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Chapter & Verse

Arnold Schwab asks if someone can identify "Fougère," a reference in an 1895 review of The Importance of Being Earnest in which Cecily is...

Missing Man

"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Reader William R. Crout, S.T.B. '58, A.M. '69, founder and...

Theory of the "Marathon Man"

You're watching the Boston Marathon, awestruck, as always, by the runners' strength, endurance, and determination. Mile after mile, the elite...

Diamonds for Tiffany

Last year's Ivy League Player of the Year, Whitton hits for average, power, and RBIs Photograph by Jim Harrison Late in the season last...

by Craig Lambert

Pillars of the Economy

As deteriorating local-government finances collide with expanding — and property-tax-exempt — campuses, Boston-area research...

Deconstructing the College Deanship

Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean William C. Kirby is creating a new structure to manage undergraduate life at Harvard. He expects to...

Festival Feasts

Merry reunioners, incipient graduates, proud parents, beaming sweeties, celebrants at this year's Commencement-time festival rites, may wish to...

by John S. Rosenberg

A Box of Pox

Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D. (hon.) 1786, called smallpox the "devouring monster." Today it is the only naturally occurring disease...

"Entering the Elite"

An apocryphal tale about car-window decals epitomizes the frenzy surrounding college admissions in recent years. One high-school counselor tells...

Hooray for Harvardwood

Alumni in Hollywood rolled out the red carpet for 14 undergraduates

by Nell Porter-Brown

Stage One

Two years ago, Emily Knapp '03 was slated to be the assistant director for a production of Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown, which the...

by Craig Lambert

CFO for Tighter Times

The University's fiscal affairs are now in the hands of Ann E. Berman, who was appointed vice president for finance and chief financial officer...