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Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Profile of Harvard Kennedy School historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination.

by Lydialyle Gibson

New deans, graduate student union, faculty diversity, and a final-club update

Two new deans, a graduate-student union, modest gains in faculty diversity, and a final-club update

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

President Drew Faust’s Harvard valedictory

President Faust’s Commencement afternoon valedictory address on hope and higher education

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Methuen Memorial Music Hall

Seasonal concerts at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall

by Nell Porter-Brown

The Language of Emotion

Developmental psychologists find a surprising relationship between age and emotional understanding.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard’s 2018 senior alumni

Seventy-seventh reunioners Evelyn Richmond and Theodore R. Barnett led the 2018 alumni parade.

Not “Mickey Mousing”: the rigors of accompanying silent films

Three pianists making silent film sing

by Sophia Nguyen

Fish overharvesting, and human health

A worldwide decline in wild saltwater-fish populations threatens subsistence fishermen and the communities they feed.

by Courtney Humphries

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Headlines from Harvard’s history

Harvard’s 2018 Latin Orator on Hogwarts

Phoebe Lakin ’18 invokes J.K. Rowling.

Heritage Museums & Gardens, in Sandwich, Massachusetts

Gardens, antique cars, and a carousel on Cape Cod

by Nell Porter-Brown