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Longer-lasting Harvardians

In his foreward to the anniversary report of the class of 1954, class secretary John T. Bethell made some upbeat observations about longevity...

Addition by Subtraction

Harvard undergraduates would be much freer than they are now to shape a course of study if the recommendations of the "Report on the...

Designs for the Dance

When impresario Serge Diaghilev launched his Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909, he injected into the tired corpus of European ballet a massive...

Engineer of Fictions

When Thomas McMahon, McKay professor of applied mechanics and professor of biology, died unexpectedly of heart failure on Valentine's Day, 1999...

by Nathan Heller

Cushioning Hard Memories

The more you love a memory," Vladimir Nabokov once declared, "the stronger and stranger it is." Certainly we never forget the details of our...

Hope-builder

Luke Patrick Winston '03 traveled 7,500 miles — from Las Vegas, New Mexico, to Harvard, and now on to Santiago, Chile — to find his...

by John S. Rosenberg

Johnson and Friends Arrive en Masse

One of the world's most important private collections of eighteenth-century English literature — with the lexicographer, author, critic...

Spring Sports

RowingThe men's heavyweight crew capped its second consecutive undefeated season by repeating as national champions at the Intercollegiate...

Honoris Causa

Three women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 353rd Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced them to the Commencement...

This Old (Red) House

For most of its 202-year history, the cottage at 98 Winthrop Street has been a private residence. A year ago, Paul Overgaag, owner of the now...

by Christopher Reed

Justin Kaplan reviews "A Chance Meeting," by Rachel Cohen

For years, side by side with a photograph of my best dog ever, I've kept on my office mantelpiece Mathew Brady's portrait of the 11-year-old...

Harvard Calendar

THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents The Miser, by Molière, at the Loeb Drama Center through July 11. Those musical jugglers...