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  Forum: Doing Less Harm
  
  David Hemenway advocates a pragmatic, public-health-based solution to gun homicides and suicides.
  
  12.6.19
  
  A Faculty Motion on Divesting Fossil-Fuel Investments
  
  Debate elicits ideas from an apolitical, science-based call to action, to a lower-carbon-footprint endowment portfolio.
  
  12.4.19
  
  Divestment on the Docket
  
  The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has a formal motion to divest from fossil-fuel production.
  
  11.27.19
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  Harvard and Life Sciences Partners to Build a Center for Biological Therapies
  
  A new center aims to bring cutting-edge medicines “from laboratory to approved therapy.”
  
  11.25.19
  
  In 2017, then-Harvard president Drew Faust and Harvard Law School professor Annette Gordon-Reed unveiled a monument dedicated to people enslaved by law school benefactor Isaac Royall Jr.
  Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
  
  Harvard Explores Slavery Connections Further
  
  The president announces a $5-million initiative.
  
  11.22.19
  
  The exhibit's centerpiece re-creates the table setting of a formal dinner held for freshmen of the Harvard Class of 1913.
  Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.© President and Fellows of Harvard College.
  
  Why We Eat What We Do
  
  “Resetting the Table,” a new exhibit at the Peabody Museum, examines American food traditions.
  
  11.20.19
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  The group of protestors at its largest, before the arrival of police reinforcements.
  Photograph by Kai-Lan Olson
  
  Harvard, Yale Students Delay Second Half of The Game
  
  Student protestors for fossil-fuel divestment delay the second half of The Game.
  
  11.24.19
  
  A First-Gen First
  
  Alumni share their moving stories through the first interest-group “class report.”
  
  11.12.19
  
  Campus Survey: Sexual Assault, Harassment Remain Serious Problems
  
  Results from the second campus survey of sexual misconduct show that sexual assault and harassment remain serious problems at institutions of higher education nationwide.
  
  10.15.19
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  Jayson Toweh and Thea Sebastian, petitioners for the Board of Overseers ballot on the Harvard Forward slate
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  How a Young Alumni Movement Wants to Change Harvard’s Investment Policies
  
  An emerging, expansive view of socially responsive endowment investments
  
  11.25.19
  
  A First-Gen First
  
  Alumni share their moving stories through the first interest-group “class report.”
  
  11.12.19
  
  An Overseers Challenge Slate—and More on Fossil-Fuel Divestment
  
  Young alumni and others advance an agenda of governance change and divestment from fossil-fuel investments.
  
  11.6.19
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  Make It Personal
  
  Local artisans specializing in bespoke holiday treasures
  
  November-December 2019
  
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  (1 of 3) “God’s Trombones, Harlem,” 2009
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  Jazz Photographer Frank Stewart, at Harvard
  
  “The Sound of My Soul: Frank Stewart’s Life in Jazz,” at Harvard
  
  November-December 2019
  
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  Russian ballerina Lubov Tchernicheva, 1920 production of Cleopatra
  Russian ballerina Lubov Tchernicheva in Cleopatra, 1920. © E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection/Curatorial Assistance Inc.
  
  Images from the Ballets Russes
  
  Elegant photographs of dancing’s stars
  
  November-December 2019
- Opinion
  
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  Illustration by Gary Neill
  
  Forum: Doing Less Harm
  
  David Hemenway advocates a pragmatic, public-health-based solution to gun homicides and suicides.
  
  12.6.19
  
  Cambridge 02138
  
  Letters on Angela Davis, the Bureau of Study Counsel, climate change, and more
  
  November-December 2019
  
  Lawrence S. Bacow
  
  Allston in Focus
  
  President Bacow describes the potential for Harvard’s new Allston campus to benefit both gown and town.
  
  November-December 2019
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  (1 of 14) Sporting staid bowlers, early Harvard Band members pose for a formal portrait.
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  A Hundred Years of Music
  
  The Harvard Band celebrates a century.
  
  10.9.19
  
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  (1 of 4) Harrison Greenbaum’s What Just Happened? combines his two creative obsessions: comedy and magic.
  Photograph by Todd Seidenberg
  
  Comedy Is Magic
  
  For Harrison Greenbaum, it began with “Pick a card….”
  
  November-December 2019
  
  Ali Sethi brings the Sanders Theatre crowd to its feet during a concert last spring. His Harvard mentor, Ali Asani (right, in suit and tie), joined him on stage.
  Photograph by Jake Belcher/Courtesy of the Office for the Arts at Harvard
  
  “A Melodic Being”
  
  Singer Ali Sethi finds his voice in classical Pakistani music.
  
  November-December 2019
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  Four score: With Yale's Melvin Rouse II in vain pursuit, Harvard's Aidan Borguet heads for the goal line. The Crimson freshman back rushed for a series single-game record 269 yards and amassed four touchdowns on only 11 carries.
  Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard Crimson
  
  Football 2019: Yale 50, Harvard 43
  
  Harvard falls to Yale in The Game 2019.
  
  11.24.19
  
  Doink! Harassed by Harvard’s Adam Shepherd (86), Penn’s Jake Haggard punts the ball into the back of teammate Ben Padon. The kick traveled only seven yards and the Crimson turned the miscue into a field goal.
  Photograph by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard Crimson
  
  Football 2019: Penn 24, Harvard 20
  
  Another loss for the hapless Crimson
  
  11.17.19
  
  Batch Catch: Having beaten Columbia's Fara'ad McCombs, Crimson junior wide receiver James Batch prepares to reel in a first-quarter touchdown pass.
  Photograph by Tim O'Meara/The Harvard Crimson
  
  Football 2019: Columbia 17, Harvard 10
  
  Another crushing defeat for Harvard.
  
  11.10.19
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  Paul Lee ’46 holds the replica Little Red Flag in this 2012 photograph. Surrounding him (clockwise from upper left) are Spencer Ervin ’54, Jeffrey Lee ’74, and Stephen Goodhue ’51.
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  Seeking a Flag-Bearer!
  
  Who’ll carry the traditionalists’ Little Red Flag?
  
  November-December 2019
  
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  (1 of 14) Sporting staid bowlers, early Harvard Band members pose for a formal portrait.
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  A Hundred Years of Music
  
  The Harvard Band celebrates a century.
  
  10.9.19
  
  Painting of Amos A. Lawrence, 1887, by Eastman Johnson.
  Courtesy of the Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift of friends of Amos A. Lawrence to Harvard University. Photograph of painting ©President and Fellows of Harvard College
  
  Life Lessons
  
  Expansive CVs, and extracurricular insights
  
  November-December 2019
- Podcast
  
  Marcyliena Morgan: How Has Harvard Cultivated Hiphop?
  
  10.21.19
  
  Robin Kelsey: Is a Photograph a Work of Art?
  
  10.7.19
  
  Edward Glaeser: Should We All Be Living in Cities?
  
  9.30.19
  
  David Hemenway: Who Can Solve America’s Gun Problem?
  
  9.20.19
  
  Staci Gruber: How Does Marijuana Affect the Brain?
  
  9.13.19
  
  Lawrence Lessig: What Leads to Academic Corruption?
  
  9.9.19
  
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Visiting Manchester, NH

March-April 2015

The Currier Museum of Art

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Learn about the art, history, and eclectic restaurants of Manchester, NH in “Manchester, Redux."

Destinations

America’s Credit Union Museum
603-629-1553
www.acumuseum.org

Ash Street Inn
603-668-9908
www.ashstreetinn.com

Aviation Museum of New Hampshire
(at the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport)
603-669-4820
www.nhahs.org

Currier Museum of Art
603-669-6144
www.currier.org

Manchester Historic Association and Millyard Museum
603-622-7531
www.manchesterhistoric.org

Palace Theatre
603-668-5588
www.palacetheatre.org

Scouting Museum
603-669-8919
www.scoutingmuseum.org

SEE Science Center
603-669-0400
www.see-sciencecenter.org

The Zimmerman House
603-669-6144
www.currier.org/collections/zimmerman-house

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Café Momo
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Chez Vachon
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Cotton
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Firefly
603-935-9740
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Hanover Street Chophouse
603-644-2467
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Lala’s Hungarian Pastry
603-647-7100
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Mint Bistro
603-625-MINT
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The Puritan Backroom
603-669-6890
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Red Arrow Diner
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