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Your Harvard 2026 Commencement Week Guide
College reunions and Alumni Day will take place the following week
Photograph by Jim Harrison
To see her on the fencing strip is to witness an almost terrifying release of aggression. With lightning speed, a blur of lunges, parries, and...
El-Erian for the Endowment
More than a name and face will change at Harvard Management Company (HMC), the investment organization for the University’s endowment...
Marc Shell
Marc Shell Photograph by Stu Rosner Marc Shell is Babbitt professor of comparative literature, a professor of English, a MacArthur...
An Unconstrained Curriculum
The College curriculum of the future has begun to come into focus, as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) this autumn started to discuss...
A Collage of Colleges
“Why should all of the creative and liberating ideas for liberal education be left to the small residential liberal arts colleges?&rdquo...
President and Polity
President Lawrence H. Summers e-mailed a multi-thousand-word “letter to the community” on November 7, subsequently published as a...
For Sciences and Art
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is in the throes of a major, multipurpose building boom, as shown in these autumn images. The site of...
Yesterday’s News
1911 Because more seniors wish to room in the Yard, the Corporation is likely to furnish the south entry of Thayer Hall with steam heat and...
Elsewhere
Since 2001, College students’ international experiences during their Harvard years—formal study abroad, research, work or public...
Growth Spurt, Growing Pains
From 603 full, associate, and assistant professors in 1999, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown to 700 as of this January—its...