Features

Why Harvard Needs International Students

Global challenges demand global experiences

by Fernando M. Reimers

An Education in Ethics

Last January 13, in the amphitheater of Aldrich Hall 107, Henry B. Reiling began taking his students through the quaint details of a real-estate...

by John S. Rosenberg

“The Grand Wake for Harvard Indifference”

At noon on November 16, 1938, some 500 Harvard and Radcliffe students jammed Emerson Hall to express their outrage at Kristallnacht, as the...

Summers in Summary

Lawrence H. Summers brought to the Harvard presidency prodigious energy and a penchant for framing the University’s future in visionary terms.

by John S. Rosenberg

Hervey White

Splendiferous in his purple Russian blouse, with shaggy hair and beard, Hervey White, A.B. 1894, helped transform a tiny village in the...

“Taming” the Rhine

David Blackbourn has an affection for fens and marshes, lush, low-lying polders and high moors of heath and bog. When he leaves his home in...

by Jonathan Shaw

Psychiatry by Prescription

By the time he reached his early thirties, James was a promising scientist who had all the makings of an academic star. He had earned a stream...

Fixing Foreign Policy

This essay is adapted from the 2005-2006 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture, delivered on April 24 under the sponsorship of the Radcliffe...

Governing Harvard

Harvard, founded in 1636, has by law been formally governed by a Board of Overseers since 1642, and by the Corporation since 1650. The last...

A Melting World

Photographs by David Arnold and H. Bradford Washburn The breathtaking aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers shot by H. Bradford...

by Jonathan Shaw

Fueling Our Future

Our demand for energy, on which we depend for health and prosperity, rises all the time: oil and natural gas to heat our homes; electricity for...

by Jonathan Shaw