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Michael Mina holds up a rapid test during a Zoom call with journalists
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Rapid COVID-19 tests, of the kind that Michael Mina has been advocating since last year, are finally approved for home use.
Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
William "Bill" Kristol.
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Bill Kristol discusses the future of the Republican Party and the survival of American constitutional democracy.
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A professor and a marketing professional have teamed up to raise awareness of the climate problem through the nonpartisan, nonprofit Potential Energy Coalition.
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A professor and a marketing professional try a new tack in climate-change communications.
Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
Harvard Law School students Anna Vande Velde and William Roberts
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Law SchoolA Law School report offers the City of Boston recommendations for reform.
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Harvard's acceptance rate drops as applications rise.
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Harvard admits a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants
Cabot House members cheered up the wintry Quad with their hand-crafted ice lanterns.
Photograph courtesy of Cabot House faculty dean Ian Miller and resident dean Meg Lockwood.
Undergraduate Houses experiment and innovate in attempts to revive the effervescence that once characterized their student communities.
March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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Loeb House, where the governing boards convene
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The annual election of Overseers and alumni association directors is under way.
Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
Noah Evers ’22 and his grandmother Patricia Greenfield ’62, Ph.D. ’66
Photo by Lauren Greenfield ’87
A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
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Turning your al fresco space into a springtime oasis
A still from The Painter and the Thief
From the filmA short list of fine
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Shen Wei in his New York studio, 2014
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“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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March 2018, Randolph Courtyard: The author (center) and her two future roommates, Sreya at left and Pranati at right, have just run over from the Yard on Housing Day, having learned they’d been assigned to Adams House.
Photograph courtesy of Meena Venkataramanan.
The College’s annual “Housing Day” dramas, conducted online.
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Harvard Computers and Radcliffe students in 1925
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Library ArchivesAlumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
A still from The Painter and the Thief
From the filmA short list of fine
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Justin Deabler
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Fiction about “the power that comes to us when we uncloset ourselves”
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David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
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A legendary route’s disputed distance
An adept passer and gritty defender, Zeng also finished fifth in the Ivy League in service aces.
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Volleyball captain Sandra Zeng’s defensive focus
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Solomon Gate in its typical open position
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
David Melly rounds Harvard Stadium. Running the loop counterclockwise, he acknowledges, is controversial.
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A legendary route’s disputed distance
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Brief life of an underappreciated arachnologist: 1875-1953
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November-December 2019
Letters
Letters on Angela Davis, the Bureau of Study Counsel, climate change, and more
President Bacow describes the potential for Harvard’s new Allston campus to benefit both gown and town.
Articulating a vision for Crimson athletes—and fellow students
The College Pump
Painting of Amos A. Lawrence, 1887, by Eastman Johnson.
Courtesy of the Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of friends of Amos A. Lawrence to Harvard University. Photograph of painting ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Expansive CVs, and extracurricular insights
Treasure
In this Issue
Sarah Richardson
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Historian and philosopher Sarah Richardson interrogates the science of sex and gender.
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At a gathering, circa 1920, of members of the Liberty League, Trotter sits in the first row (fifth from right).Photograph courtesy of Columbia University Library
Brief life of a black radical: 1872-1934
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(1 of 12) Adál Maldonado’s The Passport, 1995, from the series The Spirit Republic of Puerto Rico.Transfer from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Gift of the artist, 2012.178. © ADзL. Image courtesy of Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum
The ubiquity of movement across man-made borders
A.O. Scott at the Quad Cinema, New York City.
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer
Special thanks to The Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th St. New York , New York
A.O. Scott on watching and reviewing a lot of movies
Letters
Letters on Angela Davis, the Bureau of Study Counsel, climate change, and more
President Bacow describes the potential for Harvard’s new Allston campus to benefit both gown and town.
Articulating a vision for Crimson athletes—and fellow students
Right Now
Illustration by Jason Blower
Education policy should focus on schools as a whole, not individual teachers, argues Susan Moore Johnson.
Eric Nelson
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Eric Nelson says John Rawls led modern philosophy astray.
Illustration by Pete Ryan
In combatting climate change, will courts hold that the general welfare trumps local sovereignty?
Harvard Squared
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(1 of 7) Sheila Jordan performs with the Yoko Miwa Trio at The Mad Monkfish, in Cambridge.Photograph by Janice Tsai
A look at the live-music scene: traditional trios to experimental student performers
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Russian ballerina Lubov Tchernicheva, 1920 production of Cleopatra
Russian ballerina Lubov Tchernicheva in Cleopatra, 1920. © E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection/Curatorial Assistance Inc.
Elegant photographs of dancing’s stars
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(1 of 3) “God’s Trombones, Harlem,” 2009
Photograph by Frank Stewart/Courtesy of the Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art
“The Sound of My Soul: Frank Stewart’s Life in Jazz,” at Harvard
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(1 of 3 ) Working Woman
Photograph by Fatimah Tuggar and BintaZarah Studios/Courtesy of the Davis Museum
Fatimah Tuggar explores artisanship and technology, at the Davis Museum
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(1of 6) A vibrant nightclub scene at La FábricaPhotograph by Isabel Lopez/Courtesy of La Fábrica
La Fábrica’s Latin-Caribbean flair
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(1 of 7) Bow Street’s festive courtyard lit up at night.Photograph by Emily Tirella/Courtesy of Bow Market
Somerville’s Bow Market makes its mark.
Courtesy of followthehoney.com
Local artisans specializing in bespoke holiday treasures
John Harvard's Journal
President Lawrence S. Bacow at Morning Prayers
Photograph by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Opening-days messages focus on free speech and civil discourse within Harvard.
The College’s admissions office does not discriminate against Asian-Americans, a federal judge ruled on October 1.
A spirited moment for the women’s lacrosse players. Harvard athletics plays an important role in the lives of the nearly one-fifth of undergraduates participating in intercollegiate sports.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Tackling harassment, athletics, and barriers to international scholars and students
Giang T. Nguyen
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Health Services
New HUHS director, public-service pair, social-club-sanctions lawsuit, and more
Illustration by Simona Mulazzani
The Undergraduate explores the ethics of gathering knowledge.
Tag team: Harvard senior captain and defensive back Wes Ogsbury Jr. (1) and senior linebacker Joey Goodman (59) doubled up on Brown end Dan Gemmell.
Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard Crimson
In the early season, an infusion of new talent and a hot quarterback buoyed the Crimson football team.
Montage
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(1 of 4) Harrison Greenbaum’s What Just Happened? combines his two creative obsessions: comedy and magic.Photograph by Todd Seidenberg
For Harrison Greenbaum, it began with “Pick a card….”
Close to home: Jimmy Hoffa (foreground) and Chuckie O’Brien near the federal courthouse, March 1, 1964, after Hoffa’s trial for jury-tampering
Photograph by Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images
A new look at “one of the greatest unsolved crimes in American history”
Where there are still plenty of real books: the Harvard Depository
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/ HPAC
A visit to the Harvard Depository
Ali Sethi brings the Sanders Theatre crowd to its feet during a concert last spring. His Harvard mentor, Ali Asani (right, in suit and tie), joined him on stage.
Photograph by Jake Belcher/Courtesy of the Office for the Arts at Harvard
Singer Ali Sethi finds his voice in classical Pakistani music.
Sublime seaweed: nature photographer Josie Iselin’s cyanotype of Pikea californica
Photograph by Cyanotype by Josie Iselin
Recent books with Harvard connections
President and supporter: Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, pardoned by President Trump
Photograph by Scott Olson/Getty Images
…and don’t always forgive
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Colin Cabot takes heart in the traditional skills, like woodworking, that are preserved at Sanborn Mills Farm.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Promoting craftsmanship and agrarian skills in an idyllic New Hampshire setting
Michelle Walsh and Benjamin Roy
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Alumni Association
Honoring those who enrich the quality of life in their Houses
Paul Lee ’46 holds the replica Little Red Flag in this 2012 photograph. Surrounding him (clockwise from upper left) are Spencer Ervin ’54, Jeffrey Lee ’74, and Stephen Goodhue ’51.
Photograph courtesy of Judy Goodhue
Who’ll carry the traditionalists’ Little Red Flag?
The College Pump
Painting of Amos A. Lawrence, 1887, by Eastman Johnson.
Courtesy of the Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of friends of Amos A. Lawrence to Harvard University. Photograph of painting ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Expansive CVs, and extracurricular insights