John Harvard's Journal
At Harvard’s Beck-Warren House, Ghosts Speak Many Languages
The quirky 1833 home now hosts Celtic scholars.
"Crossing Boundaries"
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust, founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will become Harvard’s twenty-eighth president on...
Scholars Galore
What a difference a year makes! In 2005, Harvard affiliates earned one Marshall Scholarship and two Rhodes Scholarships. In 2006, those numbers...
New Museum on Fast Track
Harvard planners announced in December that a new, permanent art museum would rise at 224 Western Avenue, a prime site in the University’s...
Last and Best
In sports, as in life, a momentary twist of fate can change everything that follows. So it is with wrestler Olabode “Bode&rdquo...
Toward Top-Tier Teaching
A task force on teaching proposed in late January that members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) enter into a “compact” to...
The Presidency, Pending
Feverish speculation notwithstanding, the Corporation did not use its regularly scheduled meeting with the Board of Overseers during the first...
N. Gregory Mankiw
Photograph by Stu Rosner N. Gregory Mankiw After two years as chair of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), Beren...
For Science and Engineering, New Life
In January, the Harvard Corporation authorized the establishment of the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC), allocating...
Student Financial Assistance: FY 2005
Financial support for degree-candidate students amounts to a half-billion-dollar-plus commitment by the University. These data, from fiscal year...
Imagine That!
A woman repairing an automobileand showing us the tops of her stockings! This is not a “True Woman,” domestic, docile...