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Drew Faust poses with 2017 class marshals
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The 2017 Baccalaureate address
Sherry Turkle
Photograph by Jim Harrison
At the 2017 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises, Sherry Turkle and Mark Doty spoke about connection and conscience.
Students wait to receive their stoles at Black Commencement.
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A new ceremony honors black graduates across Harvard’s schools.
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A worker in Brazil sprays insecticides into a house to kill Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which carry the Zika virus.
Photograph courtesy of Marcia Castro
Harvard researchers race to stem the disease’s deadly spread.
Photograph by Anne Cusack /los angeles Times/Getty images
Linguists have documented the ability of sign languages to do all the things spoken languages can do, using three-dimensional space instead of sound.
Willa Cather, finance expert
Photograph courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society
A Business School professor ties finance and humanities together.
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Drew Faust poses with 2017 class marshals
Photograph by Jim Harrison
The 2017 Baccalaureate address
Senior captain Josh Ellis '17 started playing catcher as a 10-year-old Little Leaguer, he says, and "never looked back."
Photograph by Elan Kawesch
On the eve of his graduation, the baseball team’s Josh Ellis looks forward—and back.
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Former students, friends, family, and colleagues gather to celebrate Harry Lewis on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.
Colson Whitehead
Photograph by Michael Lionstar
Journalist, novelist, and social scientist honored
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Barry Van Dusen’s barn swallow (nesting at Stone Barn Farm)
Courtesy of Barry Van Dusen
A trip to Mass Audubon’s unique art museum
Steampunk style merges “neo-Victorian fashion with retro-futuristic technology.”
Photograph by Bobbi Lane
Steampunk Festival celebrates art and history in Waltham, Massachusetts
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A state’s pension-plan problems highlight the endowment challenge to realizing Harvard’s goals.
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Barack Obama listening to his advisors, in the Oval Office, April 2010.
Official White House photograph by Pete Souza
Harvard Review editor Major Jackson, RI ’07, linked 200 poets in this verse tribute to the president.
Cynthia Nixon and Jennifer Ehle in A Quiet Passion
© A Quiet Passion/Hurricane Films/Courtesy of Music Box Films.
In his film A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies illuminates Emily Dickinson’s daily life and eternal poetry.
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Recreating the Philosophy Chamber
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Senior captain Josh Ellis '17 started playing catcher as a 10-year-old Little Leaguer, he says, and "never looked back."
Photograph by Elan Kawesch
On the eve of his graduation, the baseball team’s Josh Ellis looks forward—and back.
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Illustration by Michael Witte
Roger Angell tees off, David Halberstam survives the Charles, and more
In the momentum-building Beanpot victory: Crimson forward Alexander Kerfoot skates against Boston University.
Photograph by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images
Strong seasons in hockey, fencing, and swimming
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Challenges and response (clockwise from upper left): Prague residents watch a Communist May Day parade in 1948; the Secretary of State; physical destruction in Münster, Germany in 1945; Marshall in the Commencement procession.
Clockwise from upper left: © Archive Photos; George C. Marshall Research Library (Montage by Jim Gipe); © Archive Photos; Harvard University News Office
When Secretary of State George C. Marshall received a degree—and established the standard for U.S. engagement with the world
Marshall with President Conant and fellow honorands (from his left) Bradley, Wadsworth, Oppenheimer, Richards, and Eliot, before his speech.
Courtesy of Harvard University Archives
When the Marshall Plan was announced at Harvard
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Teachings of the Philosophy Chamber, recreated
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Self-Regulating Coffee Drinkers?
A new Harvard School of Public Health study suggests people naturally regulate their coffee consumption.
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Former students, friends, family, and colleagues gather to celebrate Harry Lewis on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.
David A. Fahrenthold
Courtesy of David A. Fahrenthold
David Fahrenthold ’00 will continue to hold President Trump accountable.
Colson Whitehead
Photograph by Michael Lionstar
Journalist, novelist, and social scientist honored
Thomas D. Cabot. The portrait of him in uniform was painted by F.W. Benson in 1917.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Firsthand accounts of Harvard men and women who lived through it, 100 years after the United States entered the Great War
The Brookline birthplace of John F. Kennedy
Photograph courtesy of the National Park Service, John F. Kennedy National Historic Site
Centennial celebrations for John F. Kennedy in Brookline
Barry Van Dusen’s barn swallow (nesting at Stone Barn Farm)
Courtesy of Barry Van Dusen
A trip to Mass Audubon’s unique art museum
The Asa Gray Garden honors the Harvard botanist
Courtesy of Mount Auburn Cemetery
Springtime at Mount Auburn Cemetery