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In Allston Planning, the Silly Season
Expansion of the undergraduate student body, construction of as many as three new undergraduate Houses across the Charles River, and expansion...
A Grand Time
Three years ago, Luella Kramer's friends were shaking their heads. "They all thought I'd lost my mind," the retired nurse recalls...
Timothy Mitchison
Timothy MitchisonPhotograph by Jim Harrison"When I came to America, I found that if you could do something or had something to say, people...
Conflict in the Stacks
Library history used to be the sleepiest of all academic disciplines. Compared with the gripping narratives of military or political history, it...
Family Moviemakers
Every day in Dallas, people gather in Dealey Plaza to look up at the sixth floor of what once was the Texas School Book Depository. Some lay...
Fall Sports in Brief
Women's Soccer The netwomen (3-3-2, 1-0 Ivy) snapped Penn's 10-game unbeaten streak with a 2-1 home victory over the Quakers to open their Ivy...
Close Contact
The college-counseling suite in my high school, with its brochure-laden atrium, drawers of student files, and closed-door conferences, reminded...
Bedside Manner
Editor's note: Paul E. Farmer, M.D. '88, Ph.D. '90, is professor of medical anthropology in the department of social medicine. His title and...
Rethinking Education
Harvard's chief pedagogues are going back to class. The Graduate School of Education (GSE) is pursuing changes in its curriculum and internal...
Build Yourself a Democratic House
"Build a yurt with Bill and you witness his educational ideas in action. The yurt is his philosophy made visiblesecurity...
Journal Opener
Photograph by Hillel Burger. Courtesy of the Peabody Museum, Copyright © 2003 President and Fellows of Harvard College This altar at the...
Hypnosis Heals
Long considered by many the stock in trade of charlatans, hypnosis in fact can relieve the anxieties of patients in the midst of difficult...