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Terence Davies captures Emily Dickinson's life and spirit in "A Quiet Passion"

In his film A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies illuminates Emily Dickinson’s daily life and eternal poetry.

by Sophia Nguyen

Shared Interest Group events during Harvard Reunion week

Shared Interest Group gatherings in Cambridge

Slow and Steady Wins the Pulitzer

David Fahrenthold ’00 will continue to hold President Trump accountable. 

by Oset Babür

Joe Biden will be Class Day speaker

The former vice president will address graduating seniors on May 24. 

Fahrenthold, Whitehead, and Desmond Win Pulitzer Prizes

Journalist, novelist, and social scientist honored

by Oset Babür

Charles River bridge lit up

The Charles River, lit

We Remember World War I

Firsthand accounts of Harvard men and women who lived through it, 100 years after the United States entered the Great War

by Adam Goodheart

Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Linguists’ search for the nature of speech, sign, and universal grammar

How linguists use sign languages to understand universal grammar

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard Undergraduate columnist on exclusive organizations

The Undergraduate wrestles with The Advocate’s exclusive comp process. 

by Lily Scherlis

Harvard reduces graduate-student admissions

Financial pressures force the faculty to trim doctoral admissions.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard's endowment-earnings gap

A state’s pension-plan problems highlight the endowment challenge to realizing Harvard’s goals.