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The Harvard Man, Redefined
The Harvard Financial Aid Initiative has made it easier for students from families of modest means to attend...
Allston Plans in the News
The only certainty within the framework of Harvard’s existing Allston campus plans is the construction of a four-building science complex...
New Graduate School Dean
Brandt will succeed Theda Skocpol, Thomas professor of government and sociology, who became dean in 2005 but announced her intention to step down last spring...
Harvard Liberalizes Undergraduate Financial Aid
Harvard’s new initiative will take effect for all students—those continuing their College education, and those enrolling as first-years—beginning in the fall of 2008. Harvard estimated...
From Passes to Puccini?
Noah Van Niel '08, a fullback for Harvard's 2007 Ivy League champion football team, aspires to become a professional opera singer after graduation...
Running Shoes and a Wrap Dress
In an interview with Eugenia Levenson '03, Peluso shares her secrets for staying sane while living out of a suitcase...
"If you don't move forward-you begin to move backward"
In a speech at Harvard on December 4, Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who led the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991, urged today’s world leaders to place nuclear disarmament...
An Evening With the Editor
Magazine donors gathered at Loeb House in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
White marble sculptures of antiquity
The English essayist and critic William Hazlitt gazed on the white marble sculptures of antiquity and thought them cold. “[T]he finest...
A gigantic dragonfly, and its modern descendants
When Harvard curator of fossil insects Frank M. Carpenter dug up this wing in an Oklahoma prairie in 1940, he held a piece of the first evidence...
Lights! Camera! Action!
It’s now 104 years old, but after a three-stage, $5-million makeover, Harvard Stadium may be one of the nation’s best-equipped...
"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...