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Why Harvard Needs International Students
Global challenges demand global experiences
Hertzberg of the New Yorker
On a January evening in 1977, at the old New Yorker offices on West 43rd Street, a going-away party was in progress for Hendrik Hertzberg '65, a...
Economic Woman
Women's work? A traveling exhibition offers engaging examples:Elizabeth Murray (1726-1785), a colonial "she-merchant" who ran a...
Simple Hosts
There is no florist in the lobby of Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston. In fact, anyone who attempts to deliver a get-well begonia or a...
Phenome Fellow
In a Marist monastery in southern Bavaria, 11-year-old Hans Hofmann began his classical education. "I studied Greek, Latin, and...
Paul Cabot
Crack! Paul Cabot pulled his ROTC rifle back from his dorm's open window and surveyed the damage. Students had been holding a dance in the Yard...
An American Empire?
Only a year and a week separated the events of September 11, 2001, when Americans felt so vulnerable, from a presidential declaration in which...
Anne Hutchinson
On June 2, 1922, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts received from the Anne Hutchinson Memorial Association and the State Federation of Women's...
The Great Global Experiment
During a recent Alaska study cruise cosponsored by the Harvard Museum of Natural History, James J. McCarthy stopped at several islands with...
Castling in the Square
The Harvard Chess Club battles the clock and the competition by Paul Hoffman On the last Sunday in October, last year, four members of the...
On the Road with Death
In a world where buses are "flying coffins" and "moving morgues" and pedestrians should tremble, pulblic-health experts take on a neglected...