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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...
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...
Corporation Credentials
The newest member of Harvard’s senior governing board, Patricia A. King, J.D. ’69 (see “Brevia,” January-February, page...
The Marketplace of Perceptions
Like all revolutions in thought, this one began with anomalies, strange facts, odd observations that the prevailing wisdom could not explain...
Charting the Universe
Christopher Columbus can claim the world is round all he wants, but it doesn’t matterthe universe is flat. Paul L. Richards...