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Alec Karakatsanis puts “human caging” and “wealth-based detention” in America on trial.
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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How the polar vortex produced rapid evolution in lizards
A surgical technique designed to preserve proprioceptive signals after amputation should allow patients to sense the location of their prostheses, feedback that is often compromised by convential surgery.
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Improved surgical techniques enhance prosthetic function.
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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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The Undergraduate contemplates cycles in college friendships.
Natasha Lasky and Tawanda Mulalu
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The Ledecky Fellows provide an undergraduate perspective on life at Harvard.
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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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Alec Karakatsanis puts “human caging” and “wealth-based detention” in America on trial.
Akhil Sharma
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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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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, at the Watertown Arsenal, has solid brasserie-style fare.
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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President Drew Faust on the rise, and significance, of engineering and the applied sciences at Harvard
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Akhil Sharma
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Akhil Sharma is less interested in ideology in itself than in politics as a backdrop to emotional conflict.
Members of the Asian Tour sing on the steps of Dubrovnik Cathedral in August 1967.
Photograph by Hal Gibbons
Fifty years after they sang their way around the globe as undergraduates, they returned to Cambridge with full hearts and voices.
A drawing of the 20 x 24 camera presented to Polaroid shareholders at the 1982 annual meeting
Diagram of 20 x 24 camera from Annual Meeting, May 1982. Polaroid Corporation Administrative Records, Baker Library, Harvard Business School.
Why did Polaroid build cameras this big?
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Under coach Tjerk van Herwaarden, Harvard field hockey ascends.
Post-Title IX, more women have entered competitive sports like basketball.
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How Title IX expanded women’s opportunities in sports
Lone paddlers take in the sunset
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Paddling the Merrimack in Lowell and Lawrence
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A Channel first, a voluntary U.S. history exam, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
The artist as master colorist: Henri Matisse, Woman with a Hat (Femme au Chapeau), 1905
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John Kenneth Galbraith’s letters, Linda Greenhouse, color in art, and more
Memorial Hall burning in September 1956—with flames beyond the reach of firefighting apparatus
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A fresh source for Harvard humor, a critique embedded in a memorium, and historic photos of a famous campus fire
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This 1939 acetate disc of Ezra Pound’s full recording bears a handwritten annotation that reads “’Altaforte’ not to be played” and scratch marks to prevent the poem from being played accidentally.
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A Carpenter Center exhibition traces the history of a once-banned poem.
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