John Harvard's Journal
      
			Harvard news and notes, spring 2000
The University Brevia PH.D. MAGIC: Illustration by Rick Stromoski Each Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Bulletin features "BackTalk," a...
Sharing the Wealth
For the second year in a row, the President and Fellows of Harvard College have authorized a larger-than-usual increase in the distribution from...
Quest for the Best
How to help academically distinguished, but economically and socially disadvantaged, high-school students succeed in college and later in life?...
Crimson Wrestlers Rising
The ascent of Harvard's wrestling program, as some colleges scrap theirs to reach gender equity in their sports offerings, owes much to the...
The Faculty Weighs In, circa 1899
Whether a new millennium and century have arrived or notlet it passDean Jeremy R. Knowles made the last Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
The New Medicine
Seeking to make the most of new scientific opportunities in an era of rising research costs and shifting income sources, Harvard Medical School...
Brevia
Quitting Kirkland House Continuing a generational change among leaders of the undergraduate Houses, Kirkland master Donald H. Pfister and...
The Finish Line
Harvard's university campaign, the most ambitious such effort ever in higher education, concluded December 31, five and a half years from its...
Memorial minute for Laurence Wylie, scholar of French civilization
As is its custom, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting of December 14, 1999, began with memorial minutes commemorating deceased colleagues...
Expanding the Professoriate
Samuel Gompers, a founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor, succinctly summarized its aims as "More!" It is unlikely...
 
			