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"First Day of School" for Engineering
With speeches and feasting, Harvard celebrated the launch of its new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) on September 20. During a...
Green Gauge
The ever-useful Harvard University Fact Book (published annually by the Office of Budgets, Financial Planning, and Institutional Research, and...
Googling Google
Google, which earned $1.1 billion in operating income in the second quarter of 2007 alone, is now the single most important company on the...
Glossary for an Invisible World
Feature Article: The Undiscovered Planet Archaea: One of three major domains, or classifications, of life, archaea are morphologically similar...
In Wine We Trust
Like children waiting with open bags at the door on Halloween, a dozen adults crowded around a table at the Skinner auction house wine preview...
The Presidents We Pick
James MacGregor Burns, Ph.D. ’47, Woodrow Wilson professor of government emeritus at Williams College, a distinguished scholar, gifted...
Well Done
The Harvard Alumni Association Awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding service to Harvard University through alumni...
Anniversary Announcements
No one knows when John Harvard was born, but a record book from Southwark Cathedral in London announces his baptism there on November 29, 1607...
Getting and Spending
The University’s annual financial accounting—usually a forbidding and retrospective document—this year sports a new look and...
The Endowment: Up, and Upheaval
A strong year for investors generally was a very strong year for the University. Harvard Management Company (HMC), concluding its first full...
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ARGUING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE Joan Wickersham’s exploration of “Bricks and Politics” (September-October, page 50) evokes a famous...
The Horror and the Beauty
Maria Tatar explores the dazzle and the “dark side” in fairy tales—and why we read them.