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A memorial service for John Rawls, the James Bryant Conant University Professor Emeritus, will be held at Sanders Theatre on Feb. 27 at 3 p.m. A reception will follow in Loeb House, 17 Quincy St. Rawls died Nov. 24 at the age of 81.

President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Jan. 18. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Ca. January 1960 – Harvard announces plans to build a Center for the Study of World Religions near the Divinity School to replace a rented residence in Cambridge serving scholars…

At its eighth meeting of the year the Faculty Council reviewed with FAS Dean William C. Kirby a draft of his Annual Letter to the Faculty. The council also discussed with Associate Dean Jeffrey Wolcowitz (undergraduate education and economics) a proposed early course selection system. Finally, the council heard a report, from Wolcowitz, on the…

Reflected in one of the windows of Boylston Hall, Wigglesworth Hall appears to live up to its name.

Harvards 20/20/2000 program has helped generate about 1,700 units of affordable housing in its first three years, aiding in the creation of everything from homeless shelters to low-income rental housing to home ownership programs for middle-income residents.

In Woody Allens film, The Purple Rose of Cairo, a character from a 1930s movie walks off the screen and into the life of an audience member.

Archaeologist Ofer Bar-Yosef is an interpreter of ancient human history as told by barn owls, a sleuth in search of mankinds past, reading the ashes of campfires extinguished millennia ago and examining stone flakes for evidence of a human hand in their creation.

C. Douglas Dillon 31, LLD 59, the former U.S. treasury secretary and president of the Harvard Board of Overseers whose accomplishments spanned the realms of government, diplomacy, finance, economics, and art, died last Friday (Jan. 10) at age 93. Dillon had lengthy and distinguished careers in investment banking and public service, ultimately serving in the…

When Emily Famutimi 03 founded Keylatch Mentor for adolescents who had aged out of the South Ends Keylatch Afterschool Program that she directed, she took money from her own pocket, buying supplies as well as T tokens and movie tickets for the kids activities with their mentors.

Co-authors receive TIAA-CREF award The TIAA-CREF Institute, a research and education unit of TIAA-CREF, has announced that Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics John Y. Campbell and Assistant Professor of…

A team of astronomers led by Matthew Holman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and JJ Kavelaars (National Research Council of Canada) has discovered three previously unknown moons of Neptune. This finding boosts the number of known satellites of the gas giant to 11. These moons are the first to be discovered orbiting Neptune since the Voyager…

President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:

January may not be autumn, but its first two weeks envelop students in the fall reading period nonetheless. Its that almost-free-but-fretful time after the holiday break, when regular class sessions have ended but term papers are due and exams loom.

The Cambridge City Council unanimously approved an order last week to name a city square after the late Scott Sandberg – the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study building services coordinator who died in a November avalanche – in honor of his efforts to improve recycling.

Harvard set a recycling record in November, collecting 311 tons – the largest monthly volume ever and 34 percent of the Universitys total waste for that month, according to Rob Gogan, supervisor of recycling and waste management for Facilities Maintenance Operations.

The School of Public Healths Harvard Mentoring Project and MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership have launched their second annual National Mentoring Month (NMM) campaign – a public/private initiative aimed at recruiting mentors for kids who are at risk of not achieving their potential.

A new Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) internship is giving five undergraduate students a taste of life as computer programmers and developing new ways computers and the Internet can help teachers teach.

The arts and visual culture of colonial India will be on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum now through May 25. Visitors will see works ranging from paintings and fine luxury objects to documentary drawings and historical photographs that show India during the European colonization of South Asia in the 17th through early 20th…

The late Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was, in the opinion of admirers and detractors alike, the recluse/bookworm nonpareil. At the same time, he was (and is) regarded as a pop culture icon – one of Mick Jaggers heroes. Borges was an author, translator, avant-gardist, and expert in Medieval Anglo-Saxon literature. He was a…

Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have found that a lifetime history of depression may be significantly associated with an early decline in ovarian function. Women in their late 30s and early 40s experiencing depressive symptoms and currently on medication to treat their mood disorders appear to be at the greatest risk of starting…