March-April 2001

A memoir of the writing life in country and city, and Mark Twain encounters the Aga Khan

Crossing over: Where Art and Science Meet…

Just short of 60 and deeply in debt because of his failed publishing firm, Samuel Clemens set out…

The incongruous pleasure of No. 9 Park lies in its homey elegance.

The Business School’s new take on teaching management

Despite a perception that it is primarily a boot-camp for corporate careers …

George E. Vaillant’s generational research on Harvard men unveils the differences that distinguish the “happy-well” from the “sad-sick” in later life

In a way, the man who has headed the Grant Study for more than 30 years ….

Can marine molecular genetics help form a strategy for restocking the damaged seas? A dispatch from Bali

Hunting quintessential quotations with the editor of Barlett’s

Virtual reality in the classroom

Quality of life and academic matters receive equal billing in a four-part program for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences…

Harvard has floated the idea that it build an important new museum of natural and cultural history on some yet-to-be-determined site in Allston at some time in the not-too-distant future…

Kathy Spiegelman, once an assistant city manager for Cambridge, has since 1995 been director of Harvard Planning and Real Estate…

Years ago Gerald Lesser, now Bigelow professor of education and developmental psychology emeritus at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), was a key player in the development of the children’s television show Sesame Street.

Calling for a new library for the sciences and for initiatives by the Harvard College Library…

Much about the College’s appearance — undergraduate enrollment, the residential Houses — remains constant. But a sense of underlying…

How often does the admissions staff of an elite university advise prospective applicants that they “are not judged simply by the number of AP or other advanced credits amassed at the end of senior year”…

More than 660 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch landscape prints have been added to the Harvard University Art Museums collection…

I don’t have many regrets about my undergraduate years at Harvard — but I do wish I’d taken a semester abroad…

Geoffrey A. Fowler ’00, who served as one of this magazine’s Ledecky undergraduate Fellows, has been spending the current academic year in England…

The orange ball, clicking in its relentless, stuttering rhythm, is bigger now…

On a rainy September morning in 1999, hundreds of Native Americans gathered on the mall near the U.S. Capitol …

Some say English prisoners invented the game of squash, rapping a ball off the walls of their jail cells…

Museum masterpieces