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Castling in the Square

The Harvard Chess Club battles the clock and the competition by Paul Hoffman On the last Sunday in October, last year, four members of the...

Galileo and Benjamin Franklin on PBS

Two great scientists who could—theoretically—have taught at Harvard will be celebrated on television this fall with help from Harvard...

by Craig Lambert

Working on the Railroad

David L. Gunn '59, M.B.A. '64, has always been a railroader. Growing up in a Boston suburb, his family's vacations usually involved getting on...

by Garrett M. Graff

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ART MUSEUMS IN A NEW WORLD As aformer student in Harvard's fine arts department and now a professorof art history, I eagerly read Janet...

University People

Robert D. Reischauer Harvard News Office Familiar Fellow Robert D. Reischauer '63 was appointed to the Harvard Corporation (The...

Military Recruiters Get Official Welcome

For more than 20 years, military recruiters have been banned from working through the Law School's Office of Career Services because of the...

Hushed Voices

Sacred and secular, the University's observance of September 11 proved both a moving memorial to the thousands who lost their lives to...

An American Empire?

Only a year and a week separated the events of September 11, 2001, when Americans felt so vulnerable, from a presidential declaration in which...

The Naumburg Room of Harvard's Fogg Museum

Nettie Naumburg died in 1930 and left to Harvard Rembrandt's Portrait of an Old Man, a Franz Hals, a Rubens, a Holy Family by Murillo, a small...

The Uncertain Art

Sometimes wrong; never in doubt." Atul Gawande quotes this saying about surgeons in the opening pages of Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an...

Crimson, White, and Blue

On a campus steeped in lore and history, perhaps no history is more visibly honored than that of Harvard's warriors. Since the earliest days of...

by Garrett M. Graff

A Cluster of (Scholarly) Stars

The Radcliffe Institute, spreading its wings as a center for advanced study affiliated with a major research university, is extending the reach...