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Walking on Water: A Rowing Trifecta
Half a continent apart, on the weekend of May 31, three Harvard crews pulled off a feat unprecedented in the history of college rowing:...
Baker: About Face
Baker Library is empty of its books, staff, and readers. It is doing business elsewhere, at several locations both on and off the Business...
Lies about Harry
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Denison Beach has been hanging around the front steps of...
Multilateral Commencement
One might have anticipated that the volumes of talk from Harvard podiums during Commencement week, so soon after the smoke cleared in Baghdad...
Globalization Defended
Offering a confident defense of globalization, now assailed by many critics, Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers delivered this year's Edwin...
Metamorphoses
Long before it became a fraternity of the atrociously behaved and was taken out behind the barn and shot, the Pi Eta Speakers Club occupied a...
Introversion Unbound
A century ago, psychoanalysts declared that the human personality was largely fixed by age five. More recently, biologically oriented...
Texas Waves Hello
Harvardians journeying to the north side of San Antonio—the "Texas Hill Country"—may need only look skyward for a familiar...
Chapter & Verse
José Rigau would appreciate help in identifying the person (possibly French historian Charles Seignobos) who defined enlightened...
Respecting the Future
I doubt that I was the first farm boy accepted to Harvard University, but when I arrived in Cambridge you certainly could have fooled me. Fresh...
Caryn Davies is a champion rower
At the end of every e-mail from Caryn Davies '04 is a quotation from poet Rainer Maria Rilke: "You see, I want a lot./Perhaps I want...
Henry Francis du Pont
"I have not wandered very far afield," wrote Henry Francis du Pont, A.B. 1903, in his fiftieth reunion report. With characteristic...