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Harvard overseers
Election Results The membersof the Board of Overseers have elected Thomas S. Williams Jr. '68 theirnew president. He succeeds Richard E...
"Upon The Occasion of Your Graduation"
Althoughlet us be right out front there is nothing gradual about it. Surely your progress has been digestively slow, Has...
Dating at Harvard circa 2002
For the first two years of my college career, I was single. Though I dated a bit, I found the romantic waters of Harvard Yard extremely cold...
Free Speech: Testing
So often was he grilled by the press in the days before he delivered his controversial address, that Zayed M. Yasin '02 prepared a handout of...
In from the Margins
The first radiant spring day formed an auspicious backdrop for President Lawrence H. Summers's first decanal appointment, on April 9. Ellen...
Trafficking in Chance
The dozens of ATM machines lining the entrances to the Mohegan Sun casino don't operate in quite the usual way. If you withdraw $400 in cash...
Off the Shelf
Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, by Catherine Orenstein '90 (Basic Books, $25). Much we need...
Yesterday's News
1937 A 1.2-million-volt x-ray machine has been installed in the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital, a department of the University, to...
Counting the Costs
What would it take to address the financial problems of particularly needy students who want to pursue their graduate or professional education...
A Rebel with Numerous Causes
It was November 1966, and Carl Pope '67, stationed in front of Quincy House, was about to get one of his first tastes of political activism...
Lessons from Dairy Queen: a memorable 2002 student speech by Avery W. Gardiner
Lessons from Dairy Queen: a memorable student speech by Avery W. Gardiner '97, J.D. '02
University People
From HCF to HBS Under executive director Richard B. Boardman, the Harvard College Fund has become the premier annual giving organization in...