Year: 2003

After an exhausting, if exciting, tour of Roman busts and Indian painting at the Sackler, a thrilling, if wearying, rendezvous with the Renaissance at the Fogg, and a provocative and stimulating, albeit enervating and challenging, flirtation with German Expressionism at the Busch-Reisinger, you need a place to sit and down some coffee or tea and…

In the prep room behind the blackboards of the Science Centers five lecture halls, excitement crackles in the air as 11 oclock approaches. Members of the media services and lecture demonstrations staffs stand at the ready with computers, buckets of soapy water, a bicycle wheel, and a bed of nails. As the top of the…

Grandparents, hug your grandchildren. They just may be the reason youre here.

Austin applauded for leadership Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration James E. Austin has received a faculty pioneer award from the Aspen Institute and World Resources Institute…

Heading into halftime down just 15 points this past Saturday (Nov.15) against a sharp Penn squad, the Harvard football team could have considered itself the luckiest team in all of football. Later in the fourth quarter, down eight points and threatening to score and possibly tie the game in the closing moments, the Crimson appeared…

Phillips Brooks House (PBH) will launch its annual holiday gift drive on Dec. 1. Organizers hope to collect over 1,000 gifts for children in Boston and Cambridge, many of whose parents are impoverished, homeless, or incarcerated.

Harvard Band manager Dave Nierenberg 04 was showered with flour after showering his fellow band members with real flowers, as is the tradition at the Penn game. Harvard lost, 32-24. (Staff photo Rose Lincoln/Harvard News Office)

To Arthur Kleinman, suffering lifts a veil on society.

As she reflects on her years at Harvard, the moments that will be foremost on senior Alethea Murrays mind are those spent helping the homeless.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Nov. 15. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A guest expert with real-world experience can enliven any college class, from physics to literature.

Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris visited the Harvard Film Archive for a benefit screening of his newest film The Fog of War, a look at Robert S. McNamara, who served as secretary of defense during the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Morris confesses during the Q&A session, One of my greatest fears is to…

New hope may be on the horizon for some people with the wet form of macular degeneration (AMD), an eye disease in which abnormal blood vessel growth causes loss of vision. Results of two large international clinical trials have shown positive results using Macugen, an experimental treatment that targets these abnormal blood vessels. The results,…

When Eric Dawson started Peace Games as a Harvard undergraduate in 1992, his aim was to prevent violence by equipping children with the skills they needed to resolve conflict. Since that time Harvard student volunteers have taught conflict resolution each year in Cambridge and Boston public schools.

In the 1920s, a young bandleader named Duke Ellington galvanized audiences at Harlems Cotton Club with infectiously rhythmic dance tunes that came to be known as jungle music because of their supposed resemblance to the music of Africa.

Prior to the beginning of the first of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values, The Science of Religion and the Religion of Science, President Lawrence H. Summers (from left) speaks with Keith DeRose, professor of philosophy at Yale University Tanner lecturer Richard Dawkins, the Charles Simonyi Chair in the Understanding of Science at Oxford University…

A significant change in policy has predictably decreased the number of students applying to Harvard College under its nonbinding Early Action program by almost 50 percent compared with last year. The Office of Admissions and Financial Aid estimates just under 4,000 students will apply Early Action for admission to the class of 2008, compared with…

Free flu shots available 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…

Subjects ranged from warrior berserkers to Jessica Lynch as students, faculty, and staff at the John F. Kennedy School of Government engaged in a wide-ranging discussion of masculinity, femininity, and warfare Thursday (Nov. 13) in a lunchtime talk with the author of a new book on the subject.

This is the fifth in a series of interviews with Democractic presidential candidates.

In many ways, Australia and the United States seem mirror images of one another.

Jon Woodward was born in Wichita, Kan., where Wyatt Earp was once marshal. The Woodwards werent outlaws. They were more like the families for whose benefit men like Earp had tamed the West. Woodwards father was the principal of a Lutheran elementary school. His mother worked there as a teacher until she dropped out to…

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

First-year Riya Sen studies for her government class in her dorm room while listening to music and looking out at bustling Massachusetts Avenue.

Nov. 21, 1953 – In Yales Woolsey Hall on the morning of the Harvard-Yale football game, Yale confers an honorary Doctor of Laws degree upon recently installed Harvard President Nathan Marsh Pusey 28, AM 32, PhD 37. Not in his fondest dreams, [Pusey] said – with a solemnity which brought a smile to the faces…

A shadow of a tree cast by the late afternoon, mid-November sun has the ominous looking limbs of some strange arboreal creature.