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"Humiditas"

Sodden ones. In Tercentenary Theatre candidates for the degree of doctor of dental medicine await the conferring of their credentials...

Why Can't Computers Age With Us?

Barbara Leondar, Ed.D. '68, never used computers at work. E-mail was virtually nonexistent when she retired in 1991, as were personal computers...

by Nell Porter-Brown

Designed to Shop

Goethe—no doubt inspired by European masterpieces—described architecture as "frozen music." The Wal-Marts and Home Depots of...

Taking the Lead

Marion Coppelman Epstein Photograph by Jim Harrison Although rain washed out the traditional alumni parade, Marion Coppelman Epstein...

Harvard's Financial Aid Failings

"For those moving from warmer climates, inexpensive winter clothing can be purchased at local second-hand clothing stores, consignment...

Harvard Girl

For the last two years, Harvard junior Yiting Liu has been at the epicenter of a new phenomenon in her native China: celebrity status for Ivy...

by Eugenia V. Levenson

Scenes from Commencement

Jim Harrison Seniors are led to Baccalaureate by class marshals (from left) Daniel Droller, of Eliot House and Pelham, New York; first...

Honor Roll

Prized Professors From left to right: Stephen Rosen, William Todd III, Jeremy Bloxham, and Marc Hauser Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office...

Owen Wister

One hundred years ago, the Macmillan Company published The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains, a novel about an unnamed Wyoming cattleman. The...

Chapter & Verse

Robert Boardman seeks a source for the assertion that, if political and military leaders are from different backgrounds, "the armies will be...

Cambridge 02138

BELLUM AMERICANUM Never have I read anything as arrogant as Stephen Peter Rosen's "The Future of War and the American Military&quot...

An Asia Expert for Arts and Sciences

The brief, intense search for a new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) concluded May 20, when President Lawrence H. Summers...