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Debate elicits ideas from an apolitical, science-based call to action, to a lower-carbon-footprint endowment portfolio.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has a formal motion to divest from fossil-fuel production.
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Courtesy Harvard Allston Land CompanyFrom among three finalists, a partner is expected to be chosen by the end of December.
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Illustration courtesy of the Harvard GazetteA new center aims to bring cutting-edge medicines “from laboratory to approved therapy.”
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.
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The president announces a $5-million initiative.
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.
“Resetting the Table,” a new exhibit at the Peabody Museum, examines American food traditions.
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The group of protestors at its largest, before the arrival of police reinforcements.
Photograph by Kai-Lan OlsonStudent protestors for fossil-fuel divestment delay the second half of The Game.
Alumni share their moving stories through the first interest-group “class report.”
Results from the second campus survey of sexual misconduct show that sexual assault and harassment remain serious problems at institutions of higher education nationwide.
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Jayson Toweh and Thea Sebastian, petitioners for the Board of Overseers ballot on the Harvard Forward slate
Photograph by Harvard Magazine/JCAn emerging, expansive view of socially responsive endowment investments
Alumni share their moving stories through the first interest-group “class report.”
Young alumni and others advance an agenda of governance change and divestment from fossil-fuel investments.
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Local artisans specializing in bespoke holiday treasures
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(1 of 7) Sheila Jordan performs with the Yoko Miwa Trio at The Mad Monkfish, in Cambridge.Photograph by Janice Tsai
A look at the live-music scene: traditional trios to experimental student performers
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(1 of 3 ) Working Woman
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Fatimah Tuggar explores artisanship and technology, at the Davis Museum
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David Hemenway advocates a pragmatic, public-health-based approach to gun control.
Lawrence S. Bacow
President Bacow describes the potential for Harvard’s new Allston campus to benefit both gown and town.
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(1 of 14) Sporting staid bowlers, early Harvard Band members pose for a formal portrait.Courtesy of the Harvard University Band
The Harvard Band celebrates a century.
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(1 of 12) Adál Maldonado’s The Passport, 1995, from the series The Spirit Republic of Puerto Rico.Transfer from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Gift of the artist, 2012.178. © ADзL. Image courtesy of Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum
The ubiquity of movement across man-made borders
A.O. Scott at the Quad Cinema, New York City.
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Special thanks to The Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th St. New York , New York
A.O. Scott on watching and reviewing a lot of movies
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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 CrimsonHarvard falls to Yale in The Game 2019.
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 CrimsonAnother loss for the hapless Crimson
Batch Catch: Having beaten Columbia's Fara'ad McCombs, Crimson junior wide receiver James Batch prepares to reel in a first-quarter touchdown pass.
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Another crushing defeat for Harvard.
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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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Who’ll carry the traditionalists’ Little Red Flag?
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(1 of 14) Sporting staid bowlers, early Harvard Band members pose for a formal portrait.Courtesy of the Harvard University Band
The Harvard Band celebrates a century.
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March-April 2018
Letters
Endowment taxes, final clubs, Chapter and Verse
President Drew Faust on Allston
Ideas from Harvard’s presidential search
The College Pump
Photographs by Lydia Carmichael
Big names on campus, how to install a president, football at Fenway
Treasure
Photograph courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Manuscript acquired with assistance from the B.H. Breslauer Foundation
Rare and beautiful, then and now: a Byzantine codex at Dumbarton Oaks
In this Issue
Tom Nichols
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Tom Nichols dissects the dangerous antipathy to expertise.
Alain Locke in an undated photograph
Photograph courtesy of Moorland-Spingarn Research Center/Howard University
Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization
Boston Children’s Hospital physician-in-chief Mary Ellen Avery at work in the mid 1970s
Photograph copyright Georgia Litwack
Brief life of a groundbreaking neonatologist: 1927-2011
At Indigo Ag’s Charlestown headquarters, technicians track plant growth,…
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Abundant food and better than ever?
Letters
Endowment taxes, final clubs, Chapter and Verse
President Drew Faust on Allston
Ideas from Harvard’s presidential search
Right Now
Illustration by Dan Page
Observations from Twitter prove that even the smallest news outlets can shape public opinion.
Illustration by Daniel Baxter
Research with infants suggests the ability to understand abstract relationships.
Illustration by Marina Micheli
Mate choice is often controlled by genetics, but sometimes culture plays a role.
Harvard Squared
April’s Little Poland Festival
Courtesy of the Little Poland Festival, New Britain, Connecticut
New Britain’s “Little Poland” and museum of American art
A flyer Gorey illustrated for a 1952 Poets' Theatre performance.
Edward Gorey/ Announcement for The Poets’ Theatre performance in Fogg Museum Court, May, 1952/ Offset lithography on paper, 5 1/2 x 14 in./©The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust
Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum
Erica Viscio, a.k.a. “Maul,” slams by opponents on the track.
Photograph by Steve Jurkovic
Harvard ties to the increasingly popular, rigorous sport
Robots at the MIT Museum
Photograph courtesy of the Cambridge Science Festival
Engage in “hands-on, creative activities directly with scientists.”
Broadsheet is on Kirkland Street in Cambridge.
Photographs by Jane Messinger
An antidote to Starbucksification?
John Harvard's Journal
Klarman Hall
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Harvard Business School’s evolving campus
The new tax law boosts financial pressures.
The Corporation decides.
Makeda Best
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Focusing on the Harvard Art Museums’ new photography curator
Allston development, advanced standing, Medical School monies
Tamara Elliott Rogers
Photograph by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Development leader departs, undergraduate ed dean steps down, and more
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Grad-student unionization, sexual assault, and more
Seth Towns ’20 is one of the team’s most versatile offensive threats.
Photograph by Eric Miller/Harvard Athletic Communications
A young men’s basketball team battles inconsistency.
Jenny Allard
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Under coach Jenny Allard, Crimson players come alive together.
Montage
Theresa McCulla in the archives center of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Photograph by T.J. Kirkpatrick
A historian tracks the craft-beer boom, and the evolution of American taste.
Nell Scovell
Photograph by Robert Trachtenberg
TV writer Nell Scovell looks back on Just the Funny Parts.
Silhouette by Joseph Cranston Jones from The Tree Named John by John B. Sale, The University of North Carolina Press, 1929
The power and legacy of African-American folktales
While at the CCVA, Renée Green set up grids of images for Code Survey ...
Courtesy of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts/Harvard University/Renée Green
Renée Green’s exhibition “Within Living Memory” closes her Harvard residency.
The Pursuit (1771-72), from Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s series The Pursuit of Love, designed for a chateau belonging to Mme. Du Barry, mistress of Louis XV
Painting from Bridgeman Art Library
Recent books with Harvard connections
Illustration by Peter Horvath
Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now defends science from modern-day foes.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Erica Walker
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Erica Walker aims to put “tools and data into the hands of people who can use it.”
A celebration of significant alumni and shared interest groups
The official 2018 slates
Rapp focused on war crimes and criminals as U.S. ambassador-at-large.
Courtesy of United States Mission Geneva/Wikimedia/Creative Commons
Stephen J. Rapp seeks justice for Syrian victims of war crimes.
The College Pump
Photographs by Lydia Carmichael
Big names on campus, how to install a president, football at Fenway
Treasure
Photograph courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Manuscript acquired with assistance from the B.H. Breslauer Foundation
Rare and beautiful, then and now: a Byzantine codex at Dumbarton Oaks