January-February 2000

WOMANLESS HISTORY As a recipient of a generation’s worth of alumni mailings, I’ve known in an intuitive way that Harvard as an institution has a…

Lush notes from your violin resound through gilt-edged halls. Hushed audiences listen as you enthrall them with Beethoven or Prokofiev. Hundreds…

It was yet another funeral for yet another young man killed in yet another drive-by shooting. But this time the violence didn’t wait while…

In November, 1997, a curious report emerged from physicists at the California Institute of Technology, who claimed that certain subatomic…

Every year, French wholesalers airlift cases of Beaujolais Nouveau worldwide so that wine shops can start selling bottles to the public on the…

Heaven’s Door is George J. Borjas’s second major work on the economic consequences of the great wave of immigration into the United States of…

Linnaeus: Nature and Nation, by Lisbet Koerner, Ph.D. ’93, associate of the department of the history of science (Harvard University Press…

Fairfield Porter ’28 was a realist painter in the midst of the abstract expressionist movement. He had an emotionally complex life. Although he…

James McCourt seeks a source for "The problem with the ‘melting pot’ theory is that those on the bottom get burned and the scum rises to…

In the liner notes to the John Adams Earbox, 10 compact discs of works, primarily orchestral, by John Adams ’69, A.M. ’72, the composer recounts…

On November 29, 1998, with the papal bull Incarnationis Mysterium, Pope John Paul II officially declared the Great Jubilee of the year 2000…

Forget the stereotypes of new technology being only for younger people. Seniors in growing numbers are exercising their mental muscles by…

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Every age has its potential regulator, its threat to liberty. Our founders feared a newly empowered federal government; the Constitution is…

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…

Rest assured, Harvard Law School is still teaching the law by the Socratic method—even over the Internet. "I’ve just started this privacy…

Students at Harvard Law School have always complained about their splendid misery, citing the cutthroat competition, overcrowded classes, and…

Cat-calls and hisses succeeded the playing of the first few bars, and then ensued a battery of screams, countered by a foil of applause. We…

Can our cities be made livable for all kinds of citizens, or are they condemned to be office ghettoes and entertainment zones used by suburban…

The surveillance area of Harvard’s network operations center (NOC) bears a fleeting resemblance to the helm of a starship. The large screen at…

Five professors and the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) are jointly pursuing creative approaches to a persistent problem: the…

Value of Endowment, Average Salaries, and other statistics; 1990 and 2000.

Deepening its involvement in Boston and Cambridge, Harvard has pledged financial support for affordable housing in the two cities. At a news…

Harvey v. Fineberg ’67, M.D. ’71, M.P.P. ’72, Ph.D. ’80, who had served as dean of the School of Public Health since 1984, was appointed…

As an undergraduate working for the New York University cinema studies department, Bruce Jenkins operated a technological device that has…

How is it that a famous liberal-arts center like Harvard, home to what is arguably the world’s first computer, could also be called the…

"How many of you agree with the statement, ‘Health is priceless’?" A robust show of hands. "How many of you went jogging this…

Documentary accounts of the historic past seldom capture the flavor of daily life hundreds of years ago. But broken pipestems, clay marbles, and…

"It was a very simple year." So Elizabeth C. Huidekoper, vice president for finance, characterizes Harvard’s getting and spending for…

In what must have been Harvard’s highest-level continuing-education course on higher education, presidents of seven universities in the People’s…

Thousands of bicycles. Ubiquitous laundry lines. Hard beds and squat toilets. Metal meal tins. White bureaucratic slips of paper with red…

In the antediluvian days before e-mail, the Harvard Crimson’s notice column published an alphabetical list announcing student events. Space…

Animal-Rights Threats Opposition to the use of animals in biomedical research (the subject of this magazine’s January-February 1999 cover story)…

There are some ways in which Harvard College, for all its history and prestige, is a normal college with normal students. The undergraduates are…

The big hit of the New York theater season in 1894 was William Gillette’s Too Much Johnson. It was a farce, but when it was revived at Yale Bowl…

The tallest group of women ever to play basketball for Harvard is now on the court. They’re not just high, but mighty: "This is potentially…

Women’s Soccer Undefeated in the ivies, the Crimson side (14-2-1 overall, 6-0-0 Ivy) won their fourth league title in five years…

For a few months recently, the National Enquirer added a two-word prefix to its name on the cover: it was "The New National Enquirer.&quot…

This year’s Harvard Alumni Association Award winners were publicly recognized on October 28, at the fall meeting of HAA directors. The following…

In October, the author known by the ultracapitalistic pseudonym "Adam Smith"—in reality, George "Jerry" W. Goodman ’52—sat…

A marshall scholarship diverted Frances Brodsky ’76 from enrolling in M.D.-Ph.D. programs after graduation. While earning a doctorate in…

1920 The physical examination of all 700 Harvard freshmen, in connection with a new system of compulsory freshman athletics, has been completed…

IN 1913 Loomis Temple of Music of New Haven published sheet music for a Yale fight song called "Good Night Harvard." "Good-Night…

HARVARD HAS about 125 notable old clocks. Fifty came in 1943 from Grenville L. Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. ’89 (who gave to the Fogg Art Museum…