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Ticking... Tocking Restored
One day last autumn, the clock in the tower of Adolphus Busch Hall stopped. Grime, exhausted bushings, and a pinion worn halfway through. In...
For Radcliffe: A "Founding Dean"
For Radcliffe: A "Founding Dean" Looking ahead: new Radcliffe dean Drew Gilpin Faust, acting dean Mary Maples Dunn, and President Neil L...
Picking Harvard's Pocket
The entrance strategy was simple. On Saturday afternoon, December 1, 1973, a visitor to the Fogg Art Museum, a man in his twenties, left a brown...
Grace Notes
"Harvard should exert control over the music played at academic ceremonies," recommended John Sullivan Dwight, A.B. 1832, for 20 years...
News from the Harvard Alumni Association
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Apocrypha Now
Women as priests in early Christianity
"Where I Was Meant to Be"
"She was pretty much the topic of anyone and everyone's conversation ..."
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The eugenic temptation, raising boys, Beowulf, F.O. Matthiessen
The College's Course of Study
The College's Course of Study Harvard undergraduates' course work has become steadily more demanding, requiring "much more alertness and...
Events of the Week
The commencement festivities conclude with addresses by President Neil L. Rudenstine, Amartya K. Sen and Seamus Heaney. Top MONDAY, JUNE 5...
Alyssa Goodman
When she was an eight-year-old living on Long Island, Alyssa Goodman, Ph.D. '89, wrote to two oceanic research centers, Scripps and Woods Hole. "I wanted to be Jacques Cousteau," ...
Chapter & Verse
Lester Welch hopes to find a source for "You Care--I Dare," a didactic passage that ends, "If you love me, don't sing me your song. Teach me to...