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Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Photograph of John Fish

On YouTube, watch vlogger John Fish grow

On YouTube, watch John Fish grow.

by Jacob Sweet

Linda Liedel (at left), representing Germany in Spain’s 2019 La Manga Tournament, competes for the ball with a Danish rival.

Linda Liedel of Harvard women’s soccer

Linda Liedel ’21 always knew how good she could be.

by Jacob Sweet

Drawing of Alan Lomax singing in Harvard Yard

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

A colorful stack of beer cans against a blue wall

Creative Artistic Collaborations

Creative artistic collaborations

by Kara Baskin

Teenagers watch a television screen showing a glamorous actress smoking.

New addiction risks in the war on smoking

Two public-health veterans warn of new smoking risks, especially for the young.

by Jonathan Shaw

A photograph of an eighteenth-century, three-inch pocket globe in its open case

A pocket globe at the Harvard Archives

Ebenezer Storer’s pocket globe

by Jacob Sweet

Photograph of Dauphin Island, Alabama, after Hurricane Katrina, 2005, illustrating risks of coastal development as climate change progresses

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Updates on Peter Brand, Roland Fryer, the graduate-student union, and more

A coach cashiered, a professor sanctioned, an Allston update, and more

President Larry Bacow out for a run with students, August 28, 2018

Harvard president Lawrence S. Bacow’s first year

President Bacow assesses his inaugural year.

by John S. Rosenberg

Photo of the colonial-era Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts

Fairbanks House, Dedham, Massachusetts

Dedham’s Fairbanks House: “the oldest wood-frame structure still standing in North America”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Letters from our readers

Letters on family roots, Dani Rodrik, opioid associations, and more