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A Magnificent Acquisition
Piet Mondrian's Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow, and Red is now part of the University's art collections, thanks to a gift from the family of its original owners, supplemented by financial support from an anonymous donor and the Friends of the …
Issue: March-April 2000
Mental Health Services Examined
In an effort to provide Harvard students with better mental-health care--a more accessible and tightly coordinated network of services--a provost-appointed committee has issued a report with recommendations for University-wide improvements. "The years of …
Issue: March-April 2000
The Faculty Weighs In, circa 1899
Whether a new millennium and century have arrived or not—let it pass—Dean Jeremy R. Knowles made the last Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting of 1999, held on December 14 in University Hall, an occasion to reflect on changing academic fashions. …
Issue: March-April 2000
Quest for the Best
How to help academically distinguished, but economically and socially disadvantaged, high-school students succeed in college and later in life? One model, proven over the past six years, involves intensive enrichment before they complete high …
Issue: March-April 2000
Sharing the Wealth
For the second year in a row, the President and Fellows of Harvard College have authorized a larger-than-usual increase in the distribution from the endowment to support the operations of the schools and the University. In November 1998 the Corporation …
Issue: March-April 2000
Why Not.com
What surprises me most about senior year is how much it resembles freshman year--especially in the chronic questions that haunt conversations with my parents and friends. What do you want to do with your life? Aren't you going to be rich and change the …
Issue: March-April 2000
"Un original"
As is its custom, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting of December 14, 1999, began with memorial minutes commemorating deceased colleagues. Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley H. Hoffmann presented the tribute to Laurence Wylie, Dillon professor …
Issue: March-April 2000
Brevia
Quitting Kirkland House Continuing a generational change among leaders of the undergraduate Houses, Kirkland master Donald H. Pfister and co-master Cathleen K. Pfister—at present the senior members of that group—announced in January their decision …
Issue: March-April 2000
Killer Killar
Last year, the second most impressive thing about Joey Killar's season was how much of the time he spent not wrestling. Competing at 165 pounds, the junior won the Ivy League Classic tournament and took third at the strong Las Vegas Invitational. But …
Issue: March-April 2000
Yo-Yo Ma's Journeys
A warm, breezy day in July, and beneficent providence has set for me a sumptuous lunch overlooking God's own landscape near Tanglewood, on the patio at Wheatleigh, the poshest hotel in the Berkshires. This is theoretically a business lunch. But never has …
Issue: March-April 2000
The Eugenic Temptation
The full-page advertisement in the Harvard Crimson a year ago came as no surprise. The text was straightforward: Intelligent, Athletic Egg Donor Needed For Loving Family. You must be at least 5´ 10´´ / Have a 1400+ SAT score / Possess no major family …
Issue: March-April 2000
Name Game
The University Campaign is one for the record books: by far exceeding its $2.1-billion goal, it became the most successful such effort ever conducted by an institution of higher education. Administrators, deans, volunteers, and the nearly 175,000 …
Issue: March-April 2000
Events of Note
FILM. This April, African cinema will take center stage at the Harvard Film Archive, beginning with African Film Festival 2000 (on April 12-16); the archive is hosting Boston screenings for the festival's New York-based organizers. And between April 28 …
Issue: March-April 2000
Saltcellar as Symbol
A salt can be "an element that gives flavor or zest," but a new local restaurant chooses a different metaphor: "Throughout history, the offer of salt has been regarded as the offer of hospitality," its menu declares. This warm and welcoming bistro, …
Issue: March-April 2000
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 mix of new and old faces and places. The Square has seen numerous changes--national stores like Pacific …
Issue: March-April 2000