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 1926 The annual picture-taking of freshmen and seniors in front of Widener breaks up when the former, ordered off the steps by the latter...

Chapter & Verse

Rick Stanford asks if anyone can provide the title and author of a poem that begins with the line, “Twenty inglorious Miltons looked at a...

Cambridge 02138

Harvard continues to be an acute embarrassment to me, but unfortunately not to itself. It will take my beloved College 20 years to overcome the...

stellar seniors

Each year, Harvard College grants degrees to some 1,600 students, each of whom possesses gifts and abilities that count in the wider world. The...

Swashbuckling National Champions

The Harvard men’s and women’s fencing teams combined to win the NCAA national championship, the first in program history, in Houston...

The Interim Agenda

Derek Bok, Harvard’s president from 1971 to 1991, resumes those duties on July 1 on an interim basis until a permanent successor to...

The Schools’ Size

Harvard’s schools vary not only in their mission and in the composition of their faculties and student bodies, but also in financial...

A Melting World

Photographs by David Arnold and H. Bradford Washburn The breathtaking aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers shot by H. Bradford...

by Jonathan Shaw

Kevin Eggan

Kevin Eggan Photograph by Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Last year Kevin Eggan was a Junior Fellow at Harvard. He met developmental...

Assessing Admissions

In his new book, The Chosen, Jerome Karabel ’72, Ph.D. ’77, offers a provocative account of undergraduate admissions at Harvard...

From Science to Song

Like a 370-year-old adolescent, Harvard is in the middle of a growth spurt. In fact, if the building boom under way in Cambridge and the...

Comings and Goings

University clubs offer a variety of stimulating gatherings. Here is a list of Harv-ard-affiliated speakers appearing at local clubs this spring...