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Photograph by Lydia Carmichael/Harvard MagazineSome students have deferred their enrollment to next year.
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Winnie, Texas is not considered to be in a floodplain. But coastal hurricanes have flooded the town repeatedly since 2008.
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To protect against rising seas, local lenders are selling off risky mortgages.
A selection of Harvard Magazine's writing on immigration, displacement, and the global refugee crisis
A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
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Cambridge’s Sofra Bakery & Café feeds sheltering crowds.
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(1 of 4) Crabapple specimens, with views of Boston, on Peters HillPhotograph by Jon Hetman/Courtesy of the Arnold Arboretum
Summertime at the Arnold Arboretum
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Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
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This 1895 map of New York City was created by socialist activist Walter Vrooman, who hoped that by showing the "concrete socialism" of every street, park, school, public building, and public dock in red (and allowing private enterprises to recede into the white background), he might persuade readers that the rest of the map should be socialist as well.
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Curator Garrett Dash Nelson ’09 on the Boston Public Library’s exhibition of “persuasive cartography”
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September-October 2015
Letters
A letter from the editor
On Mary Sears, Gen Ed, football concussions, and more
A letter from President Faust
The College Pump
The 1927 baseball team. Zarakov is fourth from left in the front row, elbow to elbow with Mitchell.
Courtesy of the Harvard Club of New York
How Jim Connor got to Harvard, and Isadore Zarakov’s home run
Treasure
Sheet VII of Rock’s map of the “Cho-Ni” territory
Map courtesy of the Harvard Map Collection
An adventuresome Arnold Arboretum botanizer's heroics in 1920s China
In this Issue
In Nigeria, Tomato Jos hopes to help improve farmers’ practices and sales, to boost their incomes.
Photograph courtesy of Tomato Jos
Addressing human needs at the base of the economic pyramid through private enterprise
Andrew Bujalski
Photograph by Jay L. Clendenin/Contour by Getty Images
The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski
With her 1964 screenprint the juiciest tomato of all, Corita Kent created a word portrait of the Virgin Mary as a tomato. This print seems to establish the artist nun as an apostate: in fact, she was responding both to liberalizing changes taking place within the Catholic Church as part of the Second Vatican Council and to Pop art’s appropriation of commercial language, images, and symbols to create fine art.
Collection of Jason Simon, New York, TL41302. © Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John and Kimiko Powers, M15531. © / courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/ © President and Fellows of Harvard College
A Harvard exhibit situates her work in the Pop art movement.
An 1849 portrait of Bond by Cephas Giovanni Thompson
Portrait courtesy of Harvard University Portrait Collection, H180. Image: Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Brief life of Harvard's first astronomer: 1789-1859
Letters
A letter from the editor
On Mary Sears, Gen Ed, football concussions, and more
A letter from President Faust
Right Now
Illustration by Mike Lester
Overly aggressive physicians account for significant healthcare cost, according to a recent study.
Fossil river deltas on Mars, such as this one in Eberswalde Crater, bear many similarities to river deltas on Earth. Such features suggest that Mars once had flowing liquid water on the surface, motivating study of the planet’s early climate.
Photograph by NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Researchers suspect ancient Martian climate was cold and icy.
Illustration by Tom Chitty
According to two HBS studies, sharing can benefit individuals but hurt businesses.
Harvard Squared
The Crane Estate’s palatial abode and hillside Casino Complex
Photograph Courtesy of the Trustees
Restorations revive the grand spirit of a North Shore estate.
Masks, mariachi music, and sugar skulls at Harvard’s Peabody Museum
Roger D. Metcalf/Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology highlights the holiday on November 1.
Cambridge Carnival dancers on parade
Photograph by Paul Byran/Cambridge Carnival
The Cambridge Carnival celebrates food and culture.
Animaris Adulari (2012)
Photographs courtesy of Theo Jansen
Dutch artist Theo Jansen's otherworldly strandbeests
The Hull Lifesaving Museum is housed in the original, Victorian-era Lifesaving Station on Boston's South Shore.
Photograph courtesy of the Hull Lifesaving Museum
The South Shore's Hull Lifesaving Museum reflects more than a century of rescues at sea.
John Harvard's Journal
Heavy construction under way in the Harvard Kennedy School's (former) courtyard
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JC
Overhauling the Kennedy School campus, the Business School’s new executive-education center, and College House renewal
On the first day of the new curriculum’s launch, Gordon professor of medical education Richard Schwartzstein (at far right, and in subsequent photographs) leads an orientation in a large group classroom equipped with interactive technologies that facilitate case-based collaborative learning.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Harvard Medical School's new curriculum emphasizes the process of learning to learn rather than rote memorization.
Catherine Brekus
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A Harvard Divinity School specialist on women in early America
Douglas W. Elmendorf, Harvard Kennedy School dean-designate
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The Kennedy School’s new dean, Alice in Wonderland exhibition, the late James F. Rothenberg, and more
Robin J. Ely
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The Business School looks at gender effects within organizations—and its own walls.
Illustration by Mark Steele
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Illustration by Sarah Hanson
The undergraduate finds an unexpected route to well-being.
Bailey Trela ’16 and Jenny Gathright ’16
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The magazine’s Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective.
Montage
One of Chiang’s covers for Wonder Woman
Image by Cliff Chiang
A comics artist tries his hand at a new story.
Forrest O’Connor (at left), Kate Lee, and Jim Shirey
Photograph by Wayne Ebinger
A folk trio finds their harmony, on the road.
Ceridwen Dovey, author of Only the Animals and Blood Kin
Courtesy of Ceridwen Dovey
What animals can teach us
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Olmsted's 1867 plan for “Fort Green or Washington Park, in the city of Brooklyn,” New York Plan from Design for Laying Out Grounds Known as Fort Green or Washington Park, in the City of Brooklyn, 1897
Courtesy of the Prospect Park Alliance
Olmsted's parks, Putin and Ukraine, climate shock, and more
Illustration by Gaby D’Alessandro
Two practitioners consider the enterprise of pure mathematics.
Alumni
Record Hospital veteran Peter Menz tests a rock-and-roll 45.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
For 75 years, WHRB has moved beyond the “warhorses.”
An 1840 etching of the alumni procession during Harvard’s bicentennial celebration in 1836
Courtesy of the Harvard Universty Archives
The Harvard Alumni Association celebrates its founding.
Paul L. Choi ’86, J.D. ’89
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A short profile of Paul L. Choi, the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association
Erin Moore and her bicultural guide (below)
Photograph by Fiona Saunders
Erin Moore ’98 clarifies Britishisms and Americanisms in That’s Not English.
Did you take VES 130 or VES 150 during spring term 1967?
The College Pump
The 1927 baseball team. Zarakov is fourth from left in the front row, elbow to elbow with Mitchell.
Courtesy of the Harvard Club of New York
How Jim Connor got to Harvard, and Isadore Zarakov’s home run
Treasure
Sheet VII of Rock’s map of the “Cho-Ni” territory
Map courtesy of the Harvard Map Collection
An adventuresome Arnold Arboretum botanizer's heroics in 1920s China