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The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
Seamus Heaney and Amartya Sen speak at Harvard Commencement in 2000
From the 2000 Commencement address
What I Read at War
...sed carmina tantum nostra valent, Lycida, tela inter Martia, quantum Chaonias dicunt aquila...
Your Friend, Fidel
Jorge I. Domínguez, Dillon professor of international affairs and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard...
With a Little Help from Harvard's Friends
On Saturday morning, May 13, the dull gray of the sky over Cambridge brightened the white dogwood beside the Faculty Club, colored more deeply...
"A Hazard of Good Fortune"
A few years ago, in this very theater, we began a major undertaking together, and we did so without knowing quite how, or perhaps even whether...
Core Curriculum
Technology and the transformation of identity, community, and commerce Moderator: Sherry Turkle '69, Ph.D. '76, professor of the...
Ken Miyata
When he died at the age of 32, Kenneth Ichiro Miyata, Ph.D. '80, was one of the most famous fly-fishermen in the world. But even those who had...
Swing Time
The sweet and cool harmonies of Duke Ellington's Mood Indigo: clarinet, muted trombone, and trumpet atop the swingy walking bass of the banjo...
John Knowles Paine
Harvard's first professor of music was born in Portland, Maine, where his father led the town band, owned the music store, and published music...
Picking Harvard's Pocket
The entrance strategy was simple. On Saturday afternoon, December 1, 1973, a visitor to the Fogg Art Museum, a man in his twenties, left a brown...