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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.
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...
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...
Yo-Yo Ma's Journeys
A warm, breezy day in July, and beneficent providence has set for me a sumptuous lunch overlooking God's own landscape near Tanglewood, on the...
In the Streets and in the Studio
Ben Shahn liked to tell the story of being introduced to someone as "Shahn the painter" and being asked if he was any relation to "Shahn the...
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...
Lawrence Lessig on the increasing regulation of cyberspace
On liberty in cyberspace
John Harvard
John Harvard's name is so familiar that it may come as a surprise to learn how much of a man of mystery he is. Most graduates of the university...
The Law School and the Law
Rest assured, Harvard Law School is still teaching the law by the Socratic method--even over the Internet. "I've just started this privacy...
Thomas Forrest Kelly teaches about “First NIghts”—musical premieres
A look at Thomas Forrest Kelly’s Harvard Core course on five musical premieres