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  • Stick to your promise and get your flu shot

    University Health Services (UHS) will be providing free flu vaccines to members of the Harvard community beginning in November. The walk-in clinics are being held at the following locations:

  • Franklin Ford memorial service set for Nov. 20

    A memorial service for Franklin Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Emeritus, will be held Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. at the Memorial Church.

  • Bottom’s up

    A glass paperweight in a stationery store reflects a topsy-turvy pedestrian as he walks along Massachusetts Avenue.

  • This month in Harvard history

    November 1942 – A Harvard Alumni Association advertisement for the well-known Harvard chair (black with gold trim and mahogany-colored arms; weight: 28 pounds; advertised price: $13.50) yields the following historical…

  • Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Nov. 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

  • President Summers opens office to students, staff Dec. 1

    President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

  • Local shelter works to stop abuse before it starts

    When Elsbeth Kalenderian, executive director of the Cambridge-based nonprofit Transition House, heard Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers speak about Harvards recent donation of a microscopy unit to Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, she sprung into action. Theres a link, she told him, between academic achievement and the dating violence her organization was fighting to prevent.

  • Research on ESL children has surprising results

    For an increasing number of children whose first language is not English, learning to read – arguably one of schools most important and most difficult lessons – can be an especially high hurdle.

  • Bending notes

    Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music and Harvard College Professor Thomas Kelly strolls to work and is caught in the reflection of a car window.

  • The Big Picture

    When Veronica Fullard performed at her first Renaissance festival, she hid behind a camera snapping publicity photos (in character, of course, with an innovative back story to explain her portrait-taking device) to minimize her interaction with patrons. I used to be the most horribly shy person I knew, says Fullard, who is a staff assistant in the Department of Philosophy. Five years ago, if you had asked me, I never would have guessed that I would be so immersed in this.

  • Yale snubs v-ball, 3-1

    A school-record 35 digs by co-captain Allison Bendush 04 wasnt enough to lift the Harvard womens volleyball team past visiting Yale on Saturday (Nov. 8), as the Crimson dropped its final home match of the season, 3-1. The loss, which fell on the heels of Harvards 3-0 sweep of Brown on Nov. 7, ends a five-game win streak for the Crimson. With the loss, Harvard falls to 8-14 (7-5 league) for a fourth-place spot in the Ivy rankings.

  • In brief

    New Nieman wing to honor Knight Foundation The newly added wing to the Walter Lippmann House – home of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard – will be named in honor…

  • Energy-saving programs ask Harvard to go ‘cold turkey’

    The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvards Longwood campus are squaring off in an energy-saving duel that asks faculty, staff, and graduate students to Go Cold Turkey over Thanksgiving weekend.

  • Recycling can be greatly improved

    Drink up, Harvard.

  • Zwick ’74 premieres ‘Samurai in Cambridge

    For filmmaker Ed Zwick 74, the premiere of his forthcoming film The Last Samurai at the Harvard Square Theater Sunday night (Nov. 9) completed a circle he began more than 30 years ago.

  • Dawkins to deliver Tanner Lectures

    Speaking by phone from his office at Oxford University, biologist Richard Dawkins politely declined to talk in detail about his upcoming lecture series at Harvard, The Science of Religion and the Religion of Science.

  • Economist details North Korean plight

    North Koreas long-running food shortage is a crisis of the nations own making that is hitting nonelite city residents hard and, without a leadership change, shows no sign of stopping.

  • Obituary: William Wayne Montgomery

    The professions of medicine, otolaryngology, and head and neck surgery have lost a giant in the passing of William Wayne Montgomery, said Joseph B. Nadol Jr., Walter Augustus Lecompte Professor of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School (HMS).

  • Newsmakers

    MHS honors Chandler with Kennedy Medal Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the Isidor Strauss Professor of Business History Emeritus at Harvard Business School, has received the John F. Kennedy Medal from…

  • Harvard University Mail Services delivers

    A quarter of the mail delivered to Cambridges 02138 ZIP code is Harvard-bound. And of that, 77 percent goes through Harvard University Mail Services (HUMS), where a relatively lean operation of staff and students shepherds it to its final destinations.

  • Jerusalem during the reign of King Hezekiah

    Youve read The Book. Now see the exhibition.

  • Memorial Minute: David Riesman, author of ‘The Lonely Crowd’

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 21, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

  • Is your heart in the right place?

    Whether your heart winds up in the right place may be determined as early as the first hour of your life in the womb.

  • A role for clay in formation of the first cells

    Harvard researchers demonstrated how the first living cells may have formed in a series of experiments that indicate that clay can be an important catalyst for life.

  • Twilight zone twilight

    Whether the result of a solar flare, the nearness of Halloween, or the lustrous alchemy of cloud, setting sun, and October light, the coming of dusk on Oct. 29 turned Harvard Square into a luminous spectacle.

  • 4/15/47: Robinson’s day

    Gerald L. Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters at Washington University in St. Louis, delivers the first of The Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures inside the Barker Center. In this talk, Early concentrated on Jackie Robinson, a staunch civil rights activist, successful businessman, and the first African American to play in major league baseball. Early, who discussed other athletes, is a sought-after contributor to mainstream and scholarly publications such as The New York Times, Harpers, The Nation, The Washington Post, and Newsweek.

  • This month in Harvard history

    Nov. 2, 1657 – By request of the Board of Overseers, the Great and General Court approves an Appendix to the Charter of 1650 clarifying the division of power between…

  • Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Nov. 1. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

  • Mark your calendar for meeting with president

    President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

  • Community Gifts campaign kicks off giving season

    Whether the impending holidays bring joyful anticipation or stressed-out dread, Harvard employees can get a jump-start on the giving season with the Universitys 2003-04 Community Gifts Through Harvard Campaign, which launched this week and runs through November. The campaign, with a goal this year of $1 million, provides a low-stress, high-impact vehicle for improving the lives of people around the corner or across the globe.