May-June 2006

Harvard continues to be an acute embarrassment to me, but unfortunately not to itself. It will take my beloved College 20 years to overcome the…

One day, mental exercise may join physical exercise on Americans’ to-do lists and among their doctors’ recommendations. So says a…

War is messy, and putting a price tag on a war that stretches over years, with consequences lasting decades longer, is a staggering task. Yet in…

"Computer use does not cause carpal tunnel syndrome.” Moreover, “no one has proven that the disease is made worse by work on a…

In his new book, The Chosen, Jerome Karabel ’72, Ph.D. ’77, offers a provocative account of undergraduate admissions at Harvard…

Who the Hell Are We Fighting? The Story of Sam Adams and the Vietnam Intelligence Wars, by C. Michael Hiam (Steerforth Press, $25.95)…

New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell ’42, who has a long-running devotion to the game of baseball, has now produced an episodic…

Rick Stanford asks if anyone can provide the title and author of a poem that begins with the line, “Twenty inglorious Miltons looked at a…

Each year, Harvard College grants degrees to some 1,600 students, each of whom possesses gifts and abilities that count in the wider world. The…

On Commencement day they usher elderly alumni into the Tree Spread, point out empty seats to parents with their wooden batons, and beam…

Found in this magazine’s basement: a sheaf of pages listing Cambridge and Boston restaurants from a guide for students that evidently…

The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, which this year includes addresses by President Lawrence H. Summers and PBS news anchor…

Morning Exercises, Thursday, June 8, 2006 To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement…

Like a 370-year-old adolescent, Harvard is in the middle of a growth spurt. In fact, if the building boom under way in Cambridge and the…

Harvard, founded in 1636, has by law been formally governed by a Board of Overseers since 1642, and by the Corporation since 1650. The last…

D. Ronald Daniel: While the bylaws do not set any limits with respect to time or age, within the last 10 years the Corporation itself has more…

D. Ronald Daniel: There’s a very special governance issue at Harvard. That is the role of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences [FAS] in the…

Photographs by David Arnold and H. Bradford Washburn The breathtaking aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers shot by H. Bradford…

Our demand for energy, on which we depend for health and prosperity, rises all the time: oil and natural gas to heat our homes; electricity for…

Heinz professor of environmental policy John Holdren, who holds a joint appointment in the Faculty of Arts and Science’s department of…

Francis James Child, A.B. 1846, was a model of nineteenth-century academic achievement. Named Harvard’s Boylston professor of rhetoric and…

Adapted by the author from the Convocation Address she delivered to the Divinity School community on September 19, 2005, at the opening of the…

After five years of frequent controversy on matters of fundamental academic and intellectual substance, and the style in which those issues were…

The resignation of President Lawrence H. Summers became grist for a torrent of commentary worldwide, much of it highly political, even…

Derek Bok, Harvard’s president from 1971 to 1991, resumes those duties on July 1 on an interim basis until a permanent successor to…

The search for a successor to President Lawrence H. Summers will involve expanded outreach to the Harvard community. In a March 30 news release…

What can Harvard learn from the administration of Lawrence H. Summers—cut short of its expected duration, and short of achieving many of…

The first Harvard Business School (HBS) capital campaign, launched publicly in the fall of 2002, ended on December 31, having raised at least 20…

To make attending the College more affordable for lower- and middle-income families, Harvard has extended the financial-aid initiative it…

Kevin Eggan Photograph by Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Last year Kevin Eggan was a Junior Fellow at Harvard. He met developmental…

In the wake of last year’s upheaval over appointing women to professorships in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the challenges…

Commencement Speaker Jim Lehrer Courtesy of WSIU-TV Jim Lehrer, executive editor and anchor of PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer…

 1926 The annual picture-taking of freshmen and seniors in front of Widener breaks up when the former, ordered off the steps by the latter…

Noel Twagiramungu won’t speak about the assassination attempt—the event that drove him from Rwanda remains under investigation. Two…

The Supreme Court ruled on March 6 that the federal government can cut off funding to universities that limit or ban military recruiting on…

At the end of a year that has seen various plans for the College (including the curricular review) mark time or unravel, matters are quietly…

Harvard’s schools vary not only in their mission and in the composition of their faculties and student bodies, but also in financial…

Even as a first-year graduate student, I knew that Aldous Huxley’s novels would be my dissertation subject. Harvard didn’t share my…

Professorships Stimulus The University on February 16 announced a $50-million Professorship Challenge Fund. Donors of $3 million qualify for a…

“Is there no one in this House who plays basketball?” the e-mail reads. I feel a twinge of guilt. I signed up to play intramural…

It’s one of the least understood, and most difficult, events in a track and field meet. Yet the essence of the triple jump is simple: jump…

Frank Haggerty ’68, head coach of men’s and women’s cross-country and track and field since 1982 and assistant coach for seven…

Lacrosse The men’s team (4-2, 1-0 Ivy) took down Penn, 13-8, in their Ivy opener and captured a thrilling triple-overtime 8-7 win over…

The Harvard men’s and women’s fencing teams combined to win the NCAA national championship, the first in program history, in Houston…

Some days it went like this: Lil: We’re looking at a three-year-old. Things that people are doing for us. How do you feel about it? Elinor: I…

This spring, five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board will be chosen by alumni…

The University’s on-line learning initiative has released two new segments. One highlights the fall 2005 conference on women and war, the…

University clubs offer a variety of stimulating gatherings. Here is a list of Harv-ard-affiliated speakers appearing at local clubs this spring…

Krokodiloes old and new celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of Harvard’s oldest a cappella group with a concert on March 17. Below…

Father-son parallels aren’t rare, but Rick Wolff ’73 and John Wolff ’06 have followed the same course into professional…

"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Has Harvard staked out another new campus? On February 2…

The legend on the engraving Gellt Zeucht die Weltt, below, sums up the message of the exhibition Coin and Conscience: Popular Views of Money…