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A Scientific Windfall for the University?

A prestigious research institute in east Cambridge, and its 110,000-square-foot facility overlooking the Charles River, may soon be merged into...

Widener Library: Youthful at the Core

The rejuvenation of Widener Library progresses. The Phillips Reading Room opened for use in October, a major new something-to-see. It is one of...

Women, Working

When Harvard Business School's Baker Library amassed the bulk of its manuscript collection in the first half of the twentieth century, curators...

Waldo Peirce

Waldo Peirce '07/'08/'09 almost didn't graduate from Harvard. By his own admission he spent too much time in Leavitt and Peirce (no relation)...

Comings and Goings

Local Harvard clubs organize a number of lectures and social events. What follows is a list of some of the gatherings planned. For further...

Obsessed at Harvard

Artist and writer Edward Gorey '50, who died in 1999, once told a would-be interviewer, "The facts of my life are so few, tedious, and...

Harvard football undefeated in 2001

After a pair of 5-5 seasons sullied by inopportune turnovers and second-half meltdowns, head football coach Tim Murphy took a new pedagogical...

by Bethell, John T

Airing Out the Living Wage

The occupation of Massachusetts Hall last spring by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM)--proponents of a minimum "living wage" of...

David Carrasco

In the hands of this man, ideas become living things. An historian of religion who holds joint appointments in the department of anthropology...

News from the HAA

Congratulations The HAA clubs committee recognizes publicly those who provide exemplary service to a Harvard club. This year's winners of the...

Islam's Political Polyphony

In 60 nations around the world, Muslims constitute a majority of the population--but there is no single role for Islam in Muslim politics...

by Jean Martin

Teaching Values

Should discussions of moral principles form part of the curriculum in public schools? Katherine Simon '85 has been thinking about this for a...