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University People
The care and nurturing of the 3,100 students and 2,200 scholars who come from abroad to study, teach, or hold fellowships at Harvard annually...
Refreshing the Fellows
The President and Fellows of Harvard College, as the executive governing board of the University is officially titled, has returned to full...
Stealing the Catalog along with the Coins
"Incredible as it seems to the uninitiated, there was no overall inventory of the University coins," wrote Professor George M.A. Hanfmann in...
Postscript
In its September-October 1996 issue, Harvard Magazine published "The Millenial Class," a selection of admissions essays submitted by six...
e-bio
Parallel Lives, the now classic multibiography by Phyllis (Davidoff) Rose '64, Ph.D. '70, broke new ground in 1983 by examining the lives of...
High Fashion, Sub-Saharan
The ironies abound: women who can scarcely put food on the table cut elegant figures on city streets. Families who live in rundown concrete...
Winter Wonders
In March, Dora Gyorffy '01 became NCAA national indoor high jump champion ...
Diagnosing Dementia
Millions of Americans live in fear of developing Alzheimer's disease. Yet only a relatively small proportion, surprisingly, ever get an...
WorldÌs Greatest University Takes Heat
World's Greatest University Takes Heat Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, the largest health plan in Massachusetts, having experienced huge losses...
Expanding the Professoriate
Samuel Gompers, a founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor, succinctly summarized its aims as "More!" It is unlikely...
Earl Derr Biggers
I am quite sure that I never intended to travel the road of the mystery writer," wrote Earl Derr Biggers '07 for his twenty-fifth class reunion...
The Square, Revisited
The more things change, the more they stay the same. That's the refrain visitors to Harvard Square may be humming this spring as they cruise its...