Letters
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Readers comment on charter schools, final clubs, the doubly disadvantaged, veterans’ memories
Bricks and Mortar
President Faust on Harvard’s changing campus
Do-Overs
When it pays to rethink a policy
November-December 2016
Features
Educating Teachers
Harvard gets serious about training its graduates to teach in the classroom.
Facing Harvard
When the College commissioned Copley
Global Health at Home
Harvesting innovations from around the world to improve American medical care
Alan Seeger
Brief live of a premonitory poet: 1888-1916
Death Throes
Sibling scholars Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker seek to change how America thinks about capital punishment.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Letters from Prison
Business leaders explain how they went astray.
Can Happiness Make You Healthier?
Research aims to discover whether happiness improves physical health.
Super Drugs for Super Bugs
New methods for manufacturing antibiotics aim to replenish a dwindling drug pipeline.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Artful Campus
At Harvard Business School, contemporary art moves outdoors.
The Endowment Ebbs
Investment losses and distributions for the budget reduce the assets by $1.9 billion.
Paying a $1.4-Billion Repair Bill
Affording House renewal
$7 Billion, and Counting
The capital campaign proceeds.
Matthew Wittmann
Cultural historian Matthew Wittmann makes a home at Harvard's performing-arts library.
Yesterday's News
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
Online-Education Updates
MOOC technology in classroom use, for degrees, and more
John Adams at Harvard
What he learned and what he made of it
Laura Levis
The untimely death of a former colleague
Brevia
Medical School dean, humanities and sciences honorands, and an app for thriving at Harvard
“A Few Writing Projects”
Learning to negotiate the backyard and the divine
Rebuilding or Reloading?
A successful beginning of the football season
“Acting As If” for 35 Seasons
Basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith lives up to, and inspires, with her motto.
New-Look Lavietes
Upgrading a venerable basketball arena
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Outside In
The director of Head Over Heels and The Star, on animation's different dimensions
Bruegel’s Art of Mass Appeal
Crowd painting that attracts crowds.
Lines of Friendship
Poet Jean Valentine on literary companionship
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Fusion Fantasy
Ken Liu’s hybrid fiction crosses oceans and galaxies.
Toward Democracy in America
Reviewing a masterwork on the past, and future, of democracy
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
“Going Aboard?”
Herman Melville’s epic is “brought to life” in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Holly Day Fair
Holly Hill Farm’s winter fair in Cohasset, Massachusetts
Take to the Hills
Appalachian Mountain Club’s winter hiking in the Blue Hills
Steampunk’s Sole
Brockton’s Fuller Craft Museum offers Steampunk art that celebrates the city’s shoe-manufacturing legacy.
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
World Music 2.0
In Uproot, Jace Clayton ’97 explores technological trends in music around the globe.
Electing Overseers
Plans to overhaul the Board of Overseers’ election procedures
Hiram S. Hunn Awards
Seven alumni are honored for volunteer College admissions work.