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At Home with Harvard: Library Treasures
This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about climate change, racial justice, movies and …
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Speakers of Note The speaker at the Commencement afternoon exercises, on May 25, will be Mark Zuckerberg ’06, co-founder and CEO of Facebook. His appearance among the honorands and at the lectern follows by a decade that of Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. …
Issue: May-June 2017
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Computing and Humans Thank you for Harry R. Lewis’s “ Mechanical Intelligence and Counterfeit Humanity ” (July-August, page 38). I wish everyone who has or uses a computer would read it. We lost the game when we adopted the term “Artificial Intelligence.” …
Issue: September-October 2024
Faith through Film
Among a sea of black hats, Salvador Alexander Litvak ’87 sported a white fedora. His color palette was not the only thing setting him apart from the 92,000 revelers at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium who gathered in August 2012 to celebrate Jewish text …
Issue: May-June 2025
Harvard Cambridge Scholars
Four members of the College class of 2023 have won Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2023-24 academic year. Meredith Johns, of Winthrop House, a comparative study of religion concentrator with a secondary field in …
Issue: July-August 2023
“A Choice Not to Deal with Original Sin”
Speaking at Harvard Law School’s 2022 Class Day ceremonies on Wednesday, May 25, former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch ’81, J.D. ’84, said that justice—the fight for freedom—is something each generation must defend. She reminded the audience that …
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The University Brevia PH.D. MAGIC: Illustration by Rick Stromoski Each Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Bulletin features "BackTalk," a chance for students to blow off steam, humorously and anonymously, in response to an off-the-wall question. In …
"Lots of Reasonable 99c Lunches"
Found in this magazine’s basement: a sheaf of pages listing Cambridge and Boston restaurants from a guide for students that evidently dates from the early 1960s. Here are the greasy-spoons: Waldorf, Hayes-Bickford’s, Hazen’s, and Albiani’s. Old …
Issue: May-June 2006
Steeped
Americans sipping foamy sweet chai lattes from Starbucks or Dunkin’ probably don’t think of the tea tree originally discovered in Southeast Asia. They don’t picture the earliest spring leaves of the Camellia sinensis var . sinensis , hand-picked in the …
Issue: March-April 2022
Courtney B. Vance Named Harvard Alumni Day Speaker
Actor , producer, and writer Courtney B. Vance ’82 will be the featured speaker at the third annual Harvard Alumni Day, a University-wide celebration of alumni hosted by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). The event, which will take place on Friday, May …
Historical Record v. Trump
In May 1865 , Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America, snuck out of his tent wrapped in his wife’s shawl—right into the hands of Union soldiers. During the prior month, Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered, and …
On Commencements
Harvard’s Commencement guest speakers have delivered some memorable addresses, (and forgettable ones). But the oration at the Phi Beta Kappa literary exercises, on the Tuesday morning before degrees are conferred on Thursday, sets an intellectual tone for …
Issue: May-June 2022
The Fish in Harvard Square
In the middle of Harvard Square, with pedestrians bustling by, there’s a fish sitting in a bathtub. He’s patient, watching everything unfold from behind a window. His name is Septimus, and he’s a sculptural character within Tired Clichés , a solo …
Stellar Seniors
Each year, Harvard College grants degrees to some 1,600 students, each of whom possesses gifts and abilities that count in the wider world. The following profiles offer merely a sample of this year’s seniors, who—in the words of classmate Kwame …
Issue: May-June 2006
The Keystone XL Pipeline
Few domestic policy issues have prompted more controversy recently than whether to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Proponents contend that it would enhance access to Canadian oil, significantly increasing U.S. and North American energy security. Opponents …
Issue: November-December 2013