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How Facebook Escaped Harvard

In 2004, a frenzy spread across Harvard Yard in days. Four billion users later, we are only just catching up.

A Play for the Ages Propels Crimson Football to Victory

Dick Friedman on Harvard’s 20-17 win over Colgate

Brief life of Blanche Ames, intrepid botanical illustrator, by Laura J. Snyder

Brief life of an intrepid botanical illustrator: 1878-1969

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Former Indiana University president Thomas Ehrlich looks back on curriculum, co-education, and other major trends.

Caricature of a young man in front of red doors, wearing a green striped sweater.

In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.