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The Oldest Ever?
Walter Seward, LL.B. ’24, turned 109 in October, making him the oldest living—and longest lived—Harvard alumnus known. He was...
Marc Shell
Marc Shell Photograph by Stu Rosner Marc Shell is Babbitt professor of comparative literature, a professor of English, a MacArthur...
Where East Meets West
Although the Harvard-Yenching Institute is housed on Divinity Avenue, at the eastern boundary of the University’s Cambridge campus...
Blue Genes or Red?
Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba says he used to joke that our politics are written in our genes. “I made the argument that...
Growth is Good
Economists have always been very good at detailing the material consequences of modern economic growth. It makes us taller: we are perhaps seven...
The Law of Dissimilars
Humans have a natural propensity to distrust the “other.” The classic social-psychology experiment in which individuals are randomly...
Olympic Fever
“Harvard in the Olympics,” an alumni college offered by the HAA and the Harvard Varsity Club, features alumni discussing their...
Elsewhere
Since 2001, College students’ international experiences during their Harvard years—formal study abroad, research, work or public...
Off the Glass, On the Ice
Basketball With a 71-50 dismembering of New Hampshire, the men (5-0) became only the third Crimson squad in the last 47 years to go undefeated...
Courses of Study
Perusing the course catalog for first-year Harvard Medical School (HMS) students, Mark Hanudel felt that “Living with Life-Threatening...
War, and Women
In November 1945, the International Military Tribunal began its prosecution of Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg, Germany. Nuremberg and...
The Middle Class on the Precipice
During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure...