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Steel and Skin

Rising at 60 Oxford Street is the University Information Services Building. Stepped-down on the Hammond Street side, the building, designed...

2002 Senior Marshals

Photographs by Gerard Hammond (inset) and Stu Rosner The senior marshals, looking ahead to Commencement 2002, are: (inset) first...

Changing the College Curriculum

The renovation of Harvard's undergraduate course of study took two piecemeal steps forward during the late winter and early spring, even as the...

Physical Educator

It's sleek, curvy, firm, well-balanced—Paul Widerman '83 has created a sculpture that can make you feel as good as it looks. &#11...

Murasaki Shikibu

The Japanese woman who wrote the extraordinary Tale of Genji a thousand years ago is known only by a nickname. Her given name went unrecorded...

Winter Sports

Men's Ice Hockey In a season filled with thrilling come-from-behind and overtime wins, the icemen (15-15-4 overall; 14-9-3 ECAC; 4-5-1 Ivy)...

Jambalaya

Harvest's main dining room. The outdoor terrace can be a pleasant alternative. Photograph courtesy of Harvest Restaurant The landmark...

by Christopher Reed

Crimson Women

Two years in the making, the Women's Guide to Harvard was distributed to students—women and men alike—at the beginning of spring term...

Overcommitted Undergraduates?

Dean Harry R. Lewis begins his annual report on Harvard College for the previous academic year (available at www.college.harvard.edu/dean/) with...

Why Do Yellow Birds Sing?

A plant of modest beauty and legendary elusiveness, Shortia galacifolia, called Oconee bells or little coltsfoot, is a woodland, evergreen...

Short, Stubby, Sexy

The little green car nosed its way into the concrete lobby of the Graduate School of Design in late January. At Harvard for a two-month visit to...

Faculty Diversity: some additional statistics

Supplemental statistics to "Forum: Faculty Diversity," in the March-April, 2002 edition of Harvard Magazine...