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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...

by Kirstin Butler

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...

by Craig Lambert

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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...

by Craig Lambert

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...

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...