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1936 Harvard adopts a new parietal rule, stating that "Students living in the Houses will be given permission to entertain ladies in their...
New Direction
New HAA president Karen Spencer Kelly '80 Photograph by Justin Allardyce Knight Karen Spencer Kelly '80 opened her first speech as...
Where the Gentrified Antelope Play
Three decades ago, Davis Square in Somerville was the pits. A Cambridge matron who lives nearby recalls walking her children over there for ice...
Chapter & Verse
James Lyon asks for the source of the poem: "I know not to what strange and mystic ends/Fate willed that I survived my friends;/Though in a...
Loss
One of the trying rituals faced by a newly arrived freshman at Harvard is that of endless introduction. It is almost impossible not to feel...
The "Great Good Place"
Harvard University hadn't been my first choice for post-graduate English studies, and I wouldn't have been there if the University of London had...
Don Share
Photograph by Rose Lincoln Across from Don Share's desk hangs a photograph of Robert Lowell '37, Litt.D. '66, the poet Share...
A Matter of Words
How many Harvard graduates have a job description that includes "quiz-show panelist"? If you guessed "At least one," go on...
"Hypochondria of the Heart"
In 1688 a Swiss doctor, Johannes Hofer, identified a new medical syndrome, nostalgia: "the sad mood originating from the desire for return...
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DOES HARVARD REALLY WANT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING? "Living wage" proponents, sitting in at Massachusetts Hall last spring...
Buttonhook and Aloha
Record-breaking passer Rose, going aerial last fall Photograph courtesy Harvard Sports Information Talk about spectacular entrances: In...
From Playwriting to Physics
The Radcliffe Institute's 2001-2002 fellows include a sculptor, a filmmaker, a painter, and two composers; a poet, a novelist, two playwrights...