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Tying the Knot
In late Ma y, before 200 hushed and expectant onlookers, David Lambert '98 and I performed the undergraduate unspeakable: we committed matrimony. Most of the guests had witnessed the genesis of our love during our first year, or had watched it grow during …
The Expos Problem
Janet Rosenbaum '98 was one of the most successful students of her year in the College's expository writing program (Expos). Not only did she earn an A in the course, but her paper on "Carbon Computers and Silicon Brains" won publication in Exposé , a …
Upstream Warrior
In retrospect, it seems like a moment of epiphany, but on that Saturday in June 1963, it was simply a day of rough, stormy weather on the Thames River in New London, Connecticut. No one could remember the Harvard- Yale crew race ever having been …
Oxonians in the Making
Thirty-two students from the United States won Rhodes Scholarships this year, and eight of them are at Harvard, which led the nation in the production of successful candidates for the award for the fourth straight year. The applicant pool numbered 1,041 …
Loker Lunch
Loker Commons, Harvard's new student-center-cum-food-court, spreads out in the reclaimed basement of Memorial Hall. Descend through the new brick and granite entry facing the Science Center and start taking in the motif: utilitarian gray beams, ceiling, …
Langdell Remodels, Tomes in Transit
Harvard Law School is dismantling its library in Langdell Hall in preparation for a major remodeling of the building. "We had to decide whether to remodel piecemeal or all at once," says Harry Martin, librarian and professor of law. "Piecemeal would have …
Elliot Hammerman
When Elliot Hammerman applied in 1986 for the job as machinist at the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory, he had to undergo five interviews on separate occasions. He began to be fed up with the process. During his fifth interview, one of his scientific …
Fiscal Affairs
Like that other big bureaucracy, in Washington, D.C., Harvard has been struggling to balance its budget. According to the most recent Financial Report to the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, prepared by Allen J. Proctor, vice president for finance, …
Concerning the Union, Disunion
The freshman have had their last supper in the Harvard Union. On January 29 the Great Hall, where students dined for decades, was empty. But not for long. Construction work began in early February on a $23-million makeover of the Union, which will become …
Changing Places, Changing Times
From 1874 until 1925, Harvard undergraduates took meals in the vastness of Memorial Hall's Alumni Hall. When they departed, the place was empty most of the time; students registered, gave blood, and took examinations there, and alumni drank in the …
Getting Along
At the Start of freshman year, my entry way neighbors and I were summoned to a meeting on diversity. On a Saturday morning, we filed into a room in Boylston Hall expecting another in the endless series of mandatory Freshman Week meetings. The discussion …
Keeping Faith
When Harvard College was founded to educate aspiring Protestant ministers in the seventeenth century, its supporters could hardly have imagined a day when religious faith was not the center and the purpose of students' lives and vocations. Three hundred …
The Internet Generation
It's midnight , and using electronic mail (e-mail) feels like pouring cold molasses. This is one of the busiest times on Harvard's network, with the most students connected. Thousands of messages are pouring through the Internet like cars merging onto a …
The Harvard-Radcliffe Entente, Continued
Founded in 1879 as the Harvard Annex, Radcliffe's original purpose was to offer women access to instruction by Harvard's faculty. Until 1943, women took courses separately from men; instruction was fully integrated in the mid-1940s, despite the resentment …
The (Other) Yard
When I first came to Harvard , the word "Radcliffe" evoked little more than confusion and ambivalence. When friends and family spotted the name in the barrage of Harvard pamphlets and paraphernalia I received the summer before freshman year and asked its …