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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...

America and Latin America

George W. Bush is not the first president to make Latin America a personal priority. Nor is he the first to drop the region from his agenda when...

Harvard at Home

The University's on-line educational venture, Harvard at Home, offers a number of new vignettes on topics ranging from terrorism and Islamic...

Brevia

Past and Present Presidents William Jefferson Clinton spoke to an overflow crowd in the Gordon Track and Tennis Center on November 19...