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Graduate English Oration: "One Journey's End is Another's Beginning"
My maternal great-grandmother Dorenda said that she was born in the year peace was declared...
Commencement Address by President Lawrence H. Summers
On behalf of every student, faculty member, and every member of the staff of Harvard University...
2005 Commencement address by John Lithgow '67
Mr. President, faculty, graduates, families, and friends, good afternoon and thank you for the honor of addressing you all today...
Allston Options: Up for Discussion
Calling “effective transportation” the “most critical” of the issues Harvard faces as it plans for expansion into...
Moving On
Jonathan Gorham ’71 recently helped his mother move from a retirement community in Maine to an assisted-living apartment closer to where...
Thomas W. Lentz
In the early 1980s, when Thomas W. Lentz was earning a Ph.D. at Harvard by becoming an expert on Islamic art—Persian painting in...
Society's Casino
In the fall of 2001, Americans drastically revised their travel habits. “Driving went up, and flying went down,” says David Ropeik...
"More News to Come..."
John James Audubon described the stentorian voice of the ivory-billed woodpecker in his Ornithological Biography, prose descriptions of the...
Life at the Epicenter
Bioethicists like R. Alta Charo ’79 operate where scientific innovation butts up against cultural ethos. As a professor of law and...
Harvard Local,
In her Senior English Address, “Perfect Imperfection,” Alicia J. Menendez ’05, whose concentration was women, gender, and...
Honor Roll
Philip Fisher Howard Georgi Rose Licoln / Harvard News Office Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Margo I. Seltzer Lino Pertile...
Freud's Guesswork on Dreams
One of Sigmund Freud’s great complaints about his mistreatment in life was that although he won a literary award for his famous book The...