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With greetings to the community, and a major faculty appointment, new Harvard president Lawrence S. Bacow sets to work.
New filings in a lawsuit against Harvard over admissions allege discrimination against Asian-Americans.
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Could place-based policies solve regional economic and social problems?
Illustration by Martin Hargreaves
In the antebellum South, slavery was paired with modern business practices.
Durba Mitra
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Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
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“Connections” and “Transformations” are both organized around frequent critique sessions,…
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Design courses enlarge the College curriculum.
At Harvard African Students Association’s Africa Night (from left): Tom Osborn ’20 of Kenya; Joshua Benjamin ’21, of Phoenix, Arizona (whose ancestors are Angolan but were first brought to Charleston, South Carolina, in the late seventeenth century); Tawanda Mulalu ’20 of Botswana; and Mfundo Radebe ’20 of South Africa
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The Undergraduate looks at Harvard through an African filter.
Isa Flores-Jones and Catherine Zhang
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The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
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Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
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Solving legal challenges at MoMA
Recollections and Reflections from the Harvard class of 1957—a benchmark reunion project
Davis relaxing in 1910 at Devil’s Thumb, on the Continental Divide near Corona, Colorado
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Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist
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Autumnal mist over Spot Pond
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Just north of Boston, a wild park is filled with forests, lakes, and rocky hills.
Nighttime in the North End
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“Stories the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t want you to hear”
Every human-powered vehicle must stand the test of traveling on asphalt, through mud, and into the Merrimack River.
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Watch human-powered machines prevail—or not—in Lowell.
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At Harvard African Students Association’s Africa Night (from left): Tom Osborn ’20 of Kenya; Joshua Benjamin ’21, of Phoenix, Arizona (whose ancestors are Angolan but were first brought to Charleston, South Carolina, in the late seventeenth century); Tawanda Mulalu ’20 of Botswana; and Mfundo Radebe ’20 of South Africa
Photograph by Christabel Narh
The Undergraduate looks at Harvard through an African filter.
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Sandler relishes having her office within MoMA.
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Solving legal challenges at MoMA
Nell Painter, a professor emerita of American history at Princeton, now works as an artist in Newark, New Jersey.
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Nell Painter reflects on leaving the ivory tower for art school at age 64.
Sharmila Sen
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A “first-gen” American explores race and assimilation in the United States.
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(Click arrow to see full image) The Game, 1911, ending in a less glamorous tie score than in the 1968 version
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Boosting the game, and The Game
Arguably the Ivy League’s most dangerous offensive weapon, the Crimson’s return man and wideout Justice Shelton-Mosley ‘19 is a threat to score every time he touches the ball.
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Justice Shelton-Mosley needs only the tiniest bit of space to go the distance.
Harvard Athletics overhauls coaches’ compensation.
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Students at the Graduate School of Design created the lion’s share of posters used by student activists in 1969.
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An exhibit on Harvard in 1969 opens at Pusey Library this fall.
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The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court
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Davis relaxing in 1910 at Devil’s Thumb, on the Continental Divide near Corona, Colorado
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Brief life of a pioneering geomorphologist: 1850-1934
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American activists unfurl a banner in front of the Supreme Court.
James M. Thresher/Washington Post/Getty ImagesCapital Punishment’s Persistence
An historian tracks the death penalty’s persistence in America.
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January-February 2012
Letters
Keynesian economics, solar costs, education excesses, and more
The College Pump
An Upstairs at the Pudding girlhood, and undergraduate impresario Peter Sellars at Adams House
Treasure
In this Issue
Harvard playwrights, directors, producers, actors, and artistic directors speculate about theatrical prospects for the future.
Adam Kirsch reads the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library—the latest stage in the “American conquest of the Middle Ages”
Letters
Keynesian economics, solar costs, education excesses, and more
Right Now
Brains scans reveal that In moral decision-making, people rely on emotion to guide choices in some situations and rationality in others.
New England Regional
Organic farming and spiritual retreats in a camp-like atmosphere
John Harvard's Journal
The 375th anniversary celebration was wet and muddy, but full of youthful spirit.
The University, still adjusting to the financial crisis, incurs a $130-million deficit and pursues both savings and new revenues.
Harvard's largest faculty narrows its deficit, but faces continuing financial challenges.
Headlines from Harvard's history
A $40-million gift jump-starts a University initiative to adapt learning and teaching to twenty-first-century opportunities and challenges.
A foreign-policy pundit at Commencement, Rhodes and Marshall Scholars, stem-cell center, the Fogg under wraps, and more
The Undergraduate writes about "Reinventing Boston," a course that sends students out to learn about urban progress and problems through immersion in city life.
Women's soccer and men's heavyweight crew have banner seasons.
Details of the ceremony
Montage
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Popular works by evolutionary biologist and baseball fan Stephen Jay Gould back in print
Arthur Kleinman and colleagues explore the Chinese people's yearnings after a century of upheaval and disasters.
Sociologist Robert J. Sampson documents enduring neighborhood differences in Chicago.
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