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Radcliffe Consults Its Compass
The nascent Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, whose structure has gradually evolved from promise to particulars, continued taking shape...
Outsider inside the MCZ
Editor's note: Purcell grew up in Cambridge and was taken often to the Museum of Comparative Zoology. "I stood mute, appalled, at the age...
De Gustibus
Perhaps the most cheerful restaurant dining room in Cambridge is the main one at Up Stairs at the Pudding. But shed a tear. The delightful...
Off the Shelf
Recent books with a Harvard accent
Grading Game
Are grades inflated in the College--and does it matter? Debate over these questions is not new (see "Desperately Seeking Summa,"...
Concerning Obituaries
Concerning Obituaries On page 92T of the January-February issue, Deborah Smullyan pays a glowing tribute to Theodore Alvin Hall ’44, a...
The "Invisible University"
Postdocs Tristan Darland (left) and Pamela Kainz at Harvard's Biological Laboratories. Photograph by Jim Harrison They have been...
Homecoming
The arrangements and itinerary for the election and introduction of Harvard's twenty-seventh president, on Sunday, March 11, hewed to the...
Philanthropy in a New Key
John Sage and Christopher Dearnley weren't like most of their peers at Harvard Business School. Neither had financial training before enrolling...
Fifty Things to Do While YouÌre Here
Time doesn't stand still in Harvard Square, as the past and present views east (left, in 1956 and today) and west (right, in 1946 and...
The Empress of Domesticity
Displaying humor and an insatiable curiousity about the world, Martha Stewart charmed a Sanders Theatre audience. Photograph by Jim...