before I left for winter break my first year, Harvard was enchanted. The people were winged, the ideas were utopian, the Yard was sylvan bliss. But that night, Harvard gave up another side of itself: its loneliness.
by Miriam Udel
A CD Guide to Women's Health
In a simple but elegant first foray into electronic publishing, Harvard University Press has issued The Harvard Guide to Women's Health on CD-ROM.
The Midlife Calm
You're a man in your forties and you are having an epiphany. Suddenly you see that your life has been meaningless. You take transformative action...
World's Fair
Signs of that internationalization, and of the diversification of Harvard and the nation, were everywhere. The baccalaureate service in Memorial Church on Tuesday...
The Pathfinder Nation
In her Commencement address, the Secretary of State challenges Americans to be the "authors of history."
The Glass Animals
Once seen, not forgotten. so it is with Harvard's wondrous glass flowers. Droves of visitors--120,000 annually--depart marveling at the unique collection…
Empires of the Mind
Rudenstine outlined an international agenda in his afternoon address
Read Better, Sleep More
A primer on teaching undergraduates how to read the right way
by Miriam Udel