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Erika Bailey takes notes as Kabir Gandhi '19 delivers the 2019 Latin Salutatory.
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Preparing three student orators for their big day
William F. Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation
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Senior fellow William F. Lee on the University’s priorities during President Lawrence S. Bacow’s first year
James Breyer (left) with honorand Michael Bloomberg at Harvard’s 2014 Commencement
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Further transition for the senior governing board
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Meredith Rosenthal (center) spoke about pharmaceutical marketing's role in the opioid crisis. She is Gray professor of health economics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
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A joint Harvard-University of Michigan summit addresses opioids stigma, drug marketing, and race.
Byerly Hall
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Scholars from diverse disciplines will spend a year devoted to research.
Illustration by Robert Neubecker
What the rare bright spots in American high-school education teach
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Erika Bailey takes notes as Kabir Gandhi '19 delivers the 2019 Latin Salutatory.
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Preparing three student orators for their big day
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences enacts a full agenda of undergraduate academic and social policies.
Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsHarvard College’s down payment on universal student public service
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At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Joe Brett—veteran and Harvard Kennedy School alumnus—addresses Ukrainian veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War. He writes, “I gave them a pin of my old unit, 24th Corps, which happens to be a blue heart on a white shield…or in this case a symbol for peace. We all wept when I gave this out with the words that it was up to us to all work for peace, now that we have met each other as brothers at this memorial…One former Soviet colonel hugged me and, with tears in his eyes, said that all soldiers should be veterans.”
Photograph courtesy of Joe Brett
A Kennedy School reunioner and Vietnam veteran stresses the need to address moral injury.
A flier for Heat Week
Students, faculty, and alumni urge the ditching of corporations linked to climate change.
The author’s father, Noah Gibson, playing fiddle with friends at an Irish music session
Photoraph courtesy of Lydialyle Gibson
A personal story about caregiving and empathy
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Seafood ceviche at Celeste, in Somerville
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An eclectic array of favored restaurants in Greater Boston
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Woman Running to Escape a Sudden Shower, c. 1765-70, by Suzuki Harunobu
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College.Harvard’s enticing Japanese woodblock prints
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At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Joe Brett—veteran and Harvard Kennedy School alumnus—addresses Ukrainian veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War. He writes, “I gave them a pin of my old unit, 24th Corps, which happens to be a blue heart on a white shield…or in this case a symbol for peace. We all wept when I gave this out with the words that it was up to us to all work for peace, now that we have met each other as brothers at this memorial…One former Soviet colonel hugged me and, with tears in his eyes, said that all soldiers should be veterans.”
Photograph courtesy of Joe Brett
A Kennedy School reunioner and Vietnam veteran stresses the need to address moral injury.
Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on friendships formed among and between scholars and students
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Sarah Lewis
Photograph by Melissa BlackallAt a seminal conference, black creative intellectuals explore white supremacy, the arts, and justice.
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Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
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A jar from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kongo culture, 1898 or earlierObject courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
Pliable arts from across the continent
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Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Noah Kirkwood ’22, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, emerged as one of Harvard’s top offensive threats.
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Basketball teams fall short of NCAAs again.
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Click arrow on right for full image: German President Richard von Weizsäcker, the featured Commencement speaker in 1987—the fortieth anniversary of the historic Marshall Plan address
It helps to be a high official of a powerful European nation—and to have resonant things to say about your American allies.
Illustration by Mark Steele
Demonstrating for equality…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
After graduating from the College in 1861, Holmes obtained a commission as first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, known as the “Harvard Regiment.”
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A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
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After graduating from the College in 1861, Holmes obtained a commission as first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, known as the “Harvard Regiment.”
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A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
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Letters
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