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Developmental Troubles

When the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) was disbanded in 2000, it meant the disappearance of the University's largest...

Dorm Decor

"To me [my room] will always be haunted by my companions who have been there, by the books that I have read there, by the pleasure and the...

Chapter & Verse

Lewis Robinson asks who wrote of never seeing a man with a large house and barn without imagining him carrying the house and barn on his back....

Recovered Memory

Campus turmoil tumbled into Robinson Hall during the 1969 strike, when students turned the building into a factory for the production of...

Jimmy Rushing sings the Harvard Blues, with difficulty

I wear Brooks clothes and white shoes all the time...

Inhibited Killers

Until recently, teenage violence was widely considered a deplorable and tragic phenomenon of inner cities. Experts linked childhood aggression...

First Impression

Anna Harkey's cylinder seal, when rolled across damp clay, yields an autobiography in relief. The image includes her name in English, the year...

H-R History Online

Have you an urgent need to know the number of genito-urinary disorders in horses that doctors treated at the Free Clinic of Harvard's Veterinary...

Harvard Patterns

Every time a Harvard office hires an architect, designer, or planner—and that happens frequently—plans and maps and other kinds of...

Testing Trap

Supporters of the reauthorization, last January, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act hail it for tightening school accountability...

Yesterday's News

1922 The Harvard community is delighted that Leavitt and Peirce, long the unofficial "headquarters for Harvard men," has a new...

Letter from Kayenta

I live among the red rocks of the Southwest and the "red men" who are native to them. The Navajo Reservation is a desolate place with...