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Honoris Causa
Honorary degrees
With a Little Help from Harvard's Friends
On Saturday morning, May 13, the dull gray of the sky over Cambridge brightened the white dogwood beside the Faculty Club, colored more deeply...
A Lifetime with Bach
For some music lovers, it may be a relief when the 250th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach passes on July 28. Though he has...
The Oldest Graduate
The oldest alumna
The Half-life of Robin and Kim
By now firemen, policemen, and mailmen sound like cultural relics from the 1950s next to the no-nonsense firefighters, police officers, and...
'60s Generation Confronts '90s Protest
Student protests then and now
Distance Learning @Harvard.edu
New technologies, changing demographics, and the emergence of richly funded, Internet-based e-learning ventures may lead to serious upheavals...
Oratorical Exchanges
On the fourth day of a celebration of Harvard's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, on November 5 through 8, 1886, Professor James Russell...
Harvard news and notes, spring 2000
The University Brevia PH.D. MAGIC: Illustration by Rick Stromoski Each Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Bulletin features "BackTalk," a...
Inc.@theCollege
When Alex M. Rampell '03 started investigating college options, the young inventor's computer program--which sells for $15 and combats...
John Knowles Paine
Harvard's first professor of music was born in Portland, Maine, where his father led the town band, owned the music store, and published music...
Lost Art
The Harvard Dictionary of Music defined "improvisation" in 1969 as "[t]he art of performing music spontaneously, without the aid of manuscript...