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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...
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...
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
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...
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...