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The Long View
From its very first day, the Harvard College class of 1950 has been remarkable. Its ranks swollen by the tide of returning veterans, the 2,000...
Enduring Duck
This rare bird is a bronze ewer made in China in the Warring States period (481-221 B.C.), a time so called because the Zhou dynasty had lost...
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
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 ..."
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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...
In the Streets and in the Studio
Ben Shahn liked to tell the story of being introduced to someone as "Shahn the painter" and being asked if he was any relation to "Shahn the...