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Global Perspective At a time of war, shifting international alliances, and reassessment of the gains from "globalization" of the world...
Cutting Costs
With budgets tightening around Harvard (see the profile of new financial vice president Ann E. Berman), President Lawrence H. Summers has put...
Conquest of the Air
Orville Wright's historic first flight lasted just 12 seconds. The Wright Flyer traveled 120 feet, a skip across the sand at Kitty Hawk's Kill...
Estimable Seniors
Every year, Harvard College unleashes some 1,600 fresh graduates, all full of the potential to bring their considerable education, talents, and...
Yesterday's News
1923 Samuel M. Scott, A.B. 1886, questions "the rapid increase in membership" at the College and its impact on quality and efficiency. Scott...
Societal Doctor
Can doctors teach the rest of us to follow a piece of advice from Hippocrates—"Help, or at least, do no harm" —when dealing...
The Watertown Agreement
The fact that Harvard has agreed to pay Watertown $3.8 million annually plus 3 percent compounded over 52 years (see "Watertown-Gown...
Quantity Time
Four years ago, when my first child was two years old and I was six months pregnant, I left my law career to become a stay-at-home mother...
Unveiled
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. '89, had a passion for beauty. He had financial resources, leisure, and eclectic tastes, and...
"We tend to over-intellectualize everything."
by NICK MALIS '99 Age 25, Los Angeles. Screenwriter People always say that no one dates in college. Let me clarify. Cool...
Jabber and Bael
In simpler times, Southerners ate Krispy Kremes and New Englanders ate Dunkin' Donuts. Texans wore cowboy hats and New Yorkers wore black...
Yesterday's News
1928 The first reading period at Harvard College has proven successful in bolstering student achievement. The Bulletin cites an increase in...