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Chapter & Verse
Gerard Lenthall wishes to learn the identity of "Garamaz," a 1938 reference. Thomas Lemann would like a source for words attributed to...
A Sportive Spring
Spring sports roundup
Digital-age Policy
Who owns Harvard courses? Professors? The University?...
The Curse of Adonis
When professor of psychiatry Harrison G. Pope Jr. '69, M.P.H. '72, M.D. '74, began lifting weights in 1980, it was seen as "rare and exotic...
Cat, Frog, Worm...
The principal speakers during Commencement week 2000 said much about the value of reasoned inquiry, the importance of universities as a home for...
Core Curriculum
Technology and the transformation of identity, community, and commerce Moderator: Sherry Turkle '69, Ph.D. '76, professor of the...
Events
The summertime in Cambridge is a chance to savor life's all too swiftly passing moments. Take some time to spread out a picnic on the banks of...
Our Obedient Servant
Robert Shenton, Ph.D. '62, who died in February (see "Brevia," May-June, page 72), was secretary of the Governing Boards from 1971 to 1991...
Brevia
Romance in the Houses... An Allston Addition...
American Society Unglued?
Thinking about civic engagement
Back to the Drawing Board
Big building projects head back to the drawing board
Transitions
Harvard certainly knows how to mark significant milestones. At the end of this academic year, the University had suitable reasons to throw not...