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Photograph by Mancala/WikipediaStudents urge closer attention to care on campus this fall.
Federal visa restrictions will prevent freshman international students from living in the United States.
The annual report details administrators’ and endowment investment managers’ compensation.
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Paul Reville
Courtesy of the Education Redesign LabA conversation on the crisis and its outcomes with the Graduate School of Education’s Paul Reville
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The U.S. Army's 24th Infantry Regiment, an African-American regiment, arriving at Camp Wikoff in Montauk, New York, 1898
Roosevelt Class No. 560.3, Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard UniversityA Houghton Library project to digitize thousands of African-American records and artifacts
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Photograph by Mancala/WikipediaStudents urge closer attention to care on campus this fall.
Attack U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement directive
Facing legal challenges, the University does away with its controversial regulations on final clubs, fraternities, and sororities.
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Philip Caruso, J.D-M.B.A '19, helped coordinate the military's response to COVID-19 in New York.
Photo courtesy of Philip CarusoHarvard affiliates aid the Defense Department's response to COVID-19 in New York.
Harvard Magazine’s coverage of the University’s expanding global reach
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How to plan your staycation summer
Sofra's fresh-baked raspberry-rose jam turnovers
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Cambridge’s Sofra Bakery & Café feeds sheltering crowds.
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(1 of 4) Crabapple specimens, with views of Boston, on Peters HillPhotograph by Jon Hetman/Courtesy of the Arnold Arboretum
Summertime at the Arnold Arboretum
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A statue of John C. Calhoun is removed on June 24 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The rise and fall of Charleston’s John C. Calhoun statue, a monument to white supremacy
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The U.S. Army's 24th Infantry Regiment, an African-American regiment, arriving at Camp Wikoff in Montauk, New York, 1898
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Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
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The league becomes first in Division I to scrap fall competition.
Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
Georgina Milne tucks and flips, helping Harvard defeat Brown.
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Diver Georgina Milne pictures a post-pandemic return.
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Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital ArchivesFall semester interrupted, a century ago
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July-August 2020
(Click on arrow at right to view full image) No true likeness of Callimachus is known to exist, but the Libyan-born poet probably resembled the men whose faces appear on the Hellenistic coffins unearthed in Fayum, Egypt, including this one.
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Brief life (via Platonic dialogue) of a multifaceted poet: c. 310 B.C.E. - c. 240 B.C.E.
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Elizabeth Hinton
Photograph by Stu RosnerColor and Incarceration
Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.
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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