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  • The whys and woes of beauty pageants

    They wore the latest colors of lipstick and matching eyeliner. Some had fake hair and even fake teeth. They pranced on stage in sequined gowns and rhinestone-studded jeans. Occasionally there…

  • Tintinnabulation will reign over Cambridge

    June 08, 2000 In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university – and of our earlier history when bells of varying tones summoned us from…

  • Graduates cross bridge to learning

    Thirty-eight Harvard Faculty Club workers graduated from the University’s first “Bridge” program at ceremonies at the Faculty Club on June 4. The pilot program, which provides basic literacy and language…

  • Law professor Clark Byse honored for 60 years of service

    Harvard Law School Byrne Professor of Administrative Law Emeritus Clark Byse will receive the Harvard Law School Association (HLSA) Award in honor of his 60-year teaching career. Law School Dean…

  • Harvard Employment Office hosting Career Forum on June 13

    Harvard’s Employment Office, in consultation with a University-wide organizing committee, is hosting Career Forum 2000 on Tuesday, June 13. This year’s event will be held from noon to 7 p.m.…

  • Class Day speakers touch all with spirit, humor

    Like the enthusiastic reviewer of the proverbial blockbuster novel, audience members of Wednesday’s Senior Class Day program might have come away exclaiming, “I laughed, I cried.” From Jason Stevenson’s exhortation…

  • Late Night humor on Class Day

    It was almost as if someone dropped laughing gas on Harvard Yard. Following a series of emotional and inspiring student speakers on Class Day, Conan O’Brien ’85, a two-time president…

  • Printers get ready by degrees

    It is 11 on a balmy spring night. Kathy Pendrak and Brenda Waldron, prepress operators at Harvard Printing and Publications Services (HPPS), sit at computer terminals massaging mountains of data.…

  • Divinity School presents three with annual awards

    Harvard Divinity School has announced three recipients of the awards that are presented each June on its Alumni/ae Day. This year, on June 7, the First Decade Award was given…

  • Harvard Senior Sounds Out Future With Rare Combined Degree

    A certain chord will strike a certain reaction in certain people. The dynamic underlying that reaction is something Aaron Einbond may spend the rest of his life pursuing. The Crestwood,…

  • Profile in courage (and loyalty)

    It is indicative of Brooke Ellison’s perspective on life that when she talks about the worst thing that ever happened to her, she emphasizes what went right rather than what…

  • Edington named first Epps Fellow and Chaplain to Harvard College

    The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in The Memorial Church, has announced the appointment of The Reverend Mark D. W. Edington as…

  • Faculty fellows in ethics named

    The Center for Ethics and the Professions has selected the Faculty Fellows in Ethics for the 2000-01 academic year. Six scholars who study ethical problems in government, law, medicine, and…

  • Group looking for a few good fellows

    Harvard graduate students who are writing dissertations or engaged in major research on topics in practical ethics are invited to apply for 2001-02 Graduate Fellowships in Ethics. The deadline is…

  • Extension School names winners of student prizes, faculty awards

    This year, the Extension School’s Commencement Speaker award will go to Kimberly Parke, A.L.M. ’00, assistant director for undergraduate degree programs at Harvard Extension School. The title of her talk…

  • Gagnon elected president of Board of Overseers

    Sharon Elliott Gagnon, A.M. ’65, Ph.D. ’72, has been elected President of the University’s Board of Overseers for 2000-01. She will assume the post after Commencement, succeeding Joan Hutchins ’61.…

  • Grad Grozier motors toward career in journalism

    It should be quite a scene next week in the small bayou town of Pass Christian, Miss., when Ted Grozier arrives.

  • Three honored with GSAS Centennial Medals

    A medical educator, a philosopher, and an historian received Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Centennial Medals at a ceremony on Wednesday, June 7, at the Faculty Club. The…

  • Business School breaks ground for Hawes Hall

    The Business School (HBS) held a groundbreaking ceremony on June 1 for Hawes Hall. Hawes Hall will provide the Business School with a critical resource to continue its core mission…

  • Newsman Kellogg’s beat is the African continent

    When Harvard senior Alex Kellogg finished his semester abroad in the spring of 1998, he went to the Nairobi airport with the rest of his class. But while they were…

  • Lumry Gift Sparks New Investments in Information Technology

    The University will make significant new investments in the field of information technology, especially as it relates to the Internet and entrepreneurial studies. Income from a recent $7 million gift…

  • Honoring history

    Destroyed by fire in 1956, and restored to its original design in 1999, the spire on top of Memorial Hall was rededicated at a ceremony on May 11. Cambridge Historical…

  • Newsmakers

    Glazer honored by CCNY Nathan Glazer, professor of education and social structure emeritus, was awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the City College of New York (CCNY), one…

  • Notes

    Glazer honored by CCNY Nathan Glazer, professor of education and social structure emeritus, was awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the City College of New York (CCNY), one…

  • Don’t Look Back — Senior Filmmaker Randy Bell Has Much to Look Forward to

    In Randy Bell’s ’00 Eliot House dorm room (above), the young filmmaker stands in front of a dartboard, which seems dangerously close to Bob Dylan, the subject of Rice and…

  • Dean has his day

    With only 365 of them per year and a goodly portion occupied with Christmas, Passover, Halloween, and the like, it’s not everyone who gets a day named after him. Michael…

  • Graduates who have already commenced

    Whatever descriptive phrases may be applied to Ourania N. Tserotas, you may be fairly sure that “stick-in-the-mud” will not be one of them. Ourania Tserotas, who stands against a mural…

  • Volunteers sought for Voyage

    Do you have a passion for art? Do you enjoy working with young people? Do you want to make a contribution to your community? If you answered yes, and you…

  • ‘Making life less difficult for one another’

    “I live in a place called Raheny,” says Sinead Walsh ’00, a tall fair-skinned woman with pale blue eyes. “Raheny is five miles away from town” – Dublin, Ireland –…

  • Seniors brave storm for Baccalaureate

    Taking refuge from a powerful nor’easter in Harvard’s best-known chapel, graduating seniors gathered in caps and gowns for the traditional Baccalaureate Service on Tuesday afternoon at the Memorial Church. The…