Features
How Women Are Changing the NBA
From coaching staffs to front offices, female leaders are bringing new strategies to men’s basketball.
Core Curriculum
Technology and the transformation of identity, community, and commerce Moderator: Sherry Turkle '69, Ph.D. '76, professor of the...
Ken Miyata
When he died at the age of 32, Kenneth Ichiro Miyata, Ph.D. '80, was one of the most famous fly-fishermen in the world. But even those who had...
What I Read at War
...sed carmina tantum nostra valent, Lycida, tela inter Martia, quantum Chaonias dicunt aquila...
Swing Time
The sweet and cool harmonies of Duke Ellington's Mood Indigo: clarinet, muted trombone, and trumpet atop the swingy walking bass of the banjo...
John Knowles Paine
Harvard's first professor of music was born in Portland, Maine, where his father led the town band, owned the music store, and published music...
Picking Harvard's Pocket
The entrance strategy was simple. On Saturday afternoon, December 1, 1973, a visitor to the Fogg Art Museum, a man in his twenties, left a brown...
A Better Way to Practice Medicine?
Looking at the relationship between doctor and patient, and the way healthcare is delivered in our country.
Earl Derr Biggers
I am quite sure that I never intended to travel the road of the mystery writer," wrote Earl Derr Biggers '07 for his twenty-fifth class reunion...
Deep Cravings
The bombshell dropped in 1976, when "The Natural History of Chipping" appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry. In their article, Norman...
The Eugenic Temptation
The full-page advertisement in the Harvard Crimson a year ago came as no surprise. The text was straightforward: Intelligent, Athletic Egg...