March-April 2000

As the panelists in your roundtable discussion “Cities and Suburbs” cogently convey (January-February, page 54), more than a few suburbs now…

Calvin Trillin has attributed an astute observation to his father, who said something like, “You can’t gain more weight than that of the food…

In the summer of 1980, while doing primate research at a tourist spot in Florida, Marc D. Hauser had an unusual encounter. A female spider…

Of all the seed-bearing plants on earth, the angiosperms, or flowering plants, have been the most successful. There are 250,000 of them, as…

The University Campaign is one for the record books: by far exceeding its $2.1-billion goal, it became the most successful such effort ever…

The morning after Beowulf wrenches off Grendel’s arm—thus purging the Danish royal hall of its unwelcome visitor—King…

    Buy America John D. Spooner ’59, author of Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around? (Adams Media…

    On the Rez, by Ian Frazier ’73 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25). “This book is about Indians, particularly the Oglala…

Janice Weiss asks where Benjamin DeMott may have written that literature is “an elegant clockworks that tells no time.” &nbsp…

SPECIAL. Dance yourself over to the annual CityStep show, featuring Cambridge fifth- and sixth-graders, on April 14 and 15 in Sanders Theatre…

The more things change, the more they stay the same. That’s the refrain visitors to Harvard Square may be humming this spring as they cruise its…

FILM. This April, African cinema will take center stage at the Harvard Film Archive, beginning with African Film Festival 2000 (on April…

The full-page advertisement in the Harvard Crimson a year ago came as no surprise. The text was straightforward: Intelligent, Athletic Egg…

A warm, breezy day in July, and beneficent providence has set for me a sumptuous lunch overlooking God’s own landscape near Tanglewood, on the…

I am quite sure that I never intended to travel the road of the mystery writer,” wrote Earl Derr Biggers ’07 for his twenty-fifth class reunion…

The bombshell dropped in 1976, when “The Natural History of Chipping” appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry. In their article, Norman…

The Poet of Needle Park: He is surely the most famous Harvard-educated heroin addict, and one of the most famous addicts anywhere: William…

The ascent of Harvard’s wrestling program, as some colleges scrap theirs to reach gender equity in their sports offerings, owes much to the…

Seeking to make the most of new scientific opportunities in an era of rising research costs and shifting income sources, Harvard Medical School…

Harvard’s university campaign, the most ambitious such effort ever in higher education, concluded December 31, five and a half years from its…

Samuel Gompers, a founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor, succinctly summarized its aims as “More!” It is unlikely…

In an effort to provide Harvard students with better mental-health care—a more accessible and tightly coordinated network of services—a…

Piet Mondrian’s Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow, and Red is now part of the University’s art collections, thanks to a gift from the family…

Having identified financial and other pressures on untenured professors, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Jeremy R. Knowles…

Harvard Business School has prohibited faculty members from having a “financial interest” or “formal position” in enterprises launched, run, or…

Harvard Management Company’s president, Jack R. Meyer, and its five best-performing portfolio managers earned compensation totaling $41.1…

Philosopher Richard Heck earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Duke, studied philosophy at Oxford, and got his Ph.D. at MIT in 1991…

For many years, Harvard has moved gradually but consistently toward globalizing its mission and outreach, with new international programs in the…

The bronze Large Four Piece Reclining Figure by Henry Moore that has reclined on the grass in front of Lamont Library for almost 20 years is now…

Doctor in the House Harvey V. Fineberg, Harvard’s provost, began a medical leave and underwent surgery December 16 for what was described…

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…

How to help academically distinguished, but economically and socially disadvantaged, high-school students succeed in college and later in life?…

Whether a new millennium and century have arrived or not—let it pass—Dean Jeremy R. Knowles made the last Faculty of Arts and Sciences…

Quitting Kirkland House Continuing a generational change among leaders of the undergraduate Houses, Kirkland master Donald H. Pfister and…

As is its custom, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting of December 14, 1999, began with memorial minutes commemorating deceased colleagues…

What surprises me most about senior year is how much it resembles freshman year—especially in the chronic questions that haunt conversations…

Last year, the second most impressive thing about Joey Killar’s season was how much of the time he spent not wrestling. Competing at 165…

Women’s Hockey At midseason, the defending national champion Crimson stickwomen (13-2-2, 11-2-2 ECAC) retained their number-one ranking…

And now for something completely different. Those readers who turned to this space in the previous issue found, under the headline Sensational…

Get in shape for the national elections by doing your duty as a Harvard citizen first. Ballots listing candidates for Overseer and for elected…

“Return to Harvard Day,” on Wednesday, April 19, offers alumni of all College classes, and this year’s reunion classes, their spouses, and…

Few people find a mission while cleaning house, but that is what happened to Saul Touster ’46, J.D. ’48. One day in 1996, as he was…

Jeanne Heifetz ’81 didn’t become involved with weaving until she was 14, but remembers always being attracted to traditional…

1920 Thanks to the Endowment Fund campaign, President Lowell approves a new salary scale for faculty members under which full professors will…

When daylight-saving time returns on April 2, not a moment too soon, Harvardians emerging into the sunlight may wish to visit the restored…