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A Radcliffe Institute panel examines the protest movement against police violence and structural racism.
Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
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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.
Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
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Details of the virtual degree-conferral ceremonies
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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
Selections from Harvard Magazine’s extensive coverage of wealth and income inequality
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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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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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Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
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.
From the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center/Boston Public Library
Curator Garrett Dash Nelson ’09 on the Boston Public Library’s exhibition of “persuasive cartography”
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Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
Georgina Milne tucks and flips, helping Harvard defeat Brown.
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Diver Georgina Milne pictures a post-pandemic return.
Salisbury Beach State Reservation
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Strict lines in the sand
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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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(Click on arrow at right to view full image) No true likeness of Callimachus is known to exist, but the Libyan-born poet probably resembled the men whose faces appear on the Hellenistic coffins unearthed in Fayum, Egypt, including this one.
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Brief life (via Platonic dialogue) of a multifaceted poet: c. 310 B.C.E. - c. 240 B.C.E.
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Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.
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The Way of the Critic
A.O. Scott on watching and reviewing a lot of movies
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From the Archives: The Talent for Aging Well
George E. Vaillant's generational research on Harvard men unveils the differences that distinguish the "happy-well" from the "sad-sick" in later life.
From the original cover in 1997: John Dockery ’66, the only alumnus to earn a Super Bowl ring (click the white arrow on the right to see full image), displays mementos of his varsity sport. Such three-letter men have given way to single-sport stars like Naomi Miller ’99, a striker on the women’s soccer team. Updated 6/26/19: In 2013, Matt Birk ’98 became the second alumnus to earn a Super Bowl ring, playing for the Baltimore Ravens.
From the Archives: The Professionalization of Ivy League Sports
The rise of specialization, year-round competition, proprietary training, and recruiting in student athletics
From the Archives: Image and the Arc of Feeling
Jorie Graham’s challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem.
Record Hospital veteran Peter Menz tests a rock-and-roll 45.
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A Broadcast Cornucopia
For 75 years, WHRB has moved beyond the “warhorses.”
A Feel for the Water
Charley Butt succeeds the legendary Harry Parker as Harvard's heavyweight men's crew coach.
Tim Mayotte Joins Harvard Tennis
The former Wimbledon semifinalist aims to improve the Crimson squad’s level of play.
The “Wild West” of Academic Publishing
The troubled present and promising future of scholarly communication
Choosing Confidants
Barbers, bartenders, and beauticians are as privy to our secrets as are family and friends.
Rooks and Reverse Layups
Wesley Saunders of basketball excels at anticipation, just as he did in chess.
Iconoclastic Music Educator
Rejecting the “tyranny of competence,” John Payne helps musicians bloom.
Bears, Oars, Metaphors
Novelist and outdoorsman John Casey’s two new books look at teaching writing and his athletic exploits.
