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Geoffrey Fowler in the other Cambridge, minding where he walks, finding time for friendships and tea, and punting--a skill he never learned at Harvard despite living in Eliot House, hard by the Charles.

Over There

Geoffrey A. Fowler '00, who served as one of this magazine's Ledecky undergraduate Fellows, has been spending the current academic year in England...

Miss North Dakota, et al.

Pick a Harvard undergraduate almost at random and you will be astonished by the range of his or her accomplishments...

Not President Eliot's five-foot shelf. By this summer, the majority of Widener's collections will be stored off site in the Harvard Depository. How are users to have access to them?

Cataloging Library Needs

Calling for a new library for the sciences and for initiatives by the Harvard College Library...

The display cases at the present Museum of Natural History are much as they were in the nineteenth century. Below left: A noisy air-conditioning unit does its best to maintain conditions suitable for the celebrated glass flowers. Below right: The lack of climate control has cracked the hide of a stuffed animal.

Another Museum Proposed

Harvard has floated the idea that it build an important new museum of natural and cultural history on some yet-to-be-determined site in Allston at some time in the not-too-distant future...

Photograph by John Lawler

Down-Home Elegance

The incongruous pleasure of No. 9 Park lies in its homey elegance.

StreetSquash (left) and SquashBusters teams with mentors Polsky and Zaff (back row, second and fourth from left).

Squash Without Walls

Some say English prisoners invented the game of squash, rapping a ball off the walls of their jail cells...

by Craig Lambert

Inhaling Distress

After 40 years of scientific and news reports on tobacco's hazards, smoking today may be a fundamentally irrational act.

Courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Light-Outerbridge Collection. Photograph by Rick Stafford

Brevia

More than 660 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch landscape prints have been added to the Harvard University Art Museums collection...

Not Building by the Book

With 90 Mount Auburn Street, avant-garde Harvard Square may soon be home to one of the architectural "gems"...

The majority of adult Americans have no use for books. Justin Kaplan is in the minority.

Justin Kaplan, editor of Bartlett's “Familiar Quotations," reveals his m.o.

Hunting quintessential quotations with the editor of Barlett's

by Christopher Reed

Hemp on His Agenda

Long a favorite of hippies and hikers, Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap...

Chapter & Verse

John Mitchell requests the source and the rest (if any) of a ditty that begins...