Latest News

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...

by Christopher Reed

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

In Honored Company ... Pride of Place ... Comings and Goings ... Vote and Be Heard ...

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 ..."

by Craig Lambert

Cambridge 02138

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...