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When it comes to the Ivy League, the competitive atmosphere among the best and the brightest – from the intellectual to the athletic – can be thick at times. Rarely does an opportunity arise in which Ivy League students can cooperate toward a common goal. Yet this spring, more than 3,500 Ivy students will do…

There are some areas where, believe it or not, Harvard is not No. 1.

A memorial service for the Right Reverend and Right Honorable Lord Robert Runcie of Cuddesdon will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 21, in the Memorial Church. The service is open to the public. It will be the only such service offered in the United States in memory of the late archbishop. Lord…

The 2001 Francis Greenwood Peabody Lecture will be given by Reynolds Price, James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University, at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 21, in the Memorial Church. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The exposure of bar and restaurant staff to tobacco smoke from patrons can be as high as the exposure of active smokers, according to a study in the March 9 issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal. Wael Al-Delaimy, the studys principal author, is currently a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health…

Volunteer opportunities in Boston schools

It probably wont, but it can happen here.

While University administrators met with leaders of Harvards largest union, HUCTW, to work out terms of a new contract due to go to union members for a ratification vote on May 1, another set of negotiations produced revisions to the job classification grid for HUCTW members. The new contract, if ratified, will not go into…

Harvard Magazine names Cohen and Levenson fellows Arianne Cohen and Eugenia (Jane) V. Levenson have been named Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2001-02 academic year, when both will be juniors in the College. Cohen, who lives in Leverett House and comes from Delmar, N.Y., is an editor and editorial writer for…

Engaging in electoral politics is an exciting and rewarding way to try to heal the ills of the world, but its not the only way – that was the consensus of a distinguished forum Monday, April 9, at the Kennedy Schools Institute of Politics.

The Radcliffe Culinary Friends presents its spring culinary event, The Life Around Food, on Thursday, May 3, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Meridian Hotel, 250 Franklin St., Boston.

Good morning, folks. Cmon right in. How ya doing, Marie! Jodi, hows that thesis coming? Wheres Ethel today? Step right up, ladies. How are you, sir? What a glorious day!

To some, a foreign language is exotic. To others, its strange and unwelcome.

Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced the establishment of a University Center for the Environment. The new center will draw on the strengths of and serve all of Harvards faculties and will support the development of multidisciplinary approaches to the solution of complex environmental problems. It is our hope that this center will become the…

The following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 7. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. April 2: At the Loeb Drama Center, a caller reported that his wallet and watch were taken from his coat. A motor vehicle was…

Enrique Anderson Imbert, the Victor Thomas Professor of Latin American Literature at Harvard University from 1965 until his retirement in 1980, died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 6, 2000. He was 90. A distinguished Argentine author and scholar, Anderson Imbert was a member of the Argentine Academy of Letters and the American Academy of Arts…

April 17, 1893 – The first Blaschka glass flowers are formally presented to the Botanical Museum as a memorial to Dr. Charles Eliot Ware, Class of 1834, by his widow Elizabeth C. Ware and daughter Mary L. Ware. The two women had taken an early interest in the developing project and given it generous financial…

Morning Exercises, Thursday, June 7 To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree candidates will receive a limited number of tickets to Commencement. Parents and guests of degree candidates must have tickets, which they will…

Keep those cards and letters coming.

If you train a monkey to look in a mirror, then put a dab of odorless red dye on its eyebrow, the monkey will try to rub the dye off the mirror. If you do the same with a chimpanzee, this more advanced ape will wipe its own eyebrow.

After last months 3-1 loss against Ivy rival Dartmouth in the ECAC Championship game, and a 6-3 upset in the first ever NCAA Womens Championship Semifinal in Minneapolis versus the eventual national champion Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs, this seasons brilliant Crimson squad found its post-season solace wherever it could, and not surprisingly, in a number of ways.

There were cockroaches perched on little kids fingers, cockroaches cupped in kids hands, cockroaches crawling on the table – and 9-year-old faces screwed up in an odd mixture of excitement, disgust, and delight.

Eleven Harvard University students and graduates are among the 30 recipients for the 2001 Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellowship. Fellows receive up to a $20,000 stipend plus half tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the U.S.

Each year, the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology receives a number of corporate fellowships instrumental in the training of graduate students in organic chemistry. The 2000-01 research fellowships are sponsored by Eli Lilly Research Laboratories, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., and Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research. Ten graduate students have been awarded the fellowships this year.

Veritas Forum returns to Harvard After a two-year hiatus, the Veritas Forum returned to Harvard yesterday (Wednesday, April 4), and will run through Monday, April 9. Through lectures, panels, and workshops, the forum serves as an interdisciplinary exploration of the Christian faith. This year’s forum will feature such notable guests as Java innovator Guy Steele,…