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Extracurriculars
The University and its environs offer a robust mix of activities this fall, ranging from watching boat races on the Charles River and feasting...
Harvard's "Wider Communities"
The new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Yuki Moore Laurenti ’79, plans to expand on the organization’s...
Cheering Chow
Each year, about 19 million adult Americans report the onset of depression, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. That’s...
Brevia
Silent Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Harvard Year Book Publications U.S. Senators seeking a paper trail of the career and views of...
University Housing on the Rise
More than 300 units of new housing (500 beds), primarily for graduate students but some for faculty and staff, are being built on two sites in...
Diversity Director
Evelynn M. Hammonds has become Harvard’s first senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity. She will direct implementation...
Frances Glessner Lee
To a forensic investigator, trivial details can reveal transgressive acts. Consider the card Frances Glessner Lee carried in her later years...
Hot Off the Press!
The University has printed 11,000 new alumni directories, most of which were scheduled to be shipped in mid August. The hardback volume lists...
Off the Shelf
Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and the Consequences of Independence, by Conrad Edick Wright ’72 (University of Massachusetts Press...
The Long Goodbye
On a rainy summer’s night in New York City, a month after graduation, a group of my college friends meet for dinner...
Cambridge 02138
Understanding Sleep Your readers should know something of what was left out of “Deep into Sleep,” by Craig Lambert (May-June, page...
The Shrouds of Cambridge
Perhaps the best business on campus this summer was the rental concession for scaffolding and the rolls of plastic mesh used to wrap building...