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Harvard's sailing team captured the National Co-ed Championship in Grosse Point
In June, Harvard's sailing team captured the National Co-ed Championship in Grosse Point, Michigan. It was the first such title since 1974 and...
"Prevention Creep"
In shopping malls around the country, medical businesses sell ultrasound and CT (computed tomography) scans to healthy but vigilant customers...
Pushing Civil Rights
In the spring of 1996, the appellate court decision in Hopwood v. Texas landed like a thunderclap in higher education. The Fifth Circuit, which...
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi
Carmen Arnold-BiucchiPhotograph by Jim HarrisonHarvard's first curator of numismatic collections, overseeing a trove of 22,000 coins in the...
The Voices from On High
In 1930, Harvard hired its first public-address announcer for home football games, and in the intervening 73 years, the position has turned over...
"Teaching yoga is just pure pleasure."
Deborah Cohen views her job, in large part, as front-line preventative care. "A lot of the ailments that take people to the doctor's office...
News from the HAA
• Alumni Abroad • Well Done • Harvard@Home • Hiram Hunn Awards • Call for Nominations Alumni Abroad The Harvard...
A Victory for Bach (and Biggs)
The great concert organistand sometime radio-broadcast starE. Power Biggs brought fame to himself and limelight to Harvard on an...
Debunking the Double
On the third day of my eight-week stint as a summer-school proctor, the mother of one of my charges reminded me of the difficulties that can...
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PYRAMID BUILDERSI read withgreat interest "Who Built thePyramids?" by Jonathan Shaw (July-August, page 42), describingMark Lehner's...
Diggin' It: Summer in Cambridge
Expansion of Harvard's Cambridge campus continued this summer as the University built what will be its largest underground space: a subterranean...
River Mid-Rise
The strong geometry of Machado and Silvetti Associates' contemporary architecture rises 15 stories in a modern interpretation of Harvard housing...