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Countering Alcohol
In the fall of 2003, dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross—once an undergraduate here himself—paused in his work as a...
Exit Gray, Enter Keohane
Corporation member Hanna Holborn Gray, Ph.D. '57, will step down from the President and Fellows of Harvard College...
George Ticknor
By today's standards, Harvard College before the Civil War was a provincial academy, competent (judged Henry Adams) at preparing students to...
Into the Inferno, with Notebook
Ragtop down, a spectacular view of San Francisco Bay and the city below suddenly opens up for two seconds as we tear around another bend...
Genji in Love
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Art Museums © President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeJust as a pair of Mandarin ducks, a symbol...
The Dance of Intellect
For generations now, critics as well as poets have debated what relationship, if any, poetry has to rational thought. The majority view is that...
Homecomings
I think the enormity of my decision hit me when the plane flew out of Sydney airport and I watched the famous Opera House, its distinctive half...
Yearning for “Big Humanities”
Many of Harvard's leading humanities scholars convened on October 22 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Humanities Center—and to...
Tenure and Gender
Thirty-two photographs hang on the curving wall along the spiral staircase that connects the economics department offices in Littauer Center...
Militant about "Islamism"
"It's a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian...
Extracurriculars
A full slate of events can be found throughout the University this season, ranging from South African plays, Japanese calligraphy, and Viennese...
The Real Dan Fenn
Due to errors at the HAA, the entry about HAA Award winner Dan Huntington Fenn Jr. '44, A.M. '72, in the November-December issue contained...