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The many rituals of Harvard graduation peak on June 10, Commencement day, which includes the annual addresses by President Lawrence H. Summers...
Mediation via Movie
When Carlos Sandoval '74 first presented Farmingville, the 2004 Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary he wrote and codirected, to...
Chapter & Verse
Nicholas Puner requests leads to lost favorites. In the first, a short story, a man is driven progressively around the bend by a malefactor who...
Harvard@Home: Arts On-line
Whether you're a regular at Arts First or you've yet to attend, you can experience the event's highlights on-line thanks to Harvard@Home. Arts...
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THE POWER OF EXERCISE "The Deadliest Sin," by Jonathan Shaw (March-April, page 36), is the first article that I have seen to discuss...
Going Home Again
The final project for my fall semester writing course freshman year was an autobiographical narrative in the style of Faulkner's The Sound and...
Arts' Rising Place
The practice of the arts is in the ascendant at Harvard. And even though there is not now enough space to contain this explosion of student...
The Brahmin Rebel
Last year, the publication of his Collected Poems returned Robert Lowell '39 to the center stage of American poetry. From 1946, when he won the...
by Adam Kirsch
Kick-off Event
Guests enjoyed a lively reading by and discussion with Helen Vendler.
"Extraordinary Bonuses"
Harvard's plans to complete its "North Campus" in Cambridge took an important step forward when the University reached an agreement...
Rethinking College
The current review of Harvard's undergraduate curriculum has become the widest imaginable inquiry into teaching and learning at the College...
Pliable Paradigms
If ever someone understood the challenges of changing people's minds, it was Charles Darwin. After doing his research in the Galápagos...