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Illustration for Harvard Lampoon cover showing a Harvard-Yale football game rendered in the style of the famous Bayeux Tapestry

Football: The Tapestry

David C.K. McClelland’s famous Lampoon cover

by Craig Lambert

Photographic portrait of Virginia Woolf

Shakespeare’s Uncanny Presence

Marjorie Garber explores the bard’s influence on the Bloomsbury Group.

Anna Schwartz at U.S. Treasury Department 1982

Anna Jacobson Schwartz

Brief life of a pioneering economist: 1915-2012

by Jennifer Burns

Humorous illustration of Harvard Yard with Widener Library and University Hall; between the two buildings there is a swimming pool and people enjoying the pool.

Yesterday’s News

Courses in swimming pool management and table-waiting—with an eye toward summer employment

Legacies’ Legacy

Adapting admissions to new socioeconomic and political circumstances

Abstract photographs of colored lights, hands, and swirls

Curiosities: Lighting the World

Ellen Carey's pioneering photographs, New Britain Museum of American Art

by Nell Porter-Brown

An “Older Sister” to Combat Anemia

Alan Espinosa addresses a global health challenge.

by Nancy Walecki

Andrew Shtulman illustrates imagination with an image of children riding a cloud as if it were a horse.

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

The Academic Agenda

The installation symposiums

Illustration that plays on the grade A+ and the term Ai

AI in the Academy

Generative AI can enhance teaching and learning but augurs a shift to oral forms of student assessment.

by Jonathan Shaw

Pigskin Programs

The art of Harvard football

by Max J. Krupnick

Apollonia Poilâne standing in front of rows of fresh-baked loaves at her family's flagship bakery

Her Bread and Butter

A third-generation French baker on legacy loaves and the magic of baking

by Nell Porter-Brown