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Erika Bailey takes notes as Kabir Gandhi '19 delivers the 2019 Latin Salutatory.
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Preparing three student orators for their big day
William F. Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation
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Senior fellow William F. Lee on the University’s priorities during President Lawrence S. Bacow’s first year
James Breyer (left) with honorand Michael Bloomberg at Harvard’s 2014 Commencement
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Further transition for the senior governing board
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Meredith Rosenthal (center) spoke about pharmaceutical marketing's role in the opioid crisis. She is Gray professor of health economics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
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A joint Harvard-University of Michigan summit addresses opioids stigma, drug marketing, and race.
Byerly Hall
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Scholars from diverse disciplines will spend a year devoted to research.
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Corporate reports contain clues to predicting a firm’s future performance.
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Erika Bailey takes notes as Kabir Gandhi '19 delivers the 2019 Latin Salutatory.
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Preparing three student orators for their big day
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences enacts a full agenda of undergraduate academic and social policies.
Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsHarvard College’s down payment on universal student public service
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At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Joe Brett—veteran and Harvard Kennedy School alumnus—addresses Ukrainian veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War. He writes, “I gave them a pin of my old unit, 24th Corps, which happens to be a blue heart on a white shield…or in this case a symbol for peace. We all wept when I gave this out with the words that it was up to us to all work for peace, now that we have met each other as brothers at this memorial…One former Soviet colonel hugged me and, with tears in his eyes, said that all soldiers should be veterans.”
Photograph courtesy of Joe Brett
A Kennedy School reunioner and Vietnam veteran stresses the need to address moral injury.
A flier for Heat Week
Students, faculty, and alumni urge the ditching of corporations linked to climate change.
The author’s father, Noah Gibson, playing fiddle with friends at an Irish music session
Photoraph courtesy of Lydialyle Gibson
A personal story about caregiving and empathy
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Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Woman Running to Escape a Sudden Shower, c. 1765-70, by Suzuki Harunobu
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College.Harvard’s enticing Japanese woodblock prints
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At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Joe Brett—veteran and Harvard Kennedy School alumnus—addresses Ukrainian veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War. He writes, “I gave them a pin of my old unit, 24th Corps, which happens to be a blue heart on a white shield…or in this case a symbol for peace. We all wept when I gave this out with the words that it was up to us to all work for peace, now that we have met each other as brothers at this memorial…One former Soviet colonel hugged me and, with tears in his eyes, said that all soldiers should be veterans.”
Photograph courtesy of Joe Brett
A Kennedy School reunioner and Vietnam veteran stresses the need to address moral injury.
Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on friendships formed among and between scholars and students
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Photograph by Melissa BlackallAt a seminal conference, black creative intellectuals explore white supremacy, the arts, and justice.
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Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
Jocelyn and Chris Arndt, siblings from Fort Plain, New York, balanced a full-time tour schedule and undergraduate life.
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For two Harvard siblings, studying and songwriting went hand in hand.
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Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Noah Kirkwood ’22, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, emerged as one of Harvard’s top offensive threats.
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Basketball teams fall short of NCAAs again.
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Click arrow on right for full image: German President Richard von Weizsäcker, the featured Commencement speaker in 1987—the fortieth anniversary of the historic Marshall Plan address
It helps to be a high official of a powerful European nation—and to have resonant things to say about your American allies.
Illustration by Mark Steele
Demonstrating for equality…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
After graduating from the College in 1861, Holmes obtained a commission as first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, known as the “Harvard Regiment.”
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A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
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July-August 2003
Letters
SEGREGATION, NOW AND THENI enjoyed Drew Gilpin Faust's delightful "Living History" (May-June, page 38), about racial segregation in...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Denison Beach has been hanging around the front steps of...
Treasure
Artemas Ward, A.B. 1748, A.M. '51, lay ill in bed on April 19, 1775, as embattled farmers fired the shot heard round the world. But when a...
In this Issue
A vibrant democracy depends upon important foundations: adequate socioeconomic conditions, elite commitment, some consensus within the society...
Under Saddam Hussein's rule, Iraq amassed about $100 billion in debt. This estimate is rough, and it will be months before the details about...
Science is like fishing. Patience, perseverance, and skill are part of it. Luck also plays a large role. But finding the right location often...
"I have not wandered very far afield," wrote Henry Francis du Pont, A.B. 1903, in his fiftieth reunion report. With characteristic...
Lehner’s front photogrammetric elevation of the Great Sphinx. Below: As seen in a north elevation, weathered limestone and bedrock form the Sphinx’s head and upper body. Photogrammetric elevations by Mark Lehner
Not slaves. Archaeologist Mark Lehner, digging deeper, discovers a city of privileged workers.
Humberto started to pace back and forth across the floor of the cinder-block home, cradling his son in his arms. There had to be a story. In...
Letters
SEGREGATION, NOW AND THENI enjoyed Drew Gilpin Faust's delightful "Living History" (May-June, page 38), about racial segregation in...
Right Now
Staggering beneath the yoke of oppressive taxes, the medieval residents of Coventry, England, pleaded in vain for relief. Ironically...
Imagine: A complete stranger promises a brand-new digital camera if you'll send $100. Once the check clears, you're told, the camera will be in...
A century ago, psychoanalysts declared that the human personality was largely fixed by age five. More recently, biologically oriented...
The 1995 truck bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City hastened a revolution in urban design and planning. Architectural terms...
When Monet's Impression Sunrise, a sensuous if sleepy painting of Le Havre's harbor, debuted in 1874, it enraged critics. They abhorred the...
New England Regional
Last fall, World War II veteran Lawrence Lader '41 and several octogenarian Harvard classmates marched in uniform in front of the White House to...
Long before it became a fraternity of the atrociously behaved and was taken out behind the barn and shot, the Pi Eta Speakers Club occupied a...
John Harvard's Journal
One might have anticipated that the volumes of talk from Harvard podiums during Commencement week, so soon after the smoke cleared in Baghdad...
Two women and nine men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 352nd Commencement. In the absence of a University marshal, Provost Steven Hyman...
Mather House seniors, from left, Samantha Goodwin, of Freeburg, Illinois; Jordan Goss, of Arlington, Texas; Paul Kwak, of Beavercreek...
VITAL STATISTICS The University awarded 6,349 earned degrees, 11 honorary degrees, and 290 certificates at its 352nd Commencement. Diplomas went...
I doubt that I was the first farm boy accepted to Harvard University, but when I arrived in Cambridge you certainly could have fooled me. Fresh...
We must love one another or die. This line appears near the end of W.H. Auden's poem "September First, 1939." Perhaps you've heard it...
(as prepared for delivery) INTRODUCTION This has been a good year for the University. We continue to make first-rate faculty appointments...
Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, A.M. '62, was the recipient of the 2003 Radcliffe Medal and gave an address at the Radcliffe Association annual...
Elena Kagan, J.D. '86, once a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and later an adviser on domestic policy issues to President...
When Harvard purchased land from the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA) in 2000, it was an historic moment: for the first time, the...
Much more aggressive education, a new office to provide "the first line of support" to students with concerns about sexual violence...
Robert M Gogan, Jr. Photograph by Stu Rosner Rob Gogan is Harvard's recycling and waste-management impresario. "It's a dream job,"...
Masters in the House(s) Jay and Cheryl Harris Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Service Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis announced on...
The newly merged offices of dean of Harvard College and dean of undergraduate education have been entrusted to Benedict H. Gross '71, Ph.D. '78...
The data—or at least some data—are now in on the effects of Harvard's new Wage and Benefits Parity Policy (WBPP) for custodial...
Baker Library is empty of its books, staff, and readers. It is doing business elsewhere, at several locations both on and off the Business...
Offering a confident defense of globalization, now assailed by many critics, Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers delivered this year's Edwin...
In creating a diverse portfolio for Harvard's $17.5-billion endowment, the University's investment arm, Harvard Management Company (HMC)...
Where are the frontiers of knowledge? Increasingly, at the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines. One way to trace emerging fields is...
Dental Doings Dave Destroche Three decades and more after its 11,000-square-foot “interim” building was created, the Harvard...
Alumni
She made a high-energy but graceful entrance, nothing too theatrical, sat in a director's chair at a butcherblock coffee table in this...
Harvard Medalists Three alumni received the Harvard Medal and were publicly honored for their extraordinary service by President Lawrence H...
June 4 marked what its president, Raine Figueroa '84, M.B.A. '91, said was the last formal annual meeting of the Radcliffe Association (RA)...
Harvardians journeying to the north side of San Antonio—the "Texas Hill Country"—may need only look skyward for a familiar...
The College Pump
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Denison Beach has been hanging around the front steps of...
Treasure
Artemas Ward, A.B. 1748, A.M. '51, lay ill in bed on April 19, 1775, as embattled farmers fired the shot heard round the world. But when a...