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Wolffs on the Diamond

Father-son parallels aren’t rare, but Rick Wolff ’73 and John Wolff ’06 have followed the same course into professional...

Money Rules

The legend on the engraving Gellt Zeucht die Weltt, below, sums up the message of the exhibition Coin and Conscience: Popular Views of Money...

Spring Lax Snapshots

Lacrosse The men’s team (4-2, 1-0 Ivy) took down Penn, 13-8, in their Ivy opener and captured a thrilling triple-overtime 8-7 win over...

Weighing In

The resignation of President Lawrence H. Summers became grist for a torrent of commentary worldwide, much of it highly political, even...

Women's Center

At the end of a year that has seen various plans for the College (including the curricular review) mark time or unravel, matters are quietly...

by Elizabeth S. Widdicombe

The College within the University

D. Ronald Daniel: There’s a very special governance issue at Harvard. That is the role of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences [FAS] in the...

Aid Augmented

To make attending the College more affordable for lower- and middle-income families, Harvard has extended the financial-aid initiative it...

Of Mice and Hands

"Computer use does not cause carpal tunnel syndrome.” Moreover, “no one has proven that the disease is made worse by work on a...

by Christopher Reed

The Events of the Week

The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, which this year includes addresses by President Lawrence H. Summers and PBS news anchor...

Harvard@Home

The University’s on-line learning initiative has released two new segments. One highlights the fall 2005 conference on women and war, the...

The Busy-ness School

“Is there no one in this House who plays basketball?” the e-mail reads. I feel a twinge of guilt. I signed up to play intramural...

by John A. La Rue

Francis James Child

Francis James Child, A.B. 1846, was a model of nineteenth-century academic achievement. Named Harvard’s Boylston professor of rhetoric and...