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Dedicating Maxwell Dworkin
How is it that a famous liberal-arts center like Harvard, home to what is arguably the world's first computer, could also be called the birthplace of the world's most successful software company? Are we sure we're not talking about MIT? At the dedication …
Bruce Jenkins
As an undergraduate working for the New York University cinema studies department, Bruce Jenkins operated a technological device that has changed but little in the last century: the film projector. "I love it--it's the last vestige of the machine age in …
First Nights
Cat-calls and hisses succeeded the playing of the first few bars, and then ensued a battery of screams, countered by a foil of applause. We warred over art (some of us thought it was and some thought it wasn't)....Some forty of the protestants were forced …
The Students' "Splendid Misery"
Students at Harvard Law School have always complained about their splendid misery, citing the cutthroat competition, overcrowded classes, and aloof faculty. But last year Dean Robert Clark decided to do something about it: he brought in the consulting firm …
Sisters in Thin Air
The tallest group of women ever to play basketball for Harvard is now on the court. They're not just high, but mighty: "This is potentially the most talented team I've ever coached," says Kathy Delaney-Smith, now in her eighteenth year at the helm of …
Harvard on Housing
Deepening its involvement in Boston and Cambridge, Harvard has pledged financial support for affordable housing in the two cities. At a news conference held November 10 before an enthusiastic audience that included both cities' mayors, state …
Harvard Then and Now: The Decade Detailed
… Value of Endowment, Average Salaries, and other statistics; 1990 and 2000. … 15 … Harvard Then and Now: The Decade Detailed … Harvard Then and Now: The Decade Detailed … …
Honors in Full
This year's Harvard Alumni Association Award winners were publicly recognized on October 28, at the fall meeting of HAA directors. The following citations were read to thank the honorees for their outstanding contributions as volunteers. Richard H. Harris …
Reunion in Beijing
In October, the author known by the ultracapitalistic pseudonym "Adam Smith"--in reality, George "Jerry" W. Goodman '52--sat down for a friendly 90-minute interview with an avowed communist and long-time Chinese government official. The interviewee, Ji …
Fall Sports Synopsized
Women’s Soccer Undefeated in the ivies , the Crimson side (14-2-1 overall, 6-0-0 Ivy) won their fourth league title in five years. Harvard had a sterling run this fall, dropping only two matches, both by 1-0 scores. The first, an early loss to New …
Outside Interests
There are some ways in which Harvard College, for all its history and prestige, is a normal college with normal students. The undergraduates are interested in their studies. They're concerned about careers after graduation. (They watch the fluctuations in …
Burned at the Buzzer
T he big hit of the New York theater season in 1894 was William Gillette's Too Much Johnson. It was a farce, but when it was revived at Yale Bowl on November 20, it played out as tragedy for the Crimson faithful attending the 116th Harvard-Yale football …
Brevia
Animal-Rights Threats Opposition to the use of animals in biomedical research (the subject of this magazine's January-February 1999 cover story) took a more threatening turn in October. A group calling itself the "Justice Department"--which has been …
A Student in Beijing
Thousands of bicycles. Ubiquitous laundry lines. Hard beds and squat toilets. Metal meal tins. White bureaucratic slips of paper with red stamps--all assaulted by dust from the Gobi desert and a coal-induced haze. Many Western students go into culture …
"Hell's Aardvarks" at 50
In the antediluvian days before e-mail, the Harvard Crimson's notice column published an alphabetical list announcing student events. Space limitations often swallowed notices at the end of the alphabet--like those of Harvard Yearbook Publications (HYP), …