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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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Durba Mitra
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Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
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
Gerald López on a pedestrian bridge two blocks from his childhood home in East Los Angeles. For him, rebellious lawyering is not just a legal theory, but a way of being.
Photograph by Coral von Zumwalt
Gerald López’s radical theory—and practice
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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
Photograph by Christabel Narh
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
Photograph courtesy of the Houghton Library
Brief life of William Morris Davis, pioneering geomorphologist
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Autumnal mist over Spot Pond
Photograph by Mike Ryan
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.
Photograph by Lucinana Calvin/Courtesy of the Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race
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.
Photograph courtesy of Alexis Sandler
Solving legal challenges at MoMA
Nell Painter, a professor emerita of American history at Princeton, now works as an artist in Newark, New Jersey.
Photograph by John Emerson
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.
Poster courtesy of the Harvard University Archives
An exhibit on Harvard in 1969 opens at Pusey Library this fall.
Illustration by Taylor Callery
The “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme Court
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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
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January-February 2018
Letters
Readers comment on unequal university resources, educational effectiveness, final clubs, and first-generation students
President Drew Faust on the enduring struggle to assure access to education.
Thoughts on the coming reconstruction of Harvard Square—and the University’s front door
The College Pump
Treasure
In this Issue
The Arnold Arboretum’s Michael Dosmann with a Rodgersia leaf and plumes of Astilbe grandis
Photograph by Jonathan Shaw
The hunt for rare plants in China
Mercer and his beloved dog, Rollo
Courtesy of the Mercer Museum & Library
Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930
Fred Moten
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship
Norbert “Nubbins” Wiener, shown here in boyhood, was 14 when he matriculated at Harvard in 1909.
Photograph courtesy of the MIT Museum
Parents and superkids, then and now
Letters
Readers comment on unequal university resources, educational effectiveness, final clubs, and first-generation students
President Drew Faust on the enduring struggle to assure access to education.
Thoughts on the coming reconstruction of Harvard Square—and the University’s front door
Right Now
Illustration by Sam Ward
The United States is finally in a position of energy dominance, but its ability to harness this boom is fraught with challenges.
An osteoarthritic knee, the polished femur clearly visible, from a 600-year-old skeleton housed in the Peabody Museum.
Photograph by Jim Harrison/©2018 President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, PM# 968-10-40/N9174.0
Neither increased obesity nor longevity explains the doubling of knee osteoarthritis since World War II.
Illustration by Øivind Hovland
An increasing consolidation of ownership in health care
Harvard Squared
Michael Frank and Louise Sacco with the stylish doggie stars of Blue Tango (acquired from an Indiana thrift shop) at the Somerville museum.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
A Somerville museum highlights art “so bad, it’s good.”
Photograph courtesy of the ART
HEAR WORD! portrays the lives of Nigerian women.
A scene from Newport’s dramatic Cliff Walk
Photograph courtesy of Discover Newport
Visiting Newport, Rhode Island, during the winter
Pork bao at Shōjō
Photograph courtesy of Shōjō
Asian-fusion food with a Western twist at Chinatown's Shōjō restaurant
John Harvard's Journal
A view of the renewed Kennedy School from within its courtyard
Photograph ©Peter Vanderwarker.
A campus remade in the course of the capital campaign
After another surplus, cautions about the University’s future financial constraints
Megan Sniffin-Marinoff
Photograph by Stu Rosner
The University archivist on what it means to “document Harvard”
Congressional tax bills aim at universities’ endowment income.
George Q. Daley, dean of Harvard Medical School
Photograph by Stu Rosner
One year into his deanship, George Daley shares his vision for Harvard Medical School.
The dean of freshmen departs, Rhodes and Marshall scholars, and more
Final-club regulations and preventing preprofessionalism
Samuel Huntington
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
A memorial minute on the eminent political scientist
Illustration by Mark Steele
“Reading period” debuts, the Maharishi visits, a blizzard shuts down the University, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Photograph courtesy of Tawanda Mulalu
Teaching rap in a Chinese high school, and contemplating one’s blackness
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell
The University Marshal retires, MacArthur fellows, diversifying freshman pre-orientation, and more
Recognizing outstanding authors and artists for serving our readers
He’s gone! Against Lafayette, junior Justice Shelton-Mosley scored on an 85-yard punt return.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard Crimson
A humbling defeat in The Game caps Harvard’s dreariest season in 17 years.
Building on last year’s record-setting rookie season, Dean Farris is still finding out just how fast he can go.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
No longer a “skinny kid,” swimmer Dean Farris ’20 builds on his breakout rookie season.
Montage
Jonathan Bailey Holland
Photograph by Robert Torres
Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland on finding his musical voice
Colin Jost (left) with his co-host, Michael Che, at the Weekend Update desk for Saturday Night Live
Photograph by Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
Comedian Colin Jost, from Shouts and Murmurs to Saturday Night Live
Dara Horn
Photograph by Michael B. Priest
Dara Horn breathes life into classical Jewish sources.
Portraits of James Madison, 1816, by John Vanderlyn and of Dolley Madison, 1804, by Gilbert Stuart
Paintings courtesy of the White House Historical Association
Lincoln Caplan reviews Noah Feldman’s The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Recent books with Harvard connections
Alumni
Father Columba Stewart
Photograph by Guytano Magno/Hill Museum & Manuscript Library/Saint John’s University
A globe-trotting monk with the Benedictine “survival gene” seeks out treasured manuscripts.
Nancy Churnin’s biographies for children span time and space.
Nancy Churnin’s picture-book biographies for children span time and space.