Features

The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard

In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.

by Constantine Archimedes Valhouli

Faculty Diversity

When alumni, after a long absence, stroll through Harvard Yard or return to any other university campus, two questions usually come to mind:...

Spring Sampler

Photographs by Jim Harrison unless otherwise indicated. Objects © President and Fellows of Harvard College Here begins an excursion...

by Christopher Reed , Jennifer Carling

"Bobby" Jones

Jones connects at the Flintridge Golf Club in Los Angeles in 1931. Photograph courtesy Sidney L. Matthew. Photomontage by Bartek Malysa...

by Craig Lambert

America and Latin America

George W. Bush is not the first president to make Latin America a personal priority. Nor is he the first to drop the region from his agenda when...

Hop, Skip, and Soar

Post-doctoral fellow Gary Gillis plays "catcher" behind a tammar wallaby on a fast-moving treadmill. Hopping marsupials like...

by Jonathan Shaw

Waldo Peirce

Waldo Peirce '07/'08/'09 almost didn't graduate from Harvard. By his own admission he spent too much time in Leavitt and Peirce (no relation)...

Understanding Terrorism

Beyond the emotional reactions necessarily provoked by the terrorist attacks of September 11 and subsequent anthrax-tainted mailings, the events...

Battling Bioterrorism

When people started dying of inhalation anthrax in 1979 in Sverdlovsk, in the former Soviet Union, it took "six days to discern the outbreak...

by Jonathan Shaw

Conflict, Abroad and at Home

"That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies...

by John S. Rosenberg

The Community Scholar

Ahhng...ahhng...that strange sound somewhere between a ring and a buzzer announces a fire drill at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Lines of...