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In 1956, John F. Kennedy urged politicians and intellectuals to work together
In 1956, the future president sought to persuade intellectuals and politicians to work better together.
In the 1968 Class Day speech, Coretta Scott King praised student activism
Two months after her husband’s murder, the civil-rights leader’s widow delivered the 1968 Class Day speech.
Walter Cronkite issued a challenge to the class of 1980
"Pick up your cudgels and man (and woman) the barricades" against overpopulation, pollution, natural-resource depletion, and nuclear proliferation, he advised.
In his 1968 Commencement speech, Iran's shah proposed a Universal Welfare Legion
Unruffled by protesters, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi suggested a way to remove the "roots of the curses that afflict humanity" in his 1968 speech.
Multiple myeloma research crusader Kathy Giusti to speak at HBS Class Day
The founder of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation will speak at Harvard Business School Class Day.
Joyce Carol Oates to speak, Henri Cole to read at 2011 Phi Beta Kappa ceremony
The author will speak, and the poet will read, on May 24.
6 Harvard faculty members among 72 new members of National Academy of Sciences
Honored for work in disciplines including economics, climate change, genomics, mathematics
Shared Interest Groups for Harvard alumni - Commencement & Reunion 2011
View and submit listings of Shared Interest Group events.
Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean reports a smaller deficit
Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael D. Smith reports a smaller deficit—and restores cookies to faculty meetings.
Bin Laden death echoes in Drew Faust's Jefferson Lecture, "Telling War Stories"
President Drew Faust's Jefferson Lecture takes on an unexpected timeliness.
Designing throughways for wildlife
A winning proposal to keep cars and critters apart
American studies scholar Lizabeth Cohen named Radcliffe Institute interim dean
The American studies professor will take office on July 1.