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Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
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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
Georgina Milne tucks and flips, helping Harvard defeat Brown.
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Diver Georgina Milne pictures a post-pandemic return.
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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.
Photograph by Sean Rayford/Getty Images
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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How to plan your staycation summer
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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
Sofra's fresh-baked raspberry-rose jam turnovers
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Cambridge’s Sofra Bakery & Café feeds sheltering crowds.
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A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Photograph by Sean Rayford/Getty Images
The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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Illustration by Nicolas Ogonosky
The Undergraduate faces up to a postgraduate life without handrails.
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(1 of 4) Bill Clinton with Yasser Arafat, King Hussein, and Benjamin Netanyahu, October 1, 1996, at the White HousePhotograph by Ron Sachs/CNP/Getty Images
On restoring American leadership through diplomacy
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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.
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
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.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
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Africa in Clay
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Vacant streets and closed storefronts in Manhattan's Chinatown
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How the COVID-19 economic crisis has been fundamentally different from past recessions
Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine Gay
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Dean Claudine Gay outlines “minimal,” “moderate,” and “full” residential scenarios, and the hurdles that have to be overcome.
This photograph of a Harvard University Police officer at a Boston protest against mistreatment of people of color at the hands of police was widely shared on Twitter. The officer in the photograph, and six others dispatched in response to a request for mutual aid from the Boston police department, were members of the HUPD bicycle patrol, an innovation Riley instituted in the 1990s to improve community relations. Some members of the Harvard community were outraged at the presence of Harvard officers at an off-campus rally against police brutality.
Police chief Riley to retire, and the University commissions an external review of the department.
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(1 of 5) Cabot House: Ian Miller, Crate Herbert, and their son LiamPhotograph courtesy of Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Cabot, Eliot, Kirkland, Quincy and Winthrop Houses will have new leadership starting July 1
Dan Barouch
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The when and how of vaccines
“[W]e will not be pursuing any furloughs or layoffs of our employees at this time,” executive vice president Katie Lapp wrote in an email.
What Harvard has already learned from the pandemic—and strategic challenges to come