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1928 Following Harvard’s first spring reading period, the College Library reports about 650 more visitors than in the previous year. 1933...

John Chervinsky

Photograph by Stu Rosner John Chervinsky Like many people, John Chervinsky takes his work home. But what this lab engineer takes home may one...

George Bancroft

George Bancroft

Brief life of a public historian: 1800-1891...

<em>&quot;Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by.&quot;</em>

A Peal Before Leaving

Question: “What was I, a young American student of medicine and electrical engineering—and an observant Jew—doing in the...

A Reunion of One’s Own

Connecting in the digital age...

New Year's Summiteers

Photograph courtesy of Pamela Wolfe Crimson hikers (from left) Anne Walston ’67, Éva Borsody Das ’63, and Ken Moller...

Nicholas Dawidoff, in uniform here with bat at the ready at the age of 11, describes his devotion to the Red Sox in a new memoir.

A Scatter of Acorns

Excerpt from Nicholas Dawidoff ’85 memoir The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball...

Getting My Feet Wet

I remember many things from my cousin’s wedding—my poofy bridesmaid’s dress, the humidity, how pretty the small church looked...

by Liz Goodwin

Cambridge 02138

Green energy options, foreign policy, medical errors, military jurist...

Race in a Genetic World

“I am an African American,” says Duana Fullwiley, “but in parts of Africa, I am white.” To do fieldwork as a medical...

Robert and Mildred Bliss, during his diplomatic posting to Sweden in the 1920s.

Visionary Donors

Robert Bliss died in 1962, Mildred Bliss in 1969, but the benefactors of Dumbarton Oaks still cast a long shadow over their former home...

The Events of the Week

The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, which this year include a Harvard College Class Day speech by chairman of the Federal...