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Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower, and the opinion in the SFFA case
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The anti-affirmative action group continues to seek Supreme Court review of Harvard policies.
Newly elected members include a dozen Harvard faculty affiliates.
The University’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate takes effect December 8.
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Newly elected members include a dozen Harvard faculty affiliates.
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Home prices are a bellwether of efficient spending in local schools
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Rather than shutting down turbines, China can harness surplus wind energy to make “green” hydrogen fuel and industrial chemicals.
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The Undergraduate returns to student life, altered by the pandemic and a year spent apart.
Fariba Mahmud and Courtney Rabb
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Enriching life at the Houses
Harvard Yard
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A recent graduate visits Harvard during a semi-normal semester
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Carolyn Gold intended her book to be a resource for other brain-injury patients.
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Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis
Edgar J. Banks as he appeared in Bismya; or The Lost City of Adab
University of Chicago Library’s Electronic Open
Brief life of an entrepreneurial archaeologist: 1866-1945
Emily Broad Leib at Cambridge’s Pemberton Farms
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Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.
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Evoking Horton Hears a Who
Photograph courtesy of Springfield MuseumsArt, science, sports—and fanciful holiday lights—in central Massachusetts
From left: V (formerly Eve Ensler), Idina Menzel, and Diane Paulus
courtesy of the A.R.T.
Harvard’s Diane Paulus brings climate change to center stage
The 1850 former arsenal that now houses the armory museum
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Springfield Armory National Historic Site
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Risky entanglements in the political arena—and the potential for major new academic investments
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Reginald Dwayne Betts performs Felon: A play; A discourse during a virtual lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Poet and lawyer—and MacArthur “genius”—Reginald Dwayne Betts on art and imprisonment
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Evoking Horton Hears a Who
Photograph courtesy of Springfield MuseumsArt, science, sports—and fanciful holiday lights—in central Massachusetts
From left: V (formerly Eve Ensler), Idina Menzel, and Diane Paulus
courtesy of the A.R.T.
Harvard’s Diane Paulus brings climate change to center stage
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Hold that Tiger: Harvard linebackers Jack McGowan (54) and Jordan Hill put the wraps on Princeton receiver Jacob Birmelin. McGowan had a team-high 11 tackles and an interception.
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An officiating mistake gives Princeton the win.
First aid: Helped by the block of wideout Kym Wimberly (1) on Lafayette defensive back Shaikyi Hannah, Harvard running back Aidan Borguet churns goalward. Borguet piled up 169 yards and scored twice.
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The Crimson men overpower Lafayette.
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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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Harvard remains undefeated with a win over Cornell.
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Richard Lewontin, Richard Zeckhauser, diplomatic security, diverse inclusion, and admissions agita lampooned
(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
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May-June 2002
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