May-June 2000

The eugenic temptation, raising boys, Beowulf, F.O. Matthiessen

Rust never sleeps. Neither do its chemical cousins, the so-called “reactive oxygen species” whose oxidizing properties in the human body can…

Mount Athos, jutting up from the Aegean Sea in northeastern Greece, is a place of austere traditions. Twenty Greek Orthodox monasteries cling…

Women as priests in early Christianity

Frosty times on the Sandburg range

The View from Nebo: How Archaeology Is Rewriting the Bible and Reshaping the Middle East, by Amy Dockser Marcus ’87 (Little, Brown, $25.95)…

Lester Welch hopes to find a source for “You Care—I Dare,” a didactic passage that ends, “If you love me, don’t sing me your song. Teach me to…

“Why can’t one speak truth sometimes, and call C.E.N. publicly and without apology the infernal old sinner and sham that he is,” wrote William…

In its September-October 1996 issue, Harvard Magazine published “The Millenial Class,” a selection of admissions essays submitted by six…

"Yes!” I shouted, punching the air as I hung up the phone. I jumped off the bed where I had been keeping vigil all morning and ran down the…

The commencement festivities conclude with addresses by President Neil L. Rudenstine, Amartya K. Sen and Seamus Heaney. Top MONDAY, JUNE 5…

The entrance strategy was simple. On Saturday afternoon, December 1, 1973, a visitor to the Fogg Art Museum, a man in his twenties, left a brown…

“Incredible as it seems to the uninitiated, there was no overall inventory of the University coins,” wrote Professor George M.A. Hanfmann in…

In the era of the robbery, night watchmen at the Fogg and the campus police routinely communicated with one another at intervals, but the…

Why is it that so many doctors feel compelled to write, and that so many do, so compellingly? William Carlos Williams, Ethan Canin, M.D. ’89…

Looking at the relationship between doctor and patient, and the way healthcare is delivered in our country.

When Alex M. Rampell ’03 started investigating college options, the young inventor’s computer program—which sells for $15 and combats…

For Radcliffe: A “Founding Dean” Looking ahead: new Radcliffe dean Drew Gilpin Faust, acting dean Mary Maples Dunn, and President Neil L…

The President and Fellows of Harvard College, as the executive governing board of the University is officially titled, has returned to full…

When she was an eight-year-old living on Long Island, Alyssa Goodman, Ph.D. ’89, wrote to two oceanic research centers, Scripps and Woods Hole. “I wanted to be Jacques Cousteau,” …

Two Buildings, Many Obstacles Permit hurdles remained as this magazine went to press, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) long-delayed…

Reflecting on 35 Years of the NEA Diva Jessye Norman, D.Mus. ’88, sang to honor the thirty-fifth anniversary of the National Endowment for the…

The College’s Course of Study Harvard undergraduates’ course work has become steadily more demanding, requiring “much more alertness and…

World’s Greatest University Takes Heat Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, the largest health plan in Massachusetts, having experienced huge losses…

The University Brevia PH.D. MAGIC: Illustration by Rick Stromoski Each Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Bulletin features “BackTalk,” a…

One day last autumn, the clock in the tower of Adolphus Busch Hall stopped. Grime, exhausted bushings, and a pinion worn halfway through. In…

The care and nurturing of the 3,100 students and 2,200 scholars who come from abroad to study, teach, or hold fellowships at Harvard annually…

Just Plain Silliness Inspired silliness is the goal—but where inspiration temporarily falters, then by all means let’s have aimless…

I have to ask. I’ve seen it every day for three years now. Take your pick of location: the main doors of Sever and Emerson ….

“She was pretty much the topic of anyone and everyone’s conversation …”

In March, Dora Gyorffy ’01 became NCAA national indoor high jump champion …

Beren Tennis Center… Jordan Field…

From its very first day, the Harvard College class of 1950 has been remarkable. Its ranks swollen by the tide of returning veterans, the 2,000…

Beyond its reunion symposiums, the class of 1950 has elicited reviews of the state of knowledge …

What alchemy makes images on paper move? The secret, Jerome Rubin explains, in in the ink …

In Honored Company … Pride of Place … Comings and Goings … Vote and Be Heard …

1915 A group of 800 Harvard-educated farmers claim the right to call their organization the “Harvard Farmers Association.” A letter to the…

On the fourth day of a celebration of Harvard’s two hundred and fiftieth birthday, on November 5 through 8, 1886, Professor James Russell…