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Meet Harvard’s Undergraduate Authors
Harvard Magazine Summer Fellow Ryan Doan-Nguyen has been tackling a variety of writing assignments for the magazine. Here, he interviews four fellow students who have tackled writing projects of their own—publishing their first books. Nicole Austen ’25: …
Modern and Historic
More than 500 people turned out in June for the inaugural gala picnic at Philip Johnson’s Glass House , in New Canaan, Connecticut. The long-awaited event raised $750,000 for further preservation of the most celebrated modern house in the Northeast. …
Issue: September-October 2007
An “Oracle of Aqua”
“Ours is a society of sensual eunuchs, impotent to the callings of the wildness within and as a result, the pull of that which resides outside,” writes Robert Lawrence France in his book Deep Immersion: The Experience of Water . “Transcending our minds, …
Issue: January-February 2007
Extracurriculars
Enjoy a range of offerings in and around Harvard Square this winter, from German folk dancing, Christmas carols, and a Da de los Muertos festival to contemporary Chinese art, French documentaries, and an exhibit on arthropods. Seasonal Exhibitions Nature …
Issue: November-December 2006
Surprise Endings
It was the championship season that wasn’t. Heavily favored to retain the Ivy League title, the football team rolled over its first five opponents, outscoring them 205-67. Then came the October Surprise. In a calamitous fourth quarter at Princeton, …
Issue: January-February 2013
An Authentic Act
It seemed an inconsequential moment on what had been a momentous day: late on a Saturday in mid January, women’s basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith ( profiled here ) stood outside her team’s locker room in Lavietes Pavilion with a basketball in her …
Self-Fashioning in Society and Solitude
Editor’s note: Each spring term since 2008, Hobbs professor of cognition and education Howard E. Gardner and Pforzheimer professor of teaching and learning Richard J. Light —in cooperation with the Freshman Dean’s Office and a group of facilitators—have …
Issue: September-October 2013
What It Means to Be OK
The doctor asked the man to tell her what he remembered, and so he took a breath and began to speak. In the months since he’d left the intensive-care unit where he nearly died, he had been over these events again and again, searching his own memory and …
Issue: January-February 2019
Football 2018: Harvard 45, Yale 27
The 135th playing of The Game on Saturday at Fenway Park had a flyover, fireworks, memories, controversy, second-guessing, at least one dignitary, a dastardly digit, trickeration, inspiration, heartbreak and (probably) the first mass chorus of “Sweet …
Faculty Diversity
When alumni, after a long absence, stroll through Harvard Yard or return to any other university campus, two questions usually come to mind: "What's different?" and "What's the same?" Even a casual observer visiting alma mater for the first time in 30 …
Issue: March-April 2002
Tracy K. Smith's Speech
(Speech published as prepared for delivery) Good afternoon, and thank you. It’s a pleasure and an honor to be present with you here today. One week after Commencement, at the end of a season when so much work has been completed, and presented and …
Code Is Law
Every age has its potential regulator, its threat to liberty. Our founders feared a newly empowered federal government; the Constitution is written against that fear. John Stuart Mill worried about the regulation by social norms in nineteenth-century …
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Commencement Address
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Harvard Commencement Speech, May 26, 2022 (As prepared for delivery) E oku manukura, nga pou haemata o te ngahere. Te Piko o Te Mahuri, tera te tipu o te rakau. E tipu, e rea, ka puta, ka ora. Tena koutou katoa. …
President Maia Sandu's Speech
Dear Dean Elmendorf, Distinguished faculty, Dear graduates, It’s a big honor for me to address you at the end of this amazing Kennedy School experience and at the start of your next fascinating journey. Fourteen years ago, when I got my …
Bryan Stevenson on the Shadow of White Supremacy
The audience could sense where the story was going almost as soon as Bryan Stevenson began telling it. Two black children in the barely desegregated South, hurtling with giddy, unguarded elation toward their first swim in a pool that until recently had …