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The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard

In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.

by Constantine Archimedes Valhouli

The Living Harvard Force

A Harvardian who's who, who's where, who's what: The Alumni Directory at 90 documents a population explosion.

by John T. Bethell

Your Friend, Fidel

Jorge I. Domínguez, Dillon professor of international affairs and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard...

With a Little Help from Harvard's Friends

On Saturday morning, May 13, the dull gray of the sky over Cambridge brightened the white dogwood beside the Faculty Club, colored more deeply...

"A Hazard of Good Fortune"

A few years ago, in this very theater, we began a major undertaking together, and we did so without knowing quite how, or perhaps even whether...

Core Curriculum

Technology and the transformation of identity, community, and commerce   Moderator: Sherry Turkle '69, Ph.D. '76, professor of the...

Ken Miyata

When he died at the age of 32, Kenneth Ichiro Miyata, Ph.D. '80, was one of the most famous fly-fishermen in the world. But even those who had...

by Craig Lambert

What I Read at War

        ...sed carmina tantum nostra valent, Lycida, tela inter Martia, quantum Chaonias dicunt aquila...

John Knowles Paine

Harvard's first professor of music was born in Portland, Maine, where his father led the town band, owned the music store, and published music...

Picking Harvard's Pocket

The entrance strategy was simple. On Saturday afternoon, December 1, 1973, a visitor to the Fogg Art Museum, a man in his twenties, left a brown...

by Christopher Reed

A Better Way to Practice Medicine?

Looking at the relationship between doctor and patient, and the way healthcare is delivered in our country.