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An 18-student advisory committee will aid the search for a successor to President Drew Faust.
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James E. Ryan to depart at the end of the academic year
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How the polar vortex produced rapid evolution in lizards
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The combination of certain factors can determine whether a city is plagued with disease, or is a hub for innovation.
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Photograph by Peter VanderwarkerStudents move into a renovated Winthrop House.
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A look (and listen) back at the Dunster Dunces
Harvard's First Generation Student Union hosts events like the first gen welcome event for freshmen.
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Advocating support for first-generation Harvard students
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Stemberg men's basketball coach Tommy Amaker (left) introduced James Brown '73 (center) and Harry Edwards before a press conference on Wednesday in the Murr Center's Hall of History.
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Sociologist Harry Edwards and broacaster James Brown weigh protest and progress in sports, and in Harvard basketball.
The Hongdae neighborhood of Seoul
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Living calmly next to a nuclear rogue state
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The village grew up around the Meeting House, built in 1792.
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The Canterbury Shakers’ enduring appeal
Branch Line, which pairs fresh fare with craft beers on tap, has transformed part of an historic building at the former Watertown Arsenal.
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Branch Line serves brasserie-style fare in an historic Watertown setting
World’s End offers stunning views of Hingham Harbor…
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A day trip to Hingham
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The Hongdae neighborhood of Seoul
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Living calmly next to a nuclear rogue state
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Celeste Ng’s nimble second novel traces a cross-cultural drama in her Midwestern hometown.
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Akhil Sharma is less interested in ideology in itself than in politics as a backdrop to emotional conflict.
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Crimson tide: Senior defensive back Tobe Eziokoli (26), senior quarterback Joe Viviano (4), junior defensive tackle Scott Garrison (74), senior offensive lineman DJ Mott (71) and junior running back Noah Reimers (24) got a running start on Harvard's 144th football season.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic CommunicationsThe Crimson drops its first season opener since 2011.
Stemberg men's basketball coach Tommy Amaker (left) introduced James Brown '73 (center) and Harry Edwards before a press conference on Wednesday in the Murr Center's Hall of History.
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Sociologist Harry Edwards and broacaster James Brown weigh protest and progress in sports, and in Harvard basketball.
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Under coach Tjerk van Herwaarden, Harvard field hockey ascends.
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Harvard experts provide access to Vietnamese sources on the war.
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March-April 2017
Letters
Readers comment on privacy, gender agendas, the Horsehead Nebula, and more.
President Faust on Crimson creativity and “constructive imagination”
A comment on how institutions present, and understand, themselves
A longtime contributor hangs up his pencil.
The College Pump
The Harvard Business School student photographs of Roslyn Braeman Payne (left) and Ellen Marram
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Business School Yearbook
Coeducating the Harvard Club of New York, Robert McNamara redux, and a professor at home on the range
Treasure
Image courtesy of Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Edwin H. Land and the shaping of entrepreneurship in Greater Boston
In this Issue
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A humanistic “masterclass” for Houghton Library's seventy-fifth anniversary
Henry Knowles Beecher, 1950.
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Brief life of a late-blooming ethicist: 1904-1976
The flowers of Rafflesia arnoldii are the largest in the world.
Photograph by Jeremy Holden
Exploring the genetic mysteries of a gigantic parasite
Justice Stephen Breyer
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The optimistic project of Justice Stephen Breyer
Letters
Readers comment on privacy, gender agendas, the Horsehead Nebula, and more.
President Faust on Crimson creativity and “constructive imagination”
A comment on how institutions present, and understand, themselves
A longtime contributor hangs up his pencil.
Right Now
Illustration by Pete Ryan
Gidon Eshel explains the environmental, social, and political effects of food choices.
Illustration by Stuart Bradford
Scientists think they may have an answer.
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi
Traditional methods of preventing suicide have been ineffective, says psychologist Matthew Nock.
Harvard Squared
Restorative scenes: Most Star Island visitors stay at the historic Oceanic House, overlooking lawns and the harbor.
Photograph by Sean D. Elliot
Wild beauty and meaningful retreats on New Hampshire’s Star Island
American Dream, by Sarah Thomas
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Fashion collides with high art at the Peabody Essex Museum.
An iron lung, used to treat polio, that was manufactured by J.H. Emerson Co., in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Artifacts used to fight American epidemics, at the Public Health Museum in Massachusetts
Walnut Grille tends toward towering dishes and fanciful presentations.
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Expanding vegetarian dining options in Greater Boston
John Harvard's Journal
The right stuff: Freshman point guard Katie Benzan, shown shooting in the home opener against Maine, led the Harvard women’s basketball team in minutes played and points scored per game through January, helping to spark 16 consecutive wins—tying the longest such streak in Crimson basketball history and raising hopes for an Ivy League championship.
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Basketball teams pursue Ivy League tournament titles.
New leadership begins sweeping change, attempting to improve persistent underperformance.
On the agenda: challenges to endowments and philanthropy
Broadening the debate on Harvard’s single-gender social organizations
Elizabeth Hinton
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A scholar of race, justice, and public policy
Illustration by Mark Steele
A morgue for movies, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
A change at Harvard University Press, and more
Illustration by Anthony Freda
The Undergraduate considers campus debate and action in a polarized era.
Martha Minow
Photograph by Ken Richardson
The Law School dean steps down, graduate-student union balloting, divestment, and more
Ted Minnis is Harvard’s winningest water polo coach—his path to Blodgett Pool included a few detours and sharp turns.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Ted Minnis makes Harvard an East Coast power in a West Coast sport.
Harvard’s Ryan Donato rushes toward the net in the November game that broke Boston College’s win streak.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Harvard Athletic Communications
Hockey, squash, swimming and diving: winter sports in brief
Montage
Documentarian Kent Garrett ’63 returned to Harvard last fall for a screening of his work.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
How Black Journal raised the country's consciousness, and opened Kent Garrett's eyes to television's potential
Archaic Paestum—the “beginning” of beauty
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Probing the primal drives of a landmark architect
Elif Batuman
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Elif Batuman’s novel The Idiot reflects on her Harvard freshman year.
Before writing anything down, Robert Kyr composes his works—music and text—“internally,” he says, from start to finish.
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Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Windermere, 1821, by Joseph M.W. Turner, in the spirit of Wordsworth
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Wordsworth seen anew, and other recent books
Elizabeth Bishop: the poet at ease, in 1954
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Adam Kirsch reviews Megan Marshall’s biography of poet Elizabeth Bishop.
Alumni
Shannon Liss-Riordan
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan takes on the app economy.
The 2017 slates
Harvard celebrates its volunteer alumni leaders.
The College Pump
The Harvard Business School student photographs of Roslyn Braeman Payne (left) and Ellen Marram
Photographs courtesy of Harvard Business School Yearbook
Coeducating the Harvard Club of New York, Robert McNamara redux, and a professor at home on the range
Treasure
Image courtesy of Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Edwin H. Land and the shaping of entrepreneurship in Greater Boston