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  9.27.22
  
  Augustin Pajou (French, 1730–1809), Diomède assailli par les Troyens, son écuyer tué à côté de lui (Diomedes Assaulted by the Trojans, His Horseman Killed at His Side), 1756. Black ink, gray wash, black chalk, and red wash. 59.3 × 84.8 cm. Musée du Louvre, Departement des Arts graphiques, RF 40437, TL42421.2.
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  What Was the Enlightenment, Really?
  
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  9.26.22
  
  Winokur Family Hall, scene of the celebratory science symposium that marked the launch of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University.
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  9.23.22
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  Winokur Family Hall, scene of the celebratory science symposium that marked the launch of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University.
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  More than 5,000 years ago, Caucasus hunter-gatherers from the highlands between the Black and Caspian Seas traveled west to Anatolia and north to the steppe, splitting their Proto-Indo-European language into two branches. From the steppe, their Yamnaya horse-herder descendants spread their language and genes into daughter languages and cultures across Eurasia. Border colors indicate the geographic origins of five source populations before their migrations (shown by correspondingly colored arrows), while the pie charts show the post-migration admixtures in these regions.
  Figure reprinted with permission from I. Lazaridis et al., Science 377:939(2022).
  
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  8.25.22
  
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  8.24.22
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  At Freshman Convocation, the class of 2026 banner is unfurled for the first time.
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  8.30.22
  
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  September-October 2022
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  Winokur Family Hall, scene of the celebratory science symposium that marked the launch of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University.
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  9.20.22
  
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  9.13.22
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  September-October 2022
  
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  September-October 2022
  
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  September-October 2022
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  9.20.22
  
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  September-October 2022
  
  The commercial "enterprise research campus" will begin rising on the gray parcel at the center, above—but Harvard's broader strategy is not widley known.
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  September-October 2022
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  Translator William Tamplin joined the Marine Corps earlier this year.
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  9.6.22
  
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  (1/4) KYM DANDY Even while in the clutches of Brown's Harrison Ochs (5), Harvard's Kym Wimberly (1) reached over the goal for his second touchdown. The senior wideout bedeviled the Brown secondary, making a game-high eight catches.
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  Football 2022: Harvard 35-Brown 28
  
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  9.25.22
  
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  (1/4) OPENING STRETCH. Sophomore backup quarterback Charles DiPrima and his mates got limbered up for the 148th season of Harvard football.
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  Football: Harvard 28-Merrimack 21
  
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  9.18.22
  
  Breakout season: All eyes will be on the Crimson's Aidan Borguet (21 in white, breaking loose against Columbia) as he steps into the lead back role. As a sophomore in 2021, Borguet was named second-team All-Ivy.
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  9.15.22
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Harry Parker

September-October 2013

The word “legend”gets applied almost indiscriminately to sports figures these days, but Harry Parker, head coach of heavyweight mens’ crew at Harvard for 51 years, was the genuine article. He may be the most successful coach in the history of American college sports: across the decades, his crews’ overall winning percentage was in excess of .800; they won 16 official and unofficial national championships, and never had a losing year. Even at age 77, Parker was still at the peak of his powers: his last three crews went undefeated in the regular season.

He did this while coping with a rare form of blood cancer that took his life on June 25. Many oarsmen regarded him as their most important teacher at Harvard. (For more on Parker, see this issues's Letters section, and the online report, “Harry Parker, Legendary Crew Coach, Dies.”)

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(1/4) KYM DANDY Even while in the clutches of Brown's Harrison Ochs (5), Harvard's Kym Wimberly (1) reached over the goal for his second touchdown. The senior wideout bedeviled the Brown secondary, making a game-high eight catches.
Photograph by Dylan Goodman/Harvard Athletic Communications

Football 2022: Harvard 35-Brown 28

Harvard football players limbering up for season-opening game

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(1/4) OPENING STRETCH. Sophomore backup quarterback Charles DiPrima and his mates got limbered up for the 148th season of Harvard football.
Photograph by Dylan Goodman Photography/courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications

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