Every Friday, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles from days and years past.

Threats to tie federal funding to the cost of university tuition are unlikely to affect Harvard, Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. said on a conference call with members of the media Thursday.

The vast majority—93 percent—of external funding spent by the physics department in fiscal year 2011 came from federal sources, including a number of grants from the Department of Defense.

As part of her two-day visit to Capitol Hill, University President Drew G. Faust met Tuesday with four Democratic members of the Congressional deficit-reduction “supercommittee” in the hopes that the committee will think twice before slashing funding for student aid and science research as it looks to trim $1.5 trillion from the national debt.

South Boston, a long-time stronghold of conservative Democrats, will likely be a key battle ground in the upcoming 2012 Senate race between incumbent Republican Scott Brown and Warren, the undisputed Democratic front runner.

Undocumented students at Harvard and colleges across the U.S. will not have to worry about immediate deportation due to an executive order issued by the Obama administration in August.

A group of Harvard students is lobbying on behalf of a financial disclosure bill that would increase requirements on the University.

Several times this year Faust has trekked down to Washington D.C., put on a smile, and made her case for Harvard.

A bill filed today by two Massachusetts state legislators could require Harvard University to publicly disclose more detailed financial reports, including property and investment values.

Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords asked newly-appointed Institute of Politics director C. M. Trey Grayson '94 for help in toning down heated political rhetoric hours before Giffords was severely wounded in a shooting rampage in Tucson that killed six people and left a dozen others injured.