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Fellow classics concentrators Sam Beck ’16 (left) and E.E. Cummings ’15
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What one undergraduate learned
10.18.17
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Claudine Gay, social science dean and Cowett professor of government and of African and African American studies
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The initative includes interdisciplinary conversation, annual symposia, and a postdoc program.
Nadya Okamoto
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Nadya Okamoto ’20 is juggling wider aspirations and school work.
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Growth in Harvard healthcare costs moderates.
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Oral bacteria can lodge in the gut and trigger inflammatory bowel conditions.
Illustration by Taylor Callery
Machine learning may raise the potential for predicting where—and when—an earthquake might strike.
Pakistanis eating rice, a staple crop and major source of protein in South Asia.
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How global warming can change crop nutrition
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Nadya Okamoto
Courtesy of Nadya Okamoto for Cambridge City Council
Nadya Okamoto ’20 is juggling wider aspirations and school work.
The Winthrop House library
Photograph by Peter Vanderwarker
Undergraduates return to newly improved digs.
Rachel L. Gable
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCHow some colleges help first-generation and low-income students succeed
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Fellow classics concentrators Sam Beck ’16 (left) and E.E. Cummings ’15
What one undergraduate learned
Maureen Freely
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Maureen Freely ’74, longtime translator of Orhan Pamuk, shares the nuances of bringing a text from one language to another.
Kaey Nakae, of the champion Santa Barbara Condors, gets “totally horizontal,” exhibiting the Ultimate form David Gessner admired.
Photograph by Tom KennedyRecent books with Harvard connections
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Rare books and ephemera at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
Cooking lessons at the French Cultural Center
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Greater Boston’s cultural centers offer a lot more than language classes.
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Harvard’s Houghton Library explores “Altered States: Sex, Drugs, and Transcendence.”
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Readers comment on criminal injustices, alumni who died in Vietnam, political correctness, and more.
Drew Faust
President Drew Faust describes Harvard’s efforts to evaluate how well—and what exactly—its students learn.
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Stephanie Burt, recently named co-editor of poetry at The Nation, in her office at Harvard
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Stephanie Burt ’94 is the kind of poetry critic who provokes anger in other poetry critics.
Among the nineteenth-century frauds Kevin Young explores are the pseudo-scientific Great Moon Hoax.
Photograph from Chronicle/AlamyFrom the Missouri Compromise to the 2016 election, Kevin Young's Bunk takes stock of American hoaxes, con men, and race fantasies.
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Harvard's Charlie Booker deployed a mighty stiff arm to fend off Lafayette's Philip Parham. The Crimson junior rampaged his way to a career-high 159 yards on the ground.
Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard CrimsonThe Crimson gets back on track.
On one of his 11 tackles, Harvard senior defensive back Tim Haehl wrapped up Cornell's James Hubbard after a seven-yard gain.
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Cornell inexorably outmuscles Harvard.
At Rhode Island, junior powerhouse Charlie Booker III rumbled for gains of 50 and 57 yards en route to a game- and career-high 139.
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An Ivy win and a terrible injury mark Harvard football's early season.
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Fellow classics concentrators Sam Beck ’16 (left) and E.E. Cummings ’15
What one undergraduate learned
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“Vagabonding,” Harvard Student Agencies, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Massachusetts Hall
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Twenty submissions have been selected as semifinalists to replace the final line in Harvard’s alma mater.
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A young girl jumps rope on the sidewalk next to her family’s belongings after they received a court order of eviction that was carried out by McLennan County deputy constables in Waco, Texas. Families like hers are the kind of clients badly in need of legal representation—and most often unlikely to receive it.
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America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law”
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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.
Photograph by Christina DavisPound, On the Record
A Carpenter Center exhibition traces the history of a once-banned poem.
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Kaey Nakae, of the champion Santa Barbara Condors, gets “totally horizontal,” exhibiting the Ultimate form David Gessner admired.
Photograph by Tom Kennedy
Recent books with Harvard connections
Stephanie Burt, recently named co-editor of poetry at The Nation, in her office at Harvard
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Stephanie Burt ’94 is the kind of poetry critic who provokes anger in other poetry critics.
Among the nineteenth-century frauds Kevin Young explores are the pseudo-scientific Great Moon Hoax.
Photograph from Chronicle/Alamy
From the Missouri Compromise to the 2016 election, Kevin Young's Bunk takes stock of American hoaxes, con men, and race fantasies.
Hedden in the northern section of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument. Behind him are the Six Shooter Peaks, where, he says, “the U.S. Department of Energy wanted to build a nuclear waste plant.”
Photograph by Tim Peterson
A Utah activist reflects on 40 years of land conservation—and what’s coming next.
Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Alumni Association
Harvard seniors help Houses thrive.
John Wang’s installation “100+ Years at 73 Brattle,” winner of Radcliffe’s biennial art competition
Photograph by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe Institute
John Wang ’16, winner of Radcliffe’s public art competition, reflects on art and historical perspective.
Fure focuses during a July workshop for The Force of Things: An Opera for Objects.
Photograph by Marina Levitskaya/ Courtesy of Peak Performances @ Montclair State University
Composer Ashley Fure wants people to listen to noise.
Stemberg men's basketball coach Tommy Amaker (left) introduced James Brown '73 (center) and Harry Edwards before a press conference on Wednesday in the Murr Center's Hall of History.
Photograph by Gil Talbot
Sociologist Harry Edwards and broadcaster James Brown weigh protest and progress in sports, and in Harvard basketball.