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Portrait of President Lawrence S. Bacow

Presiding during the Pandemic

President Bacow on pandemic and academic Harvard

by John S. Rosenberg

A Verdant Cultural Retreat

Boston’s Forest Hills Cemetery is a welcome respite from the world.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph from staging of Eurydice, opera by Matthew Aucoin

Music and Language, Reconciled

Matthew Aucoin on opera

by Thomas Forrest Kelly

Student photograph of Earl Brown in 1920, and baseball team photo with Brown in 1924

Earl Brown

Brief life of Harvard’s latest major league baseball player: 1903-1980

Drawing of Harvard Dental School giving John Harvard statue a dental check-up

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

illustration of a black employee working and eating at his desk while colleagues go out to lunch

Being Black at Work

Realizing the full potential of black employees

by Veronique Greenwood

John Harvard two-ounce, 56-cent stamp from 1986, honoring University’s 350th anniversary

Fancy Footwork

Engineering for runners, the John Harvard stamp, tweaking Dr. Oz

by Primus VI

Woodblock print based on The Tale of Genji

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Four polo players ride horses and one swings a mallet

Harvard Polo Up Close

Human (and horse) athletes ride through pandemic setbacks

by Nancy Walecki

Emily Oken's Studies on Nutrition During Pregnancy

Oken's path from archaeology to epidemiology

by Jacob Sweet

Letters from our readers

Legacies, football, knitting

Hands pouring steeped golden-colored tea from a ceramic pot

Steeped

A world of artisanal teas in Somerville

by Nell Porter-Brown