John Harvard's Journal
At Harvard’s Beck-Warren House, Ghosts Speak Many Languages
The quirky 1833 home now hosts Celtic scholars.
A Scientific Windfall for the University?
A prestigious research institute in east Cambridge, and its 110,000-square-foot facility overlooking the Charles River, may soon be merged into...
Surplus Surge
The black ink continues. For the fiscal year ended June 20, 2001, the University recorded an operating surplus of $164.9 million--37 percent...
Nathan Marsh Pusey
In his habits of character and his presidential style, Nathan Pusey '28, Ph.D '37, LL.D '72, was a figure of transition. The last of a breed in...
Spirit of Giving
The University Campaign, concluded at the end of 1999, essentially doubled giving to Harvard, to $400 million or more annually. But remarkably...
Airing Out the Living Wage
The occupation of Massachusetts Hall last spring by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM)--proponents of a minimum "living wage" of...
Kaats and Bear Arrive
Railroad tycoon Edward Harriman financed a scientific expedition to the coast of Alaska in 1899 and went along on it with his family. When the...
Reshaping the Science Center
A treasure buried in the basement of the Science Center for years, the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments will at last be...
Brevia
Past and Present Presidents William Jefferson Clinton spoke to an overflow crowd in the Gordon Track and Tennis Center on November 19...
Language Lessons
Former Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow Elizabeth Gudrais '01 returned from a fellowship in Latvia in December and is now...
Widener Library: Youthful at the Core
The rejuvenation of Widener Library progresses. The Phillips Reading Room opened for use in October, a major new something-to-see. It is one of...