Features
Celebrating Integrity
Harvard passes a test of its values, yet challenges loom.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Power of Patience
Teaching students the value of deceleration and immersive attention
by Jennifer L. Roberts
![J.C. Buttre’s portrait, probably drawn when Everett ran for vice president on the Constitutional Union Party ticket in 1860, links him to Harvard and George Washington, one of his favorite subjects. (His lectures raised more than $100,000 to help purchase Mount Vernon [see <a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/05/granny-talk">“Granny Talk”</a>], and he wrote the entry on Washington for the 1860 <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica.</i>)](/sites/default/files/styles/mobile_teaser_wide/public/img/article/1013/nd13_page_047_01_.jpg.webp?itok=_fRKuRcM "Engraving by J.C. Buttre/Library of Congress")
Vita: Edward Everett
Brief life of a statesman-orator: 1794-1865
The Keystone XL Pipeline
Should the president approve construction?
The Urban Landscaper
Michael Van Valkenburgh helps lead a second great age of city-making.
by William S. Saunders
Learning, and Life, in the Houses
The singular character of the College’s residences, now in renewal
by Craig Lambert
Vita: Henry Beston Sheahan
Brief life of a nature writer in a machine age: 1888-1968
by John Nelson
Self-Fashioning in Society and Solitude
On crafting a liberal-arts education by reading the classics and shaping one's life course
by Nannerl O. Keohane
A Nearly Perfect Book
The poetry critic, the publisher, and the art of bookmaking in a digital era
by Nathan Heller
Life’s Beginnings
Studying how life bloomed on Earth—and might emerge elsewhere
by Courtney Humphries
Vita: Albert Bigelow
Brief life of an ardent pacifist: 1906-1993
by Steven Slosberg