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John Harvard Didn't Sleep Here
For three-quarters of a century, the Harvard rooms at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, have hosted graduates of the New England university named for...
Harvard Medalists
Three alumni, each "represent[ing] the best of our broad community" according to the Board of Overseers and the HAA's Alumni Awards Committee...
Scott V. Edwards
Scott V. EdwardsPhotograph by Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Hatched in Hawaii, fledged in the Bronx, and sighted above with some of...
Cole Porter to Coolio
They're dancing on the Steinway piano. And on the parquet, the Persian rugs, and the oak tables. The room is reverberating to a song called...
Stem-cell Science
Portraits by Stu Rosner The next time you look in a mirror, reflect on this: the face staring back at you is literally not the same one you...
Chapter & Verse
Winthrop Drake Thies seeks the legal citation for a British Admiralty case "which supported the necessity of the foreign tribunal having...
Mugged on Park Avenue
The stories of Manhattan's outrageous apartment prices are legendary: residents routinely pay through the nose for a studio roughly the size of...
Academic Freedom and Ethical Limits
New technologies create controversy. They challenge our thinking, leading to debate and concern. When recombinant DNA was discovered, the city...
Aiding Financial Aid
Two recent gifts and a change in graduate-student support, respectively, bolster Harvard's efforts to encourage public service; help students...
Gone Missing
On June 18, 1903, on the occasion of Frederick Thayer's twenty-fifth reunion, his teammates presented him with the "first catcher's mask ever...
Commencement Confetti
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF (MORE BETTER)"Our records of the first Commencement, in 1642, show that all nine students received diplomas," President...
Caliphate of Terror
This year, a group of international terrorists announced its intention to affect an election with the goal of replacing a government that...