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Finding Work That Works for You

Sticking with one job, one company, or even a single career is much less common than it used to be. This can be a blessing--or a burden. Some...

by Nell Porter-Brown

Britain-bound

Eight Harvard seniors will cross the Atlantic to study at Oxford next year as Marshall and Rhodes Scholars. Sarah Moss has been an avid...

Virtual Mass. Hall

Having brought his office in Massachusetts Hall into the personal-computer age (see "July 2, Day 1," September-October 2001, page 57)...

A Foray into Digital Preservation

Scholarly journals today are born digital, and in increasing numbers of cases, no paper edition is ever published. Typically, only one...

Harvard in Drag: The Collected Works

In the bowels of the Hasty Pudding building at 12 Holyoke Street, a clubhouse with theater built in 1888, is the so-called Elephant Room, a...

Harvard on the Block

Harvardiana from the collection of Michael Droller. He thinks that the doll, circa 1950, may be one of a kind, unlike the turtle (below)...

Spring Sampler

Photographs by Jim Harrison unless otherwise indicated. Objects © President and Fellows of Harvard College Here begins an excursion...

by Christopher Reed , Jennifer Carling

A Romantic Swim

Chapter & Verse

Thomas Bettman requests the source of a fragment from Hart Crane that he remembers: "The poetry of despair is beautiful, alas, but I must...

Down by the River

State-of-the-art one-bedroom condominiums within walking distance of Harvard Square can go for more than $400,000 these days. Even faculty...

First Fellow's Farewell

Concluding 27 years of service as a member of the Harvard Corporation, Robert G. Stone Jr. '45 will step down as a Fellow of Harvard College at...