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Photograph courtesy of Carolyn Gold; photo collage by Niko Yaitanes
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Over the goal: Harvard junior running back Aaron Shampklin eludes the desperate lunge of Cornell's Kenan Clarke to score the clinching touchdown. It was Shampklin's second score of the day and sixth of the season.
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(1) Carnations. (2) Gillyvors.
Perdita: The fairest flower o' the season
Are our Carnations and streaked Gillyvors,
Which some call Nature's bastards
Winter's Tale, Act IV, sc. 4
(3) Willow.
Queen: There is a Willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
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The discovery of Rosa M. Towne’s paintings in the Harvard Botanical Museum
Field of dreams: On Saturday at Fitton Field (where he had unloaded a 76-yard punt in 2019), Harvard junior punter Jon Sot unleashed 64- and 67-yard boomers.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
A third straight victory for the Crimson
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Carolyn Gold intended her book to be a resource for other brain-injury patients.
Photograph courtesy of Carolyn Gold; photo collage by Niko Yaitanes
Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis
A 33.6 percent return on endowment investments, as expense controls and donor support buoy the budget in an unprecedented year
Group finds that tenure is not broken but can use improvements.
Click on arrow at right to view additional images
(1 of 4)
Over the goal: Harvard junior running back Aaron Shampklin eludes the desperate lunge of Cornell's Kenan Clarke to score the clinching touchdown. It was Shampklin's second score of the day and sixth of the season.
Photograph by Angela Dela Cruz
Harvard remains undefeated with a win over Cornell.
Reginald Dwayne Betts performs Felon: A play; A discourse during a virtual lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Screenshot by Harvard Magazine
Poet and lawyer—and MacArthur “genius”—Reginald Dwayne Betts on art and imprisonment
(1) Carnations. (2) Gillyvors.
Perdita: The fairest flower o' the season
Are our Carnations and streaked Gillyvors,
Which some call Nature's bastards
Winter's Tale, Act IV, sc. 4
(3) Willow.
Queen: There is a Willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
There on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
Clamoring to hang, an envious sliver broke.
Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 7Artwork by Rosa M. Towne and photograph by Edward Tabor
The discovery of Rosa M. Towne’s paintings in the Harvard Botanical Museum
Field of dreams: On Saturday at Fitton Field (where he had unloaded a 76-yard punt in 2019), Harvard junior punter Jon Sot unleashed 64- and 67-yard boomers.
Photograph by Gil Talbot/Courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
A third straight victory for the Crimson
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