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ART MUSEUMS IN A NEW WORLD As aformer student in Harvard's fine arts department and now a professorof art history, I eagerly read Janet...

November-December 2002

Features

An American Empire?

Only a year and a week separated the events of September 11, 2001, when Americans felt so vulnerable, from a presidential declaration in which...

Anne Hutchinson

On June 2, 1922, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts received from the Anne Hutchinson Memorial Association and the State Federation of Women's...

The Great Global Experiment

During a recent Alaska study cruise cosponsored by the Harvard Museum of Natural History, James J. McCarthy stopped at several islands with...

by Jonathan Shaw

Castling in the Square

The Harvard Chess Club battles the clock and the competition by Paul Hoffman On the last Sunday in October, last year, four members of the...

On the Road with Death

In a world where buses are "flying coffins" and "moving morgues" and pedestrians should tremble, pulblic-health experts take on a neglected...

by Christopher Reed

RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas

The Ultimate Blasts from the Past

In the 1960s, the United States secretly launched several satellites to check for illegal nuclear-weapons testing in space. Equipped with...

Balkanizing the Web?

Originally, the World Wide Web was envisioned as exactly that—a global vehicle for the unimpeded flow of information, without barriers...

Chiseled Farewells

In Rome's placid Protestant Cemetery, the remains of poet John Keats rest in a nameless grave that bears an epitaph he wrote himself: "Here...

John Harvard's Journal University news

Hushed Voices

Sacred and secular, the University's observance of September 11 proved both a moving memorial to the thousands who lost their lives to...

Raised Voices

Six days after helping to bring the community together at Harvard's observance of September 11 (see preceding page), President Lawrence H...

Steady State

Diversification pays. So do effective investment disciplines. Those are the two signal lessons from recent Harvard Management Company (HMC)...

Watertown-Gown

Harvard has reached an agreement to pay $480 million over 52 years to neighboring Watertown, Massachusetts, where in May 2001 the University...

Curriculum Czar

Propelled by the cataclysm of World War II—and a half-dozen years of prior study of the undergraduate curriculum—a faculty committee...

Capitalism Campaign

Harvard Business School (HBS), established in 1908, on September 21 formally launched its first capital campaign. The timing might not seem...

Jonathan and Christine Seidman

As youngsters they were far apart—he spent much of his youth in Ghana, she grew up on Long Island—but they met at Harvard, married in...

Military Recruiters Get Official Welcome

For more than 20 years, military recruiters have been banned from working through the Law School's Office of Career Services because of the...

Veritas Values

Prompted by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies—the group formed in response to the "living wage...

A Slightly Grayer Faculty

The unique institution of tenure gave higher education a loophole when the 1970 Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) was amended in 1986...

Rethinking the Divinity School

"The university is very healthy as a whole. The immensely successful Rudenstine presidency has placed us in an excellent position to face...

A Cluster of (Scholarly) Stars

The Radcliffe Institute, spreading its wings as a center for advanced study affiliated with a major research university, is extending the reach...

Faculty Perk Sheet

A pdf of the Faculty Perk Sheet by Andy Borowitz '80 is available for download...

Messenger from Pakistan

Amid what administrators and police said was the heaviest security ever for a Harvard speaker, Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, told a...

University People

Robert D. Reischauer Harvard News Office Familiar Fellow Robert D. Reischauer '63 was appointed to the Harvard Corporation (The...

Elite Educators

When last seen, statistician Richard J. Light, Gale professor of education, had published his findings on what makes for an effective...

Three Maestros Talk Music

Conductors are known for their long lives—Toscanini, for example, lived to be 89. Three Harvard conductors—James Yannatos, Tom...

Brevia

  Freshman to Freshmen William C. Kirby Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Welcoming his first College entering class as dean of...

Crimson, White, and Blue

On a campus steeped in lore and history, perhaps no history is more visibly honored than that of Harvard's warriors. Since the earliest days of...

Taut and Suspenseful

In a shootout between the defending champions of the Ivy and Patriot Leagues, the football team fell to Lehigh, 36-35, in the final minute of...

Fall Sports

Field Hockey The stickwomen (5-1, 3-0 Ivy) got off to a fast start, knocking off Penn, Brown, and Yale in their first three Ivy contests...

Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond

Harvard Calendar

MUSIC. Memorial Church hosts the annual Christmas Carol Services on December 15 at 5 p.m. and December 16 at 8 p.m. For details, call...

Almuni Harvardians far and wide

Working on the Railroad

David L. Gunn '59, M.B.A. '64, has always been a railroader. Growing up in a Boston suburb, his family's vacations usually involved getting on...

Alumni News

 Aloian Winners Established in 1988 to honor the late David Aloian '49, a former executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association...

Yesterday's News

1922 Sports devotee R.S. Hale, A.B. 1891, suggests to the Bulletin that there be "two Harvard football teams," instead of one, noting that when...