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Erika Bailey takes notes as Kabir Gandhi '19 delivers the 2019 Latin Salutatory.
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Preparing three student orators for their big day
William F. Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation
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Senior fellow William F. Lee on the University’s priorities during President Lawrence S. Bacow’s first year
James Breyer (left) with honorand Michael Bloomberg at Harvard’s 2014 Commencement
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Further transition for the senior governing board
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Meredith Rosenthal (center) spoke about pharmaceutical marketing's role in the opioid crisis. She is Gray professor of health economics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.
Photograph by Keith Tolman
A joint Harvard-University of Michigan summit addresses opioids stigma, drug marketing, and race.
Byerly Hall
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Scholars from diverse disciplines will spend a year devoted to research.
Illustration by Robert Neubecker
What the rare bright spots in American high-school education teach
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Erika Bailey takes notes as Kabir Gandhi '19 delivers the 2019 Latin Salutatory.
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Preparing three student orators for their big day
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences enacts a full agenda of undergraduate academic and social policies.
Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and CommunicationsHarvard College’s down payment on universal student public service
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At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Joe Brett—veteran and Harvard Kennedy School alumnus—addresses Ukrainian veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War. He writes, “I gave them a pin of my old unit, 24th Corps, which happens to be a blue heart on a white shield…or in this case a symbol for peace. We all wept when I gave this out with the words that it was up to us to all work for peace, now that we have met each other as brothers at this memorial…One former Soviet colonel hugged me and, with tears in his eyes, said that all soldiers should be veterans.”
Photograph courtesy of Joe Brett
A Kennedy School reunioner and Vietnam veteran stresses the need to address moral injury.
A flier for Heat Week
Students, faculty, and alumni urge the ditching of corporations linked to climate change.
The author’s father, Noah Gibson, playing fiddle with friends at an Irish music session
Photoraph courtesy of Lydialyle Gibson
A personal story about caregiving and empathy
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Seafood ceviche at Celeste, in Somerville
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An eclectic array of favored restaurants in Greater Boston
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Woman Running to Escape a Sudden Shower, c. 1765-70, by Suzuki Harunobu
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums ©President and Fellows of Harvard College.Harvard’s enticing Japanese woodblock prints
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At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Joe Brett—veteran and Harvard Kennedy School alumnus—addresses Ukrainian veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War. He writes, “I gave them a pin of my old unit, 24th Corps, which happens to be a blue heart on a white shield…or in this case a symbol for peace. We all wept when I gave this out with the words that it was up to us to all work for peace, now that we have met each other as brothers at this memorial…One former Soviet colonel hugged me and, with tears in his eyes, said that all soldiers should be veterans.”
Photograph courtesy of Joe Brett
A Kennedy School reunioner and Vietnam veteran stresses the need to address moral injury.
Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow on friendships formed among and between scholars and students
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Photograph by Melissa BlackallAt a seminal conference, black creative intellectuals explore white supremacy, the arts, and justice.
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Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is the choice in general nonfiction.
Jocelyn and Chris Arndt, siblings from Fort Plain, New York, balanced a full-time tour schedule and undergraduate life.
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For two Harvard siblings, studying and songwriting went hand in hand.
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Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
Noah Kirkwood ’22, the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, emerged as one of Harvard’s top offensive threats.
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Basketball teams fall short of NCAAs again.
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Click arrow on right for full image: German President Richard von Weizsäcker, the featured Commencement speaker in 1987—the fortieth anniversary of the historic Marshall Plan address
It helps to be a high official of a powerful European nation—and to have resonant things to say about your American allies.
Illustration by Mark Steele
Demonstrating for equality…and other headlines from Harvard’s history
After graduating from the College in 1861, Holmes obtained a commission as first lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, known as the “Harvard Regiment.”
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A new biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. illuminates the Supreme Court during the centennial of his most momentous dissent.
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Bibliophile behind the footlights: Harry Widener (front row, far left) acted in high school in an English version of a French farce.
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Brief life of a theater-loving bibliophile: 1885-1912
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November-December 2016
Letters
Readers comment on charter schools, final clubs, the doubly disadvantaged, veterans’ memories
President Faust on Harvard’s changing campus
When it pays to rethink a policy
The College Pump
Defense secretary Robert McNamara arguing with Harvard protesters in 1966
Photograph by Julian Levy
McNamara on campus, the “Cambridge conceit,” and a lyric puzzle
Treasure
In this Issue
Quan Le ’15 guides a biology lesson.
Photograph by Jill Anderson/Harvard Graduate School of Education
Harvard gets serious about training its graduates to teach in the classroom.
This portrait of Edward Holyoke, Harvard’s ninth president, painted ca. 1759-1761, was Copley’s first commission from the College.
Harvard University Portrait Collection (H6); photograph by Harvard Art Museums Imaging Department/©President and Fellows of Harvard College
When the College commissioned Copley
Illustration by Wesley Bedrosian
Harvesting innovations from around the world to improve American medical care
The poet as French legionnaire in 1916
Photograph: HUD 3567.219.2 no. 296, Harvard University Archives
Brief live of a premonitory poet: 1888-1916
A death-row inmate at San Quentin; Californians vote to end or keep the death penalty this November.
Photograph by Eric Risberg/Associated Press
Sibling scholars Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker seek to change how America thinks about capital punishment.
Letters
Readers comment on charter schools, final clubs, the doubly disadvantaged, veterans’ memories
President Faust on Harvard’s changing campus
When it pays to rethink a policy
Right Now
Illustration by Jeanine Murch
Research aims to discover whether happiness improves physical health.
Illustration by James O’Brien
New methods for manufacturing antibiotics aim to replenish a dwindling drug pipeline.
Harvard Squared
In the past, Moby-Dick marathon-readers gathered, fittingly, beneath whale bones to enjoy the epic tale.
Photograph courtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Herman Melville’s epic is “brought to life” in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Wreath-making activities with farm co-founder Jean Miner White (at right)
Photograph courtesy of Holly Hill Farm
Holly Hill Farm’s winter fair in Cohasset, Massachusetts
The Blue Hills Reservation offers treks, along with cross-country and downhill skiing.
Photograph by Lorna Ruby
Appalachian Mountain Club’s winter hiking in the Blue Hills
Shumachine, by “Steampunk guru” and guest curator Bruce Rosenbaum
Photograph by Matt Norris Photography/www.MGNorris.com
Brockton’s Fuller Craft Museum offers Steampunk art that celebrates the city’s shoe-manufacturing legacy.
John Harvard's Journal
Photograph by Jim Harrison
At Harvard Business School, contemporary art moves outdoors.
Investment losses and distributions for the budget reduce the assets by $1.9 billion.
Winthrop House is being renovated and enlarged.
Photograph by kris snibbe/hpac
Affording House renewal
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Cultural historian Matthew Wittmann makes a home at Harvard's performing-arts library.
Illustration by Mark Steele
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
MOOC technology in classroom use, for degrees, and more
Portrait of John Adams by Benjamin Blyth, ca. 1766
Courtesy of the Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society
What he learned and what he made of it
Laura Levis
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
The untimely death of a former colleague
George Q. Daley
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Medical School dean, humanities and sciences honorands, and an app for thriving at Harvard
Illustration by Francis Livingston
Learning to negotiate the backyard and the divine
New quarterback Joe Viviano ’17 unfurled passes with force and finesse, even as defenses had to account for his dangerous running ability. Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
Photograph courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications
A successful beginning of the football season
Kathy Delaney-Smith, the winningest coach in Ivy League basketball
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith lives up to, and inspires, with her motto.
Lavietes-to-be: the renovated entry façade, as it will appear by the beginning of the 2017-2018 season
rendering courtesy of Bruner/Cott & Associates, Inc.
Upgrading a venerable basketball arena
Montage
Working on his 2012 short film, Reckart hangs a puppet upside down from the set’s ceiling. “Head over Heels” took a 40-member crew some 15 months to make.
Photograph courtesy of Timothy Reckart
The director of Head Over Heels and The Star, on animation's different dimensions
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559), by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Crowd painting that attracts crowds.
Jean Valentine
Photograph by Tyler Flynn Dorholt
Poet Jean Valentine on literary companionship
A border, defended: Francesco di Giorgio’s elegant hilltop fortress of San Leo, Marche, Italy, ca. 1480
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Recent books with Harvard connections
In 2012, Ken Liu’s short story “The Paper Menagerie” swept science fiction’s highest honors: the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. He has won the Hugo as well for his translations of Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem (the first translated novel to win), and Hao Jingfang’s short story “Folding Beijing.”
Photograph by Lisa Tang Liu
Ken Liu’s hybrid fiction crosses oceans and galaxies.
James Kloppenberg conveys the evolution of democracy from early theorists through Tocqueville’s celebration, written some years before this beatific electoral scene, The Verdict of the People (1854-55), by George Caleb Bingham.
Image from the Bridgeman Art Library
Reviewing a masterwork on the past, and future, of democracy
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Turntables, headphones, a mixer, and his eclectic music collection prevail in Jace Clayton’s home “office.”
Photograph by Robert Adam Mayer; styling by Prellezo
In Uproot, Jace Clayton ’97 explores technological trends in music around the globe.
Plans to overhaul the Board of Overseers’ election procedures
Seven alumni are honored for volunteer College admissions work.
The College Pump
Defense secretary Robert McNamara arguing with Harvard protesters in 1966
Photograph by Julian Levy
McNamara on campus, the “Cambridge conceit,” and a lyric puzzle