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Commencement Confetti
EDUCATED MEN AND WOMEN On Commencement day, Thursday, June 7, Harvard conferred 6,871 degrees and 138 certificates. The College granted 1,694 of...
A "Better Answer"
The search for Harvard’s twenty-eighth president began under difficult circumstances. Lawrence H. Summers’s resignation on February...
Cambridge Scholars
Four seniors have won Harvard Cambridge scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2006-2007 academic year. History concentrator...
Off the Shelf
Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff, by Rosemary Mahoney ’83 (Little, Brown, $23.99). “I am not afraid to die; I...
Sports Wrap
SoftballThe softballers (31-15, 15-6 Ivy) won the league championship, with Ivy Pitcher of the Year Shelly Madick ’08 (16-6) tossing a...
College curriculum change completed
During the second weekend in May, just before the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) met on May 15 for its final discussion of a proposed new...
"For what purpose?"
Excerpts from the Commencement address by William H. Gates III, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft Corporation and co-founder and co-chair of...
Reducing the federal deficit won't solve the current account deficit on its own
In the Reagan era, the federal government ran budget deficits almost as big as the current account deficit is today—at their peak, on the...
Extracurriculars
Life should be as free as a summer’s breeze in New England. Take some time this season to get out and try something utterly new: discover...
Voicings: John Adams
The celebrated Nixon in China (1987) by composer John Adams ’69, A.M. ’72, was the first of four operas that, along with many...
New Leaders
The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and the new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) were announced at...
Faculty Faith
In their early years, many American universities had openly religious agendas. Harvard’s own mission, according to a 1643 pamphlet, was...