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The President and the Professions
University presidents, in general, find the machinations of medical schools arcane, strangely complex, and at times suspiciously devious. Neil...
Chapter & Verse
Edith Kovach seeks the author and additional text of a poem she believes was titled "The Father Mole to His Son," which ended...
Exploding Evolution
Evolution will occur wherever organisms display variation, differences in fitness, and the capacity for inheritance. Humans have always sped up...
The B.A. Diploma from A to Z
The first Harvard diploma in English instead of Latin appeared in 1961. When word of the abandonment of Latin came through in April, it touched...
Who Are You, Anyway?
I remember when my younger sister Charlotte received her acceptance letter from Harvard. I shrieked and performed an atavistic dance of sibling...
Science and Politics and Stem Cells
Scientists became alarmed this spring when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) canceled a meeting to review applications for federally...
Jumping English-style
They make an odd sight on the sidewalk. Rising at 4 a.m. on Saturday morning, the riders don their high black leather boots, jodhpurs, hunt...
A Life with Lycaenids
At the first lab she attended in a course on terrestrial arthropods, Naomi Pierce was expected to dissect a cockroach. Not the familiar kind we...
The Listener
What strikes me about Neil Rudenstine is that he has never ceased being a scholar and a teacher. He arranged to offer a week-long seminar during...
John Adams, Up-front Guy
In this twenty-first century era of the second President George Bush, it seems peculiarly appropriate that one of America's leading biographers...
Arts Transition
At a special dinner in May, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy Knowles ended his lighthearted remarks by presenting a pair of gifts...