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Historic Henley
Even given the storied history of Harvard crew, it was an unprecedented day. On Sunday, July 7, the final day of the Henley Royal Regatta in...
HOLLIS Improved
Choosing the relative peace of July, when the inevitable bugs could be dealt with calmly, the University Library released a greatly improved...
Laura Justine Garwin
Laura Justine Garwin Photograph by Stu Rosner After trumpeting with Harvard's jazz, concert, and marching bands, the Bach Society...
Reverence for the Object
"...in every prosperous municipality in the land, in the next ten years the call is likely to come for thoroughly equipped...
How to Live?
Life happens. Decisions are made. Where do the two converge? How do you reconcile your "destiny" with more practical needs? "Many...
Superlative Surfaces
A Muslim performs ritual prayer, the salåt, five times a day, and pays attention to certain prescribed obligations while doing so...
Behind the Rampages
Their namesand their respective tragediesare now a part of the American lexicon: Littleton, Colorado; Paducah, Kentucky; Jonesboro...
Mastering in the '70s
In the spring of 1973 Harvard president Derek Bok asked my husband, Jim Vorenberg, to be master of Dunster House. We had been married three...
Getting Centered
Almost unnoticed, much of the University's scholarly work has migrated from departments and individual professors' offices to...
Charles Follen
Student revolutionary, political refugee, gymnastics instructor, radical abolitionist clergyman: German-born Karl Follen was an unusual Harvard...
Disease Fighter
Barry Wald '78 was diagnosed with Steinert's Disease, a rare form of muscular dystrophy (MD), 13 years ago. Because of the muscle deterioration...