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Crises can bring renewal, and Harvard is poised for a rebirth.The turmoil of the past five years yielded an unexpected benefit. People from every part of the academic community talked to each other about what they saw slipping away. In conversations among professors and nurses, among technicians and police officers...
From one perspective, then, this club’s e-mail archives were no more remarkable or revealing than the e-mail archives of any of Harvard’s student groups. From the archives, we learned that social club members benefit from their alumni network both in terms of...
After the tumult of the past year, we are embarking on a period of relative stability under interim University President Derek C. Bok and interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles. Yet we should not think of this time as a return to familiar and comfortable things. To do...
While an undergraduate at Princeton University, when Caroline M. Elkins informed her parents that she would be majoring in African history, they were “a bit horrified.” A professorship at Harvard and a Pulitzer later, the Elkins are probably glad their daughter did not major...
Alberts explained in February that he had first learned of Summers’ decision from a New York Times reporter, but was contacted by a Corporation member shortly afterward. “This did not disturb me,” Alberts wrote in an e-mail, “as...