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Research Roster
Harvard hums with research. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, the University received $429 million in sponsored-research support...
Down East Dazzlers
One day in 1820 amateur naturalists Elijah Hamlin and Ezekiel Holmes were poking around on a hill in Paris, Maine, in the southwestern part...
News from the HAA
Applauded Established in 1990, the Harvard Alumni Association Awards recognize alumni who provide exemplary volunteer service to the University...
Athlete-in-Chief
Bob Scalise Courtesy Harvard Sports Information In 1978, Harvard won the Ivy League's first women's soccer championship, and that...
The Sorry State of Harvard Football
In both 1949 and 1950 Harvard won only a single football game; in 1951 Yale won just two. Princeton, however, "had used its alumni to...
Brevia
Money Managers Move For the fourth time since 1998, a group of Harvard Management Company (HMC) investment professionals have decamped, seeking...
Human origins driven by technological and cultural revolutions
Ofer Bar-Yosef argues that cultural and technological revolutions have been more important than biological ones during the past 100, 000 years.
The Law School Looks Ahead
The future of professional education at Harvard promises much closer interaction between professors and students, especially during their...
A Matter of Style
Harvard has infiltrated such unlikely enclaves as Hollywood and the National Football League; now it is making inroads on Seventh Avenue...
Shakespeare's "Tenth Muse"?
Illustration by Bartek Malysa Perhaps the second-most-cultivated plant in Elizabethan England, after wheat, was hemp--Cannabis sativa...
Siren Song
October 31, 2000, 4 p.m. I've just had one of those brief but potent conversations in which a casual comment by someone I scarcely know hits me...
by Miriam Udel
A High-Priced Product
Readers of this hefty work will frequently think of Samuel Johnson on Paradise Lost: "None ever wished it longer than it is." But they...