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Scholars Galore
What a difference a year makes! In 2005, Harvard affiliates earned one Marshall Scholarship and two Rhodes Scholarships. In 2006, those numbers...
General Education, Finally Defined
Following extensive consultation with colleagues throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the Task Force on General Education has...
Toward Top-Tier Teaching
A task force on teaching proposed in late January that members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) enter into a “compact” to...
Edward Gorey
Although he died almost seven years ago, Edward Gorey ’50 has just brought out a new book. Amphigorey Again, the fourth anthology of...
"The Monet of the Mountaintop"
Peter C. Liman, M.A.T. ’63, spent his business career as a marketing executive in toiletries and over-the-counter...
News from the HAA
Candidates for Election This spring, five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board...
A Personal Genome Machine?
In a laboratory behind the Science Center, researchers are working on a high-stakes project at the nexus of physics and biology. If all goes...
The Rub on the Pub
Undergraduates will soon be able to relax in a new campus pub, scheduled to open early in April. The gathering spot is part of a $4.5-million...
Student Financial Assistance: FY 2005
Financial support for degree-candidate students amounts to a half-billion-dollar-plus commitment by the University. These data, from fiscal year...
Harvard’s 50-Year Plan
Ten million square feet of new buildings, as many as 12,000 new jobs, and many billions of dollars: the numbers alone suggest the scope of...
Chapter & Verse
Wayles Brown asks whether anyone can provide an exact source and the precise wording for a comment often attributed to Oscar Wilde: “The...
Families grapple with preserving properties through the generations
Although I have spent only a month or two here each year for four decades, I have always thought of it as home, if home is the one place that...