Letters
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Readers respond to articles on robots, final clubs, comparing campuses, and more.
An Invincible Spirit
President Faust writes about Harvardians’ tradition of military service.
Speaking Frankly, at West Point
How Harvard might discuss liberal-arts education more fruitfully
July-August 2016
Features
The Plant Prospectors
Collecting expeditions race the anthropocene extinction to sample wild botanical diversity.
Nathaniel Bowditch
Brief life of a mathematician and businessman: 1773-1839
The Outsiders’ Insider
Turning the Black List into a business, to modernize Hollywood’s dream machine
Does Money Matter?
How super PACs actually shape U.S. presidential politics
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs
Welfare promotes entrepreneurship, finds HBS researcher Gareth Olds.
What Makes Teams Tick
A new study finds that the most successful research teams are grounded in a group identity.
Why Sex Succeeds
Sex preserves beneficial mutations, and allows harmful ones to be purged.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Scene 1, Take 2
Harvard goes Hollywood for Commencement, with sunny scenery, but sober talk.
Honoris Causa
The honorands of 2016
The Talk
Commencement oratory from Steven Spielberg, Drew Faust, and others
Laugh Lines
Speakers making funny at the 365th Commencement
Commencement Confetti
A multitalented student, political zingers, a retiring Commencement directors, final-club ribbing, and more
Academic Allston, At Last
Amid an Allston building boom, the first new academic ties between Harvard Business School and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
The Art and Science of Class Scheduling
How to improve class scheduling—now, and when College classes cross the Charles River for the new engineering complex in Allston.
Dustin Tingley
Political scientist Dustin Tingley studies the politics of everyday life.
University People
Currier House chiefs, Harvard College Professors, top teachers, and more
Endowment Insights
Congressional inquiry reveals insights into Harvard's endowment-management costs, financial aid, and other schools' policies.
Yesterday's News
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
News Briefs
Final-club sanctions, a new Corporation member, medical conflicts of interest, MIT capital campaign, and improving student writing
Brevia
Slaves at Harvard, an early-childhood education initiative at HGSE, Air Force ROTC returns, climate change, the Extension School, and more
Whittling Down
Pre-Commencement, the Undergraduate assesses his unfinished works.
A Fast Start
First-years Ngozi Musa and Gabby Thomas help set the pace for track and field.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Stepwise
A ballet career, earned through college and cattle calls
Guilt-Free Childbirth
Strong words from a combatant in the childbirth wars
Brain Food
In Andrea Tsurumi's comics and illustrated work, life is observed and shown as absurd.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
With Seamus Heaney in Elysium
A new translation from the Aeneid
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
The Animals’ Kingdom
Debra White built the Winslow Farm Animal Sanctuary in Norton, Massachusetts.
Sweet Sweat
The benefits of sweating at a traditional Finnish sauna in Pembroke, Massachusetts
Cycling Sightseers
A taste of The Landscape Architect’s Guide to Boston.
Winslow Homer's Early Days
A mansion promotes artist Winslow Homer’s roots in Belmont, Massachusetts.
In with the New
Parsnip restaurant is a handsome replacement for Upstairs on the Square.
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Teach a Man to Fish
How Gloucester’s Russell Sherman got hooked
Harvard Medalists
For “extraordinary service to the University”
Cambridge Scholars
The four winners will begin study in the other Cambridge this fall.
The Senior Alumni
The oldest graduates at Commencement
Centennial Medalists
Honorands whose contributions to society emerged from graduate study
Election Results
Candidates nominated by the Harvard Alumni Association drew the most votes.
Tools for Change
An alumna’s novel approach to helping Kenyan tweens
The Comeback Kid
The post-Harvard hockey tales of Bill Keenan
