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Red Books, Raw Gems
Please tell your classmates, in a paragraph or two, what you would like them to know about your activities, interests, family life, career...
Off the Shelf
A Natural History of North American Trees, by Donald Culross Peattie ’22, illustrated by Paul Landacre (Houghton Mifflin, $40). This is a...
Disruptive Influences
He was a world-beater before he arrived at Harvard. In 2003, as a new high-school graduate, Greg Cohen ’07 played on the U.S. under-19...
What's Past Is Prologue
Sage Stossel ’93, executive editor of The Atlantic Online, regularly contributes editorial illustrations to the Boston Globe. She prepared...
Yesterday's News
1912 Mrs. George D. Widener reveals plans to build a library at Harvard in memory of her son, Harry Elkins Widener ’07, who perished with...
"...I don't care if I never get back."
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Baseball fan Philip J. Lowry ’71, M.B.A. ’79, of...
Construction Gallery
Photograph by Jim Harrison [view larger photograph] Seen from atop William James Hall (and in detailed views below), the...
Interim Successor Named for Ailing FAS Dean
Pilbeam served on the faculty’s Task Force on General Education, whose recommendations are the basis of draft legislation the faculty is now debating...
FAS Dean is Ill; Curriculum Review Continues
The president urged the faculty to address the business at hand so all present could “give a good account of ourselves” when Knowles was able to resume his duties...
For Science and Engineering, New Life
In January, the Harvard Corporation authorized the establishment of the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC), allocating...
Lessons from the SARS Epidemic
The SARS coronavirus epidemic provides lessons in how to combat zoonoses such as Ebola, swine, and avian flu.
Judy Budnitz: Flying Leaps
In Nice Big American Baby, the newest collection of short stories by Judy Budnitz ’95, the author considers mothers and babies—and...