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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...

Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments on display

At last, Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments has come up from its hiding place....

by Christopher Reed

Curl Up with the Cloud-gatherer

"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." This spring Harvard University Press publishes the...

Karts Get Some Respect

Stephan Wilkinson ’58, automotive editor at Popular Science, is said to be a longtime expert on the way men entertain themselves when no...

HAA Clubs Committee Awards

The HAA Clubs Committee presents two annual awards for contributions to Harvard clubs. Recipients of the 2005 Outstanding Club Contribution...

Sex and the Inner City

The sexual and romantic habits of urban black males have long been a subject of scrutiny. Forty years ago, the Moynihan Report—The Negro...

Campaigning, College-Style

The Undergraduate Council (UC) unveiled 24-hour Lamont Library access and fatter grants for student groups early in the fall, but soon...

John Simon

John Simon Peter North Critic John Simon ’46, Ph.D. ’59, celebrated for his acerbic reviews in New York...

Capital Costs

The dimensions of Harvard’s current building boom—readily obvious to sidewalk superintendents along Memorial Drive at Western...

Sharing the Wealth

Distributions from the endowment now make up the largest source of Harvard’s operating revenues: $855 million, or 31 percent of University...

The People's Epidemiologists

In the city of Boston—and everywhere else—wealth equals health. If you live in Beacon Hill’s Louisburg Square, which sits in the...

Alumni Colleges

The HAA offers Cambridge forums on South Asia and diplomacy this spring. “South Asia: A Changing World,” on April 22, is cosponsored...