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1923 Responding to a New York Times assertion that "information from Harvard, Princeton and Yale" indicates that the Volstead Act...

The Sisters McDavitt

Last fall, the Harvard field hockey squad was locked in a scoreless tie with Boston University. Though the teams had similar national rankings...

by Craig Lambert

Joy of Jades

This spearhead of nephrite jade set in a bronze socket embellished with turquoise, shown actual size, was crafted circa the thirteenth to the...

Making Directors Accountable

The many corporate scandals of the past two years have highlighted the importance of effective corporate governance. Cases that are by now...

Barer-Bones Budget

Greater cost-consciousness will become a part of Harvard's culture in much leaner University budgets for fiscal year 2005, beginning on July 1...

That Very Mad Affair

Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation (Knopf, $25.95), by David A. Price, J.D. '86, is a stylishly...

The Copernicus Quest

Owen Gingerich, Ph.D. '62, takes a seat on his "rocket cart"—a dolly with a steering stick in front, a straight-backed chair...

by Christopher Reed

Cambridge 02138

THE STADIUM'S CENTENNIALI was initially intrigued by the sidebar "Little Red Flag" in Craig Lambert and John Bethell's "First and...

News from the HAA

Alumni Abroad As classes resumed in Cambridge, alumni on both sides of the Atlantic were gearing up for the "Harvard in Europe&quot...

Life in Counterpoint

Few have ever faced the choice that Berenika Zakrzewski '04 had three years ago: Harvard or Juilliard? "It was exasperating," she...

by Craig Lambert

Economics and Moral Questions

Last fall, President Lawrence H. Summers spoke at the first Morning Prayers service of the semester at Memorial Church. His controversial...

Harvard Calendar

MUSIC. The Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society present a Winter's Evening Holiday Concert at the Pleasant Street Congregational...