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Ice Cream and Vinegar

Seventeen authors, several of them Harvardians, reread a book or a poem (or the Sgt. Pepper lyrics) that impressed them in their youths and...

2005-2006 Ledecky Fellows

Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2005-2006 academic year will be junior John A. La Rue and senior...

Too Much Sunscreen?

For many summers, people have slathered and sprayed on sunscreens and fretted about SPF factors while scrambling to protect themselves from...

by Craig Lambert

Congo Report

The charismatic, maverick field anthropologist Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam ’25 moved to what was then the Belgian Congo in the 1930s to...

A Robust Decade at the Business School

Kim B. Clark’s move from Allston to Idaho—he became president of Brigham Young University-Idaho on August 1, in response to a call...

Wine: White or Red?

David Sinclair, associate professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, is often asked about sources for resveratrol. “The molecule...

Corporation member quits

Conrad K. Harper resigned from Harvard’s senior governing board on July 14...

Commencement 2005

Speech transcripts from Commencement 2005

Phi Beta Kappa Oration: "Iraq"

John Deutch, former CIA director delivers Phi Beta Kappa Oration

Class Day Speech by Tim Russert

So, this is Harvard. Look at all those scholars sitting out there...

Latin Salutatory: “Campus of Dreams”

Praeses Aestive, Decani, Professores, vos qui geritis et exercitis nostros manipulos Harvardianos...

Undergraduate English Oration: "Perfect Imperfection"

Four years ago many of us received letters inviting us to be part of a seemingly perfect world...