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A Radcliffe Institute panel examines the protest movement against police violence and structural racism.
Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
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Photograph by Lydia Carmichael/Harvard MagazineSome students have deferred their enrollment to next year.
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Winnie, Texas is not considered to be in a floodplain. But coastal hurricanes have flooded the town repeatedly since 2008.
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To protect against rising seas, local lenders are selling off risky mortgages.
A selection of Harvard Magazine's writing on immigration, displacement, and the global refugee crisis
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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Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
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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Details of the virtual degree-conferral ceremonies
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A selection of Harvard Magazine's writing on immigration, displacement, and the global refugee crisis
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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Salisbury Beach State Reservation
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(1 of 4) Ipswich River Sanctuary (Mass Audubon)Photograph courtesy of Mass Audubon/Kelly Moffett
Getting away and outside safely this summer
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How to plan your staycation summer
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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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The Undergraduate faces up to a postgraduate life without handrails.
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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
This 1895 map of New York City was created by socialist activist Walter Vrooman, who hoped that by showing the "concrete socialism" of every street, park, school, public building, and public dock in red (and allowing private enterprises to recede into the white background), he might persuade readers that the rest of the map should be socialist as well.
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Curator Garrett Dash Nelson ’09 on the Boston Public Library’s exhibition of “persuasive cartography”
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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.
Salisbury Beach State Reservation
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September-October 2013
Letters
Letters on geoengineering, energy divestiture, drug discovery, and more
A letter from the editor on the humanities at Harvard
A letter from President Faust
The College Pump
Treasure
In this Issue
On crafting a liberal-arts education by reading the classics and shaping one's life course
Letters
Letters on geoengineering, energy divestiture, drug discovery, and more
A letter from the editor on the humanities at Harvard
A letter from President Faust
Right Now
The Internet has led to cultural and economic changes that tilt power away from large organizations, argues Nicco Mele in a new book.
Elizabeth Greenspan explores the rebuilding of the Twin Towers in her new book Battle for Ground Zero.
A poster by Harvard scientists shows 4.6 billion years of evolutionary history.
New England Regional
Three snapshots from the front lines
John Harvard's Journal
An outside review of Harvard's e-mail reviews finds further problems of policy and execution.
The associate professor of urban planning studies sports facilities and their impact.
Lawyer James Ryan, new dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education, is a scholar and champion of equal educational opportunity.
From the pages of the <i>Harvard Alumni Bulletin</i> and <i>Harvard Magazine</i>
Facing declining enrollments, the humanities seek to reinvent themselves.
In the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, efforts are under way to attract more tenure-track women.
The University details its 10-year aspirations for development on the other side of the Charles River.
Harvard news: College dean, HarvardX, socially responsive investing, library leaders, and more
Montage
<i>Assassin’s Creed’</i>s head writer Corey May explains how writers create video games that are immersive and participatory.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
The College’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid honors eight outstanding alumni interviewers.
Photographer Diana Mara Henry ’69 publishes her collection <i>Women on the Move</i>.
Rich Wilson ’72 circled the globe—nonstop, solo, under sail—and has written the tale.
Shared Interest Group events in September and October
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