Harvard A to Z

John T. Bethell, Richard M. Hunt, Robert Shenton

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9780674012882
• eBook ISBN:
  9780674020894
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

Open this book and step into the storied corridors of the nation's oldest university; encounter the historic landmarks and curiosities; and among them, meet the famous dropouts and former students, the world-class scholars, eccentrics, and prodigies who have given the institution its incomparable character.

An alphabetical compendium of short but substantial essays about Harvard University—its undergraduate college and nine professional schools—this volume traverses the gamut of Harvardiana from Aab and Admissions to X Cage and Z Closet. In between are some two hundred entries written by three Harvard veterans who bring to the task over 125 years of experience within the university. The entries range from essential facts to no less interesting ephemera, from the Arnold Arboretum designed by Frederick Law Olmsted to the peculiar medical specimens of the Warren Museum; from Arts and Athletics to Towers and Tuition: from the very real environs (Cambridge, Charles River, and Quincy Street) to the Harvard of Hollywood and fiction.

Harvard A to Z is a browser's delight, offering readers the chance to dip into the history and lore, the character and culture of America's foremost institution of higher learning.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Map of Harvard
• Aab
• Admissions
• Adolphus Busch Hall
• Affirmative Action
• Allston
• Alpha-Iota of Massachusetts
• Alumni
• American Repertory Theatre
• Architecture
• Archives
• Arms
• Arnold Arboretum
• Art Museums
• Arts
• Athletics
• Bells
• Brattle Theatre
• Business School
• Cambridge/Boston
• Cantab
• Carpenter Center
• Characters
• Charles River
• Clocks
• College Pump
• Commencement
• Consulting
• Continuing Education
• Core Curriculum
• Crimson
• Crimson Key
• Dance
• Deans
• Dental School
• Dining Services
• Diplomas
• Discipline
• Diversity
• Divinity School
• Dropouts
• Dumbarton Oaks
• Ed School
• Elmwood
• Endowment
• ETOB
• Extinct Harvard
• Faculty Club
• “Fair Harvard”
• Fashion
• Fictional Harvard
• Film Archive
• Final Clubs
• Fire
• First Year
• Firsts (Men)
• Firsts (Women)
• Fountains
• Fundraising
• Gates
• Gay and Lesbian
• Gazette
• Gilbert & Sullivan
• Glass Flowers
• God’s Acre
• “Godless Harvard”
• Gold Coast
• Governance
• Grade Inflation
• GSAS
• GSD
• Great Salt and Other Relics
• Guardhouse
• Harvard Advocate
• Harvard College
• Harvard Crimson
• Harvard Elsewhere
• Harvard Forest
• Harvard Foundation
• Harvard Hall
• Harvard Heroes
• Harvard Hill
• Harvard Magazine
• Harvard Neighbors
• Harvard Student Agencies
• Harvard Union
• Harvard University Press
• Hasty Pudding Show
• Hillel
• Holden Chapel
• Hollywood’s Harvard
• Honorary Degrees
• Houghton Library
• Houses
• Information Technology
• International Outreach
• Ivy League
• Jazz
• John Harvard—and His Statue
• Kennedy School of Government
• Lamont Library
• Lampoon
• Law School
• Lectures
• Libraries
• Life Raft
• Maps
• Medical School
• Memorial Church
• Memorial Hall
• Music
• Native American Program
• Nieman Fellows
• Nobel Laureates
• Observatories
• Ombuds
• Outings and Innings
• Phillips Brooks House
• Portrait Collection
• Presidents
• Prodigies
• School of Public Health
• Public Service
• Quincy Street
• Radcliffe
• Rebellions and Riots
• Regalia
• Research Centers and Institutes
• Reunions
• Rhodes Scholars
• ROTC
• Sanders Theatre
• Sardis
• Science Museums
• Scientific Instruments
• Signet Society
• Society of Fellows
• Soldiers Field
• Songs and Marches
• Statues and Monuments
• Theatre Collection
• Towers
• Trademark Protection and Technology Transfer
• Tuition
• UHS
• Underground
• University Professors
• Vanserg Hall
• Villa I Tatti
• Virtual Harvard
• Wadsworth House
• Warren Museum
• WHRB
• Widener Library
• Wireless Club
• X Cage
• The Yard
• Z Closet
• ZephGreek
• Appendix: Harvard Lingo
• Acknowledgments
• Illustration Credits
• Index