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Why Harvard Needs International Students
Global challenges demand global experiences
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...
The People's Epidemiologists
In the city of Boston—and everywhere else—wealth equals health. If you live in Beacon Hill’s Louisburg Square, which sits in the...
Rereading the Renaissance
The only thing most teachers and students of the humanities agree on, it often seems, is that these are troubled times for their field. For a...
by Adam Kirsch
Mary Ingraham Bunting
When a group of Radcliffe students in the early 1960s complained to Mary Ingraham Bunting about the Harvard English department’s...
Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments on display
At last, Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments has come up from its hiding place....
The Marketplace of Perceptions
Like all revolutions in thought, this one began with anomalies, strange facts, odd observations that the prevailing wisdom could not explain...
The Middle Class on the Precipice
During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure...
Samuel Williston
When Samuel Williston, A.B. 1882, LL.B.-A.M. ’88, died at the age of 101, Time magazine took notice, describing his enormous influence on...
Twigs Bent Left of Right
How did Franklin Delano Roosevelt ’04, born in 1882 to a privileged, aristocratic life in New York’s Hudson River Valley, become a...