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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.
Brief life of Harvard football pioneer William Henry Lewis
Brief life of a football pioneer: 1868-1949
Exiting Iraq
I have chosen to discuss Iraq in part because there are over 150,000 Americans serving there in the military, as well as U.S. civilians:...
Frances Glessner Lee
To a forensic investigator, trivial details can reveal transgressive acts. Consider the card Frances Glessner Lee carried in her later years...
Caves
Robert Creeley ’47 died on March 30, shortly after being named the poet for the Literary Exercises conducted annually by Harvard’s...
The Slave Rebellion in New York City
Historian Jill Lepore explores the lives of slaves during an alleged eighteenth century uprising
The Aging Enigma
Is aging necessary? Are the wrinkles and gray hair, weakening muscles, neurodegeneration, reduced cardiovascular function, and increased risk of...
Deep into Sleep
Not long ago, a psychiatrist in private practice telephoned associate professor of psychiatry Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist...
Brief biographical sketch of poet Elizabeth Bishop
By the time Elizabeth Bishop settled into her apartment on the Boston waterfront, in recently refurbished Lewis Wharf, it was 1974. She was 63...
India's Promise
Things have never been as good for India as they appear to be today. Its economy has grown by nearly 6 percent annually for the past...
Mad for Degas
In 1911 the little Fogg Art Museum mounted the only one-man museum exhibition to occur during his lifetime of works by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar...