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The 350th Leadership
It was a sollemnia semisaecularia septima occasion,* but little was made of that, and all the traditional revelries and ceremonial benedictions...
University People
Richard E. Oldenburg '54 was elected president of the Board of Overseers for 2001-2002, his last year of service on the board. He succeeded...
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...
Honors Due
Each year the HAA awards the Harvard Medal to three individuals who have rendered extraordinary service to the University. At the association's...
Women in Science Redux
Since the summer of 1999, members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and its dean, Jeremy R. Knowles, have sought to increase the number...