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Federal visa restrictions will prevent freshman international students from living in the United States.
The annual report details administrators’ and endowment investment managers’ compensation.
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Courtesy of the Education Redesign LabA conversation on the crisis and its outcomes with the Graduate School of Education’s Paul Reville
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The U.S. Army's 24th Infantry Regiment, an African-American regiment, arriving at Camp Wikoff in Montauk, New York, 1898
Roosevelt Class No. 560.3, Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard UniversityA Houghton Library project to digitize thousands of African-American records and artifacts
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Attack U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement directive
Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
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Philip Caruso, J.D-M.B.A '19, helped coordinate the military's response to COVID-19 in New York.
Photo courtesy of Philip CarusoHarvard affiliates aid the Defense Department's response to COVID-19 in New York.
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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.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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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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The league becomes first in Division I to scrap fall competition.
Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
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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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(Click on arrow at right to view full image) No true likeness of Callimachus is known to exist, but the Libyan-born poet probably resembled the men whose faces appear on the Hellenistic coffins unearthed in Fayum, Egypt, including this one.
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Brief life (via Platonic dialogue) of a multifaceted poet: c. 310 B.C.E. - c. 240 B.C.E.
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Letters
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