John Harvard's Journal
The Anti-thesis
I've always had difficulty with conclusions. Writing a 101-page senior thesis may have only made my problem worse. I should have heeded the...
349th: A Lovefest
Rain never falls on a Harvard Commencement, but it descended in Biblical volume on the Phi Beta Kappa and baccalaureate processions two days...
Freewheeling at 50 M.P.H.
Swooping left, then right, now cruising straight ahead at the speed of a fresh gale, then suddenly diving into a hollow and rising up together...
Honoris Causa
Honorary degrees
A Sportive Spring
Spring sports roundup
Commencement Confetti
Student linen-crew workers made up the dorm beds that would welcome reunioners. Some beds were then changed as alumni departed and new ones...
Cat, Frog, Worm...
The principal speakers during Commencement week 2000 said much about the value of reasoned inquiry, the importance of universities as a home for...
Rudenstine Will Step Down
Neil L. Rudenstine, whose service as Harvard's twenty-sixth president began July 1, 1991, announced on May 22 that he would step down at the end...
Distance Learning @Harvard.edu
New technologies, changing demographics, and the emergence of richly funded, Internet-based e-learning ventures may lead to serious upheavals...
The Adaptive Law of the Land
In an exaltation of deans, the acting dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the institute's dean-elect welcomed dean of...