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Concentration Complications
Of all the difficult decisions one confronts as an undergraduate, the selection of concentration is perhaps the hardest. Fortunately, it is also...
by Samuel Bjork
Faculty Well-Being: A Status Report
For the first time, Harvard has asked its faculty members how happy they are. A survey conducted last November by the two-year-old Office of...
Janet Browne
Photograph by Harrison Janet Browne When Darwin biographer Janet Browne emigrated from University College London a year ago to become Aramont...
The "Sellout"
In the hazardous waters of American race politics, a particular danger shadows the successful black American who achieves status and acclaim in...
The Undiscovered Planet
All images courtesy of Roberto Kolter, unless otherwise noted Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton—these are familiar names. During a...
Elegante!
Sorellina (“little sister”) is a vast open space with a stratospheric, white-tiled ceiling and several white columns as thick around...
Job Notices
Several college programs match students with paid and unpaid jobs and internships. To find out more about how alumni can provide these learning...
Venturing into China
The Harvard China Fund, established in 2006 to strengthen the University’s academic connections with the People’s Republic, has made...
New Harvard Graduate School of Design dean Mohsen Mostafavi
Expect bold ideas from Mohsen Mostafavi when he begins his term as dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD). On a late September visit to...
A Poet's Warning
In June 1946, Harvard celebrated its long-awaited Victory Commencement. For the first time since the end of the Second World War, alumni and...
by Adam Kirsch
"Knitt Together...As One"
I stand honored by your trust, inspired by your charge. I am grateful to the Governing Boards for their confidence, and I thank all of you for...
Polo Renaissance
Yes, there was one gleaming black Bentley (but only one) parked on the greensward at Myopia Hunt Club in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. True...