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The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
Zane Grey—profile of a novelist
Brief life of an American original: 1872-1939
Hello, Geotech
Take your geographic information system (GIS) for a spin around the block. Its easy. Sit at your computer, which you have loaded with GIS...
Seamus Heaney, profiled by Adam Kirsch
One of the most revealing questions you can ask about any poet has to do with his sense of responsibility
by Adam Kirsch
Summers in Summary
Lawrence H. Summers brought to the Harvard presidency prodigious energy and a penchant for framing the University’s future in visionary terms.
History and Democracy
Editor’s note: Introducing himself as a Princeton professor wearing a Yale gown as he prepared to address a Harvard audience, historian...
Edwin Ginn
There will be no need of great national armies,” Edwin Ginn declaimed in 1901, once an international force controlled by a league of...
An Education in Ethics
Last January 13, in the amphitheater of Aldrich Hall 107, Henry B. Reiling began taking his students through the quaint details of a real-estate...
“The Grand Wake for Harvard Indifference”
At noon on November 16, 1938, some 500 Harvard and Radcliffe students jammed Emerson Hall to express their outrage at Kristallnacht, as the...
Fixing Foreign Policy
This essay is adapted from the 2005-2006 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture, delivered on April 24 under the sponsorship of the Radcliffe...
Hervey White
Splendiferous in his purple Russian blouse, with shaggy hair and beard, Hervey White, A.B. 1894, helped transform a tiny village in the...