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Headlines from Harvard history, March-April 1924-1989

From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine

Harvard Alumni for Agriculture: Snapshot of a SIG

The Harvard Alumni for Agriculture Shared Interest Group

Huntington Lambert

Profile of Harvard’s dean of continuing education and University extension

The “handyman” dean who runs continuing education and University extension

The plate-glass windows in Avis Buchanan’s downtown Washington, D.C., office neatly frame the U.S. Archives building. “It’s the repository of our Constitution," she says. "The Sixth Amendment gives us our existence and we use the Fourth and Fifth and Sixth in our fight on behalf of our clients every day.”

Profile of Avis Buchanan, director of the D.C. Public Defender Service

A profile of Avis Buchanan, director of the D.C. Public Defender Service

by Nell Porter-Brown

An Aero L-39 Albatros (foreground) and Dassault Falcon 2000 over the Golden Gate Bridge

Jessica Ambats shoots air-to-air photographs of airplanes

Jessica Ambats '95 makes amazing photographs of airplanes from the air.

by Craig Lambert

Illustration by Caroline Attia

An undergraduate considers peers’ views on motherhood at an early age

The Undergraduate ponders a phenomenon both alien and familiar.

by Jessica Salley

<i>Bowles's new pocket map of the United States of America: the British possessions of Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, with the French and Spanish territories of Louisiana and Florida, as settled by the preliminary articles of peace signed at Versailles the 20th. Jany. 1783,</i> published by Carington Bowles (London, 1784)

Harvard maps settle U.S.-Canada border

A library loan—with latitude

by John S. Rosenberg

Guidelines for Harvard Commencement Day

An update from the Commencement Office

HAA Clubs and Shared Interest Groups Awards

The 2013 honorees

Dining room at The White Barn Inn

A selection of New England spas

Options for getting away from it all

Cartoon by Donald Reilly, <i>The New Yorker</i> Collection/The Cartoon Bank

Harvard professor Sarah Richardson presents a history of the sex chromosomes

Sarah Richardson presents a history of the sex chromosomes in science and culture.

by Katherine Xue

Letters on loving L.A., Robert Frost, Keystone XL, and more

Letters on loving L.A., Robert Frost, Keystone XL, and more