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The Builder
Several summers ago, at an idyllic weekend of chamber music in Marlboro, Vermont, Neil Rudenstine asked me if we could meet between concerts for...
Kick Kennedy and Evelyn Waugh
Amanda Smith '89, A.M. '92, is a doctoral candidate in English at Harvard. She is also the granddaughter of Joseph P. Kennedy '12 and the editor...
Events
THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, at the Loeb Drama Center from June 19 through July...
Lisa McGirr
"My one regret about being an Americanist," says Lisa McGirr, who has just been promoted to associate professor of history, "is...
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WHEN GRADE INFLATION DID NOT BEGIN Eight years ago this magazine gave major coverage to what seemed the burgeoning of grade inflation...
Bono and other speakers from Commencement 2001
Bono and other speakers from Commencement 2001
The International President
On a chilly tuesday morning, March 24, 1998, Neil L. Rudenstine and Angelica Zander Rudenstine, accompanied by a small group of Harvard...
Neil L. Rudenstine president Harvard
Only 10 years ago, at the end of the 1990-1991 academic year, Harvard and the higher-education universe were very far from their current robust...
Prosperity and the Pill
Hailed as a medical miracle, the birth-control pill has been lauded and vilified for its virtually fail-safe powers as an oral contraceptive...
Yesterday's News
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Trove of Tomes
On a Saturday in April, two vans from New York drove up to Langdell Library at the Law School and off-loaded about a thousand early English law...