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School for Scholars
In what must have been Harvard's highest-level continuing-education course on higher education, presidents of seven universities in the People's Republic of China came to Cambridge to learn about the research university, American style, on October 29 and …
Yesterday's News
1920 The physical examination of all 700 Harvard freshmen, in connection with a new system of compulsory freshman athletics, has been completed, with each student classified according to his “bodily mechanics” (posture). Only 7.5 percent of the class …
Wired for Life
Forget the stereotypes of new technology being only for younger people. Seniors in growing numbers are exercising their mental muscles by surfing the Web, e-mailing friends and family, and trying out new software to research health issues, travel …
Sweet Finale
Once I knew an architect-in-training who dreamed of moving to Seattle and opening a restaurant devoted entirely to desserts. If only he had attended the Harvard Business School, like M.B.A. ’97 classmates Paul Conforti and Kim Moore. They run what their …
Sensational, Shocking Tabloid Run by Harvard Grad!
For a few months recently, the National Enquirer added a two-word prefix to its name on the cover: it was "The New National Enquirer ." The weekly supermarket tabloid, which can boast the largest newspaper circulation in the United States at 2.5 million, …
Health by the Numbers
"How many of you agree with the statement, 'Health is priceless'?" A robust show of hands. "How many of you went jogging this morning?" No hands. "Now what if I tell you that each hour spent jogging extends your expected life by an hour? So health does …
Beyond the Budget
"It was a very simple year." So Elizabeth C. Huidekoper, vice president for finance, characterizes Harvard's getting and spending for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1999. The annual Financial Report to the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, released …
Where the Bones Are
Documentary accounts of the historic past seldom capture the flavor of daily life hundreds of years ago. But broken pipestems, clay marbles, and chicken bones--mute castoffs--can say quite a lot about this aspect of a culture when interpreted by a …
Waving the Flag
IN 1913 Loomis Temple of Music of New Haven published sheet music for a Yale fight song called "Good Night Harvard." "Good-Night poor Har-vard, Har-vard Good-night!" goes the refrain. "We've got your number you're high as a kite. Oh, Oh, Oh, Good-Night …
The President's Grandfather
H ARVARD HAS about 125 notable old clocks. Fifty came in 1943 from Grenville L. Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. '89 (who gave to the Fogg Art Museum 3,700 treasures in all: archaic jades, paintings by Gainsborough and Ingres, Wedgwood in quantity, French …
Cambridge 02138
WOMANLESS HISTORY As a recipient of a generation's worth of alumni mailings, I've known in an intuitive way that Harvard as an institution has a blind spot about women ("Harvard's Womanless History," November-December 1999, page 50). As parent of a …
Fixing Medieval Wine
Every year, French wholesalers airlift cases of Beaujolais Nouveau worldwide so that wine shops can start selling bottles to the public on the third Thursday in November. In the unlikely event that the contents have not traveled well, a customer merely …
Parish+Precinct=Peaceful Streets
It was yet another funeral for yet another young man killed in yet another drive-by shooting. But this time the violence didn't wait while others mourned. Even before the service ended, gang conflicts erupted into gunshots and a stabbing within the …
Grumbling among the Woodwinds
Lush notes from your violin resound through gilt-edged halls. Hushed audiences listen as you enthrall them with Beethoven or Prokofiev. Hundreds of admirers burst into applause at each concert's end. Musicians who play in major symphony orchestras--each …
Fictions of Science
In November, 1997, a curious report emerged from physicists at the California Institute of Technology, who claimed that certain subatomic particles could move from one place to another without physically traversing the intervening space. "It sounded to …