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Meeting of the Faculty, February 15, 2005
At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on February 15, 2005, the formal agenda proposed two principal business items...
Arts and Sciences Dean to Leave Office
Close observers were not surprised that Kirby relinquished the deanship. A senior University administrator said, “No one who is around here is unaware that...
Pipes's Partner
No study of Daniel Pipes would be complete without a few words about the trenchant Martin Kramer, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near...
Back to School
Christoph H. Schmidt '55 and his wife, Babette, initially retired to their summer home in Cushing, Maine, but after several years, they moved...
How to Cook a Thesis
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by."The senior thesis, a big chunk of original work, is the culmination...
Down and Out in Paris and Boston
Outgoing North Carolina senator John Edwards wasn't the first person to notice the Second America, which he described in a primary campaign...
Fall Sports Championships
Field HockeyThe stickwomen (11-7, 6-1 Ivy) won a share (with Penn) of their first Ivy title since 1991. The Crimson's 3-1 victory over the...
Sources of Funding
Endowment income distributed for operations makes up the largest share of Harvard’s revenue: 31 percent in the fiscal year ended June 30...
Global Health Aims HIGH
After a year of consulting with fellow faculty members, the steering committee of the newly named Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH...
Measuring the Other
Physical anthropologist Henry Field led an expedition to southern Iraq in 1934 for an anthropometric study of the Marsh Arabs, or Ma'dan...
Completing the Century
From photographer Berenice Abbott to labor activist Elaine Black Yoneda, from Wyoming governor Nellie Tayloe Ross (born in 1876) to Tejana...
Gathering Together
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has events lined up in Cambridge, Los Angeles, and Mexico this winter.On January 22, alumni will gather in...