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Installation: A Summers Day
Lawrence H. Summers, Ph.D. '82, matriculated formally as Harvard's twenty-seventh president on October 12. The occasion had many of the...
In the Eye of the Storm
Regularly the dismal news streams in from Japan. The "lost decade"--dating from the early 1990s, when the country's seemingly...
Off the Shelf
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America, by John F. Kasson '66 (Hill and Wang, $26)...
Nabob of the No-huddle
The National Football League (NFL) has had only one head coach with a Harvard degree, but he was an awfully good one. This year, Marv Levy, A.M...
Installation Roistering
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." The first installation of a Harvard president about which we...
Brevia
CONCEIVING CUBISM. The Fogg Art Museum has acquired Georges Braque's La Baie de l'Estaque (Bay of l'Estaque), painted in 1908. Created during...
Ways and Means: Harvard's Wage Debate
In partial response to the "living-wage" sit-in at Massachusetts Hall last spring and demands for a $10.25 hourly minimum wage for the...
Your Harvard Classics
"What books would you choose for a twenty-first century Harvard Classics?" the editors asked readers (November-December, page 56), inviting them to submit lists of 10 books...
The California Meltdown
by William H. Hogan A decade ago, California, along with other states and federal policymakers, began to rethink its approach to the...
Radcliffe Ramps Up
Things are different at Fay House. As the academic year begins, Drew Gilpin Faust, the Civil War historian who is the first dean of the...
Harvard Offers Peace Pipe
Butch Thunderhawk, a Hunkpapa Sioux artist, and his colleague Wayne Pruse, both of the United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North...
Yesterday's News
1936 Harvard adopts a new parietal rule, stating that "Students living in the Houses will be given permission to entertain ladies in their...