Vacation houses available for rent this summer

Harvard's vacation houses in Maine are now available for rent during June, July, and August to salaried officers and faculty of the University. For information, call Harvard Planning and Real Estate at 495-9367.

Rudenstine, Wilson to hold office hours for students

President Neil L. Rudenstine will hold office hours for students on a first-come, first-served basis on Tuesday, April 1, from 4 to 5 p.m. in his Massachusetts Hall office.

President Linda S. Wilson will hold office hours on a first-come, first-served basis on Wednesday, April 2, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in her Fay House office.

Tapes of visiting performers available for research

Recorded material featuring a wide spectrum of artists in the fields of theater, film, dance, classical music, jazz, and the visual arts is now available through the Office for the Arts' Tape Archive, which chronicles its Learning From Performers and Jazz Programs.

Since 1975 the Office for the Arts has welcomed more than 400 artists to Cambridge to meet and work with undergraduates and the community through its Learning From Performers program and Jazz Program.

The material -- audio and video -- is available for research in the Morse Music Collection of Hilles Library in the Radcliffe Quadrangle.

For information about the Tape Archive, call 495-8676.

Health sciences books selected as best of year

The works of a number of Harvard authors have been selected for inclusion in the fourth edition of Doody's Rating Service: A Buyer's Guide to the 250 Best Health Sciences Books, 1997.

The authors are: Francine Benes, Jerome Kagan, Deborah Levy, and Steven Matthysse, Psychopathology: The Evolving Science of Mental Disorder; Barry Brenner, Brenner and Rector's The Kidney; Robert Edelman, Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Jay Harris, Diseases of the Breast; Keith Isaacson, Office Hysteroscopy; Jonathan Mann and Daniel Tarantola, AIDS in the World II: Global Dimensions, Social Roots, and Responses; Thomas Smith, Cecil Textbook of Medicine; Terry Strom and Nicholas Tilney, Transplantation Biology: Cellular and Molecular Aspects; Robert Utiger, Werner and Ingbar's The Thryoid: A Fundamental and Clinical Text; and Gerald Wolf, Marcus Cardiac Imaging: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease.